Four months

Photos by Trisha Terry

Four months home means walking.
Four months home means knowing where the lollipops are hidden.
Four months home means Rose is now your very best friend in the world.
Four months home means at least a dozen English words.
Four months home means sleeping through the night (almost every night), and going to bed on your own.
Four months home means pointing to every face in the new family pictures and getting really excited to see your own.
Four months home means two surgeries and six casts (five leg, one arm) down, three surgeries and three more casts left to go.
Four months home means only one week (the first week) when you didn't spend most of the day in a brace or a cast.
Four months home means expressing preference for straws instead of sippy cups. And Mom's diet coke over anything else.
Four months home means peaches. Lots and lots of peaches.
Four months home means playing in the dishwasher.

Four months home means knowing what comes next in every scene of Monsters, Inc, Despicable Me, and Tangled.
Four months home means knowing the Gangnam Style dance.
Four months home means a pound a month of weight gain.
Four months home means you're still pretty skinny.
Four months home means chasing chickens in the yard.
Four months home means not much patience for the Ergo.
Four months home means loving nursery.
Four months home means splashing in the pool.
Four months home means cuddling with mom and tickle fights with dad.
Four months home means knowing that this home is your home, and this family is your family.
Four months home means it's been almost a whole year since we first saw your face.
Four months home, and we love you more with each passing day.