4 Months

Lorelei turned four months old last Sunday.  We were traveling back from Texas (more about that later...) that day, but Alan managed to snap a picture of our growing baby!

She is changing and growing everyday, and it's hard to keep up with all of the exciting new things that she's doing!

Here's what she's been up to:

• She's still a great eater!  We will start rice cereal very soon.  I'm glad that we've waited until 4 months.
• Not a good napper, but she's not very fussy without a nap...  I'm just letting this one go!  
• Generally, very happy and easy-going.
• She smiles and gurgles a TON these days.  So sweet!
• She still loves her activity mat!  She spends alot of time playing and grabbing at her toys.
• She rolled over!!!!  She rolls from back to stomach, and she's really proud of herself!
• Loves her hands, and is constantly putting them in her mouth.
• She's trying to suck her thumb... NOOOO!
• She takes a pacifier when she wants to.
• She moved upstairs to her bedroom, and she's doing really good!  (This was a huge milestone for her mother.  I had a hard time with this transition.)  I may have cried...
• She's still sleeping pretty good through the night, but she's been waking around 4:30am.  She'll fuss, but she can usually hold off to eat until about 6:00.  I think that this may change once she starts rice cereal.
• She gets really sleepy around 7:45, but we are learning to keep her awake until 8:30 or so.  She sleeps longer, if we do.  Her sign that she's getting tired is that she'll put her hands over her face and eyes.  It's adorable! 
• She outgrew her infant bath sponge, so she's moved to her sling bathtub.  She loves her bath time!
• And she's an excellent traveler!  We took our first long-distance trip, and she was a total trooper.  She slept great every night in her pack and play.  She rode in her car seat like a doll baby and hardly made a peep.  She let everyone hold her and pass her around (we had a family wedding, so she was around lots of new people).  And we stayed in a hotel for a night, which didn't phase her in the least.  We had a great trip!
•  She's wearing 3 mos. size clothes and larger.
•  She wears a size 1 diaper.

Her stats from her 4 Month check up-

• Weight -13 lbs., 6 oz.
•  Height - 2 ft. 0.5 in.
• Head Circumference - 39.5 cm.