The little beet had a doctors appointment for his four month shots today. Knowing how difficult it was (for me) last time, Steve got off work early and came too. Will actually wasn't too bad at the doctors or right after, but he did seem to still be in quite a bit of pain, so we gave him some infant Tylenol to help. I'm not sure if it bothered his tummy or if something else was going on, because he started screaming as loud as he could and didn't stop for a good 30 to 45 minutes. Definitely not the norm for him. And he didn't really seem to have much problems last time after we left the doctors. I thought maybe his band-aids were pulling on his skin, so I carefully took them off, using Vaseline to pull back the edges without hurting him. It worked; he didn't cry the whole time I was doing that (I'm gonna have to remember that trick for me, too). But, just a few minutes later, he was back to screaming. Now I understand what it's like (albeit briefly) to have a colicky baby. Nothing would soothe him. Finally we managed to get him to sleep, although I think it had more to do with how long he'd been crying and he was just plain worn out. None of the shot sites are puffy or red like he was having an allergic reaction or anything. Rather odd, I must say. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of that performance anytime soon. I felt so helpless.

On the plus side, the doc said that he didn't hear any trace of a heart murmur anymore (hooray!). I asked him about Will's habit of sleeping through the night and needing to eat about every hour during the day and only catnapping. He said he's just a grazer and it's nothing to worry about. Our son, the cow. Well, I guess he'd be more like a calf, since I claim the title of cow since I make so much milk. The last time we had him weighed and measured (two months ago) he was 25 inches long and weighed 10.2 lbs. This time he's 28 1/2 inches long and weighs 13.9 pounds. So, as the doctor put it, he's "going in the right direction." Well, he sure isn't going to get shorter!

Steve has not applied for Portland yet, simply because the opening has not been posted yet. He knows it's going to be because they emailed him to see if he'd be interested. That sounds more exciting than it is; they email all the interns to see how much interest there is before they post it so they know if they should open it just to the NWS employees or anybody. So we'll keep our fingers crossed about the whole thing for awhile yet.