Exploring at 4 months old

I'm back! After a long break to move my family to England I have started the blog back up. Let's get to it shall we? 

Here are some activities and helpful hints in understanding your 4 month old.

Floor time

Spend time with your baby on the floor. They will learn all about the floor and its contents over the next couple months and I'm sure they will love when you get down at their level, especially to play. This will also help them feel comfortable as they learn to roll. 

Play

Help your baby explore sounds, colors, and work on hand eye coordination with rattles, crinkled up paper (I don't know what it is about plain white paper but babies love it!), and stuffed animals. 

You can also play a game called "Can you top this?" from babycenter.com. Try on different "hats" whether it be an actual hat, a cooking pot, a pair of leggings, a clean diaper, really anything and ask your baby, "Do you like my hat?" (Does that remind anyone else of the book Go Dogs, Go!?) your baby will think it's pretty funny and your other kiddos can get in on it too! 

Song

This post's song is not a lullaby but a just a regular song to help in stressful times.  My little guy hates getting clothes on and off so in order to help me keep my cool and both of us to stay happy I like to sing "Once There was a Snowman" as I dress and undress him.  I've found that if I have a go to song during stressful times that I can keep us both calm longer.

Once There was a Snowman

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Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman
Once there was a snowman tall, tall, tall (You get taller as you say tall, tall, tall)
In the sun he melted, melted, melted (You start to get smaller as you "melt")
In the sun he melted small, small, small.

For the tune click here.