Grow Baby Grow {Drew} - 4 Months

Drew Baby, you are another month older and another month more adorable and wonderful. Your personality is starting to develop, and I could eat you up more and more every day. You are such a little lady now! A lot developmentally has happened this month too - you are growing up so fast, and I love every minute of it! Well, maybe not the minutes where we are hanging out at 12:00 AM and 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. {grin}

Stats:
Weight: 13 lbs, 7 ozs {25-50%**}
Length: 24 5/8" {50-75%}
Head: 42.1 cm {90-95%}
Diapers: Size 2 in disposables & as tight as I can get them in cloth
Clothing size: 3-6 months in everything

**Just like her brother, born big and then drops percentiles until I have a skinny kiddo! I don't understand why they torment me by making me push out 9 pound babies if they are going to be string beans!!

*You found your feet this month. They haven't quite made it into your mouth, but you love to hold them.

*You got your first black eye when Brother dropped my phone on your face. You didn't like that one bit. I doubt it will be the last black eye he inflicts upon you.
*You are a rolling machine. You rolled one direction at the beginning of the month (back to tummy) and did it for days...and then promptly stopped. You started again in the other direction Monday. Silly girl.
*You are completely unswaddled at all times and sleeping in a sleep sack. Bedtime is between 7:00 and 7:30. You get up 1 or 2 times most nights...occasionally (rarely) you sleep THROUGH the night. I love those nights. Some nights you must miss me even though we are together ALL day and you get up lots. Usually around 6:00 you end up in our bed and we side-lying nurse and doze until Brother wakes us up.
*Naps didn't get better this month. I did a little nap training last week but a cold interrupted us. We'll start again soon. We have to get over this hurdle before daycare. Sometimes you roll onto your side. Precious.

*WE BEAT THRUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*You are giggling but are very stingy with those giggles. I try so hard every day to get you to laugh, but I'm not often rewarded.
*You chew your hands and fingers. I keep thinking you are going to be a thumb sucker...but so far you only occasionally get your thumb in there. I guess time will tell!
*You have started holding your left ear {your big flappy one, hee hee}.
*You will grab stuff if it is near your hands but haven't really reached for anything yet. Anything in your hands {like Sofie} end up in your mouth. Love this phase!

*Reflux continues to get so much better. Some days you don't spit up at all but some aren't quite so good. Hopefully we will be done with that soon!

Firsts:
-First time rolling over {April 4}
-First time grabbing feet {April 13}

Baby Gurl, you are amazing. I can't wait to see what the future holds for you and for our family. I have less than a month left on maternity leave which makes me want to sob when I think about it. I plan to soak up every minute we have left!

And randomly...this is my 1,000th post!!! 

A Reminder

Day 5 of Blog Every Day in May: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends.

I'm going to put a little spin on today's topic. I love reading blogs. It is one of my favorite pasttimes, and I wonder sometimes what I did with the time I spend blogging before there were blogs? 

But for the most part it's fun fluff. Everyone writes about what they want to {usually the good}: I get to see cute outfits, adorable kids, recipes that look yummy that I know I'll never cook. Very rarely does a blog have a true impact on my life. One has, and she doesn't even blog anymore...although I wish she did.

Kristen Plauschinat was my sister's best friend for a long part of our childhood. I have known Kristen for over 20 years. Are we close? No. But we do have a lot of shared memories. A little over 2 years ago, Kristen's daughter, Jordan, passed away from cancer before she even reached her second birthday. Kristen blogged about their experience (what I can only imagine to be a journey through hell). Since then she and her husband have had 2 more adorable girls, Harper and Ellison. Even though she doesn't blog anymore, I will never take her blog off my sidebar because every time I see her blog name, I think of Jordan...a little girl I never met...but a little girl who reminds me every day that life is short. When I see her blog, it reminds me to not take my children, or the time we have together, for granted. 

Speaking of my children, come back this afternoon to see Drew's 4 month update. {grin}