You are four months old.
This seems impossible. You are growing too fast and I just want to make time stop! You are the sweetest, most content baby in the entire universe and you make everyone around you smile.
Your fourth month was a busy one, here are some of the highlights!
Growth:
- You weigh 15lbs and 2 oz (70%) and are 25 inches long (73%). Perfectly proportioned, well except your head. Apparently you have a large head. Its in the 99th percentile, it doesn't look that big to me! But we can blame this on your dad!
- At your 4 month appointment, you had a terrible ear infection! I had no clue, you did not fuss or cry or complain one time! Well .... except for when you screamed in the car for 45 straight min on the way home from Fort Gibson, hindsight is 20/20. When we were 2 miles from the house, you stopped and fell asleep. Madison said, Mom all of the crying made me so tired! She tried the entire time to make you happy, but nothing worked :(
- You have found your tongue, it is it long! You love to suck on your hands constantly and there is drool everywhere!
- You have also found you thumb and seem to be a fan of sucking it. I keep trying to stick a paci in your mouth instead, but I will find you after nap with your thumb in your mouth instead. I have to admit, it is pretty stinking cute!
- You are full out laughing. It is one of the sweetest sounds in the world. You are extremely ticklish under your arm/rib area and you will just laugh and laugh.
Eating:
- You are still sticking to your every three hour schedule and eat exactly 6 times a day. Not one more, not one less. 6 is the magic number to get you to sleep through the night! I usually dream feed you around 10 pm and then I get to see your sweet little face around 8am.
- You are pretty quick to eat, but I am not sure you have figured out how to stop when you are full! You spit up very often, and sometimes large amounts and I think its due to over eating. It doesn't seem to bother you, so we just change your clothes and move on. Your dad on the other hand it bothers, apparently spit-up is his kryptonite. The littlest amount and he practically throws you at me and starts undressing himself.
Sleeping:
- You take about 3-4 naps a day, anywhere from 45 min to 3 hours. Depends on the day and what all we have been doing.
- You DO NOT like to sleep in the car, so if we are out and about in the mornings, you will take a long nap in the afternoon. You are pretty flexible when it comes to this.
- You go to bed around 8pm and sleep until 8am, with one dream feeding around 10pm. You are a good sleeper! Maybe once a week or every 10 days you remind me you are only four months old and get up around 4 to eat, but you go right back to sleep. This I can handle.
- You take most of your naps in your swing. I think it helps to drown out the craziness that is going on in the house while you are trying to sleep.
- At night time, you sleep in your crib all night. You still love to be swaddled but usually wiggle out by the morning. You also wiggle from one end of the bed to the other. And when you wake up, you don't wake up mad, you just play and talk to yourself and give me the BIGGEST smile ever when I come to get you up!
Activities:
-We celebrated your sisters 5th birthday. You attended the party as Princess Aurora. ADORABLE.
- We celebrated Gaga's birthday
- Easter bunny brought you a basket full of goodies.
- We made bunny cakes, mom made yours this year, next year you will get to participate.
- We celebrated Easter with of course matching dresses. You however stuck your tongue out during every picture I tried to take!
- You started sitting up more and enjoy playing in your bouncer.
You are the best baby ever, and I wish I could freeze time, but I can't. So I am going to enjoy every snuggle I can get while you are little.
Love you to the moon and back,
Mommy
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