Happy Birthday to you!!

My teeny tiny baby boy turned 4 months yesterday. So to celebrate, I brought him today for his 4 month injections and a hip x-ray! Hooray!! I'm the greatest mother ever. He was very good - he sat on my lap while he was getting the injections. For the first one, he just looked at the nurse with interest, he didn't cry at all. The nurse was a bit of a pro, actually, she had it in and out so fast I don't think he even noticed. I don't know what sort of horrendous juice they put in the second one, though, the men c one.. he cried with that, alright. Not as bad as the last time, though. I managed to stop him by distracting him with a toy elephant. Last time he woke the dead in a 50 mile radius with his screeching. I brought him for a hip x-ray then just to make sure he REALLY knew who was boss. He actually loved that - he got to take his pants off, and there is nothing that child likes more than taking his pants off. Taking his pants off and getting his photo taken all at once, sure he was in heaven. He didn't even pee or anything!! The waiting room was pretty funny.. he was all fretting and fussing, and I took him out of his pushchair and took the bottle out of his changing bag - the very second he saw it, he got all excited and started saying "huh huh huh huh".. then he started devouring. Everyone in the waiting room was laughing at the poor little fella..

I felt bad, of course, for making him get those nasty injections, so we nipped into town then and bought him some roll-a-rounds.. little plastic balls with swinging animals in them. They went down a treat, apparantly they're delicious, but its a little frustrating when you can't get the whole thing in your mouth. This also led to an abundance of jokes (his balls dropped, eating his balls, etc...). Funnily enough, it never grows tiresome. I don't really know who has a more mature sense of humour, him or me.

I've given up the pretence and put 6-9 month clothes on him.. They're long, but at least they aren't cutting off the blood supply to the child's legs. I don't know if its that he is huge or children's clothing sizes are all wrong, but 3-6 month clothes are ridiculously small. He's going to overtake his daddy soon. I would say me, but come on, he's not THAT big!!