Wow, It's Already Been Four Months!

Briggs' 4 month anniversary here on Earth was Thursday. On Friday Mark took him for his 4 month well check and shots. He weighs 15.1 pounds and he is 26 inches long. His weight is in the 60th percentile and his length is in the 90th percentile. His head circumference is 43cm and that is in the 75th percentile.
He has 2 teeth coming in, or so the doctor says. We can't see them but he has been drooling excessively for nearly 2 months and he chews on his fingers and bottle nipples all the time. Yesterday he started rubbing his right ear. I feel so bad for the little guy. Luckily he was only fussy one day and other than that, he has been completely normal so hopefully he isn't too uncomfortable and he will continue being his easy going self.
He still takes 3 two hour naps a day and we have to wake him up from each of his naps most days. He eats 6 ounces for his 1st bottle of the day at 7:30am then every 3 hours after that until 4:30 he eats 5 ounces. At 6:45 (just after his bath) he eats 3-4ounces then at 10pm he gets 5 ounces. We are in the process of dropping the 10pm feeding. He started rice cereal on Friday. He did ok with it. I put what he didn't eat in his bottle for him to drink just after his bath. Last night he wanted nothing to do with the rice cereal. I ended up just making him a 4 ounce bottle and putting the cereal in it. We went to the mall after his bath to hang out with Christian and Deena and then went to Chili's for dinner. Brigham was pretty distracted by everything at the mall but we were able to get him to drink most of his bottle. We are probably just going to put the cereal in his 6:45pm bottle for the next week or so in hopes that he can get used to the thicker consistency/texture then try feeding him with a spoon again.

His first bite of rice cereal
After his first cereal experience


Although I love the 10pm feeding, we are hoping that eating the rice cereal before bed will allow us to drop this feeding. I am assuming that this feeding will be eliminated in the next week.
Briggs is also developing his motor skills. He grabs at the toys on his activity mat and also at the toys that strap to his car seat. I love hearing him play with them while we drive down the road. He used to always go to sleep in the car but now he stays awake a lot of the time. We love the little so much.
School is going well for Mark and I. I start teaching on Tuesday which I am excited and nervous about. I'm mostly nervous because I know it won't be very smooth at first and my teacher will be watching everything I do at first and that is always nerve racking. I think after the first week I won't be nervous anymore though. I am also only teaching 1 subject at a time and every 2 weeks, I will pick up a new subject so it should be a very easy transition into teaching full time.
Mark has really stepped up since I started back to school. He gets up with Briggs every morning. He has said that now that he does more for him, he worries about him more when he is away. Mark has called me a few times just to check on Brigham which never really happened before. It's really sweet. I love seeing Mark with his son. He is so loving and caring.