4 Months of Giggles

My little man is 4 months old now unbelievably. He has to be one of the happiest babies ever. So chill and content as long as he's in the same room as his crazy brother and parents. Benji's been rolling over for about a month now and scoots around pretty good too - if we stick him on a blanket and he'll have rolled or scooted off within a matter of seconds. Always ready to be off. I think he's going to be a typical younger brother in that respect.

Benji also thinks he can already sit up (which you can see here that he's only leaning slightly against the couch). But usually he just ends up doing a face-plant.

As for Benji's heart problems, things have not been going as we would have liked. At his 4 month appointment he weighed only 10 lbs 6 oz (which was a pound less than the two weeks before). So his cardiologist put him on yet another medicine and when we went back on Monday he was back up to 11 lbs. Unfortunately, he still isn't growing at the rate he needs to be able to outgrow the hole in his heart. So now our next step is surgery. It's not something we are going into lightly but we just want our little man to be able to breathe easier and grow like he should. Frankly we want to get this fixed before flu season hits because even a small cold could put him in the hospital with his current lung/heart difficulties. We'll be meeting with a cardiac surgeon in the next couple of weeks to determine the date of the procedure. To say we're a little nervous would be an understatement but we really just want our little boy healthy.