Our sweet baby girl turned 4 months old today!!! The days are just flying by! Michael and I wake up each day excited to see what Charlotte has in store for us. As soon as she spots us in her crib, she just lights up with smiles. Who wouldn't want to wake up to that in the morning!? I still nurse her every 3 hours during the day, and she sleeps 7:30pm - 7:30am at night, sometimes waking up briefly around 5:00am if she can Houdini her way out of her swaddle. If she wakes up, we just wrap her up and get her back in her crib without nursing her. She is still wearing size 2 diapers, and mostly 3-6 month clothing (we've pulled out a few 6-9 months).
Her little personality is starting to come out, and she is so precious! She is also getting a little opinionated! Sweet baby girl gets a little difficult when you try to put her down for a nap or to sleep at night. Depending on how tired she is, it is either a few seconds or a couple of minutes. First, she fusses when you try to swaddle her, and then she arches her back like crazy when I rock her to sleep. Once she calms down and realizes that she is sleepy, she is absolutely fine! I am about to start trying to leave her unswaddled for naps, eventually stopping altogether. I still rock her to sleep (I know... big no-no!), so the next step will be to sleep train her so she can soothe herself to sleep. I am a little sad about that one because I look forward to rocking with her. It is so much fun, and she's still very snuggly!
She has started sitting in her BebePod, and she is doing very well. She still spits up in it almost every time! She is constantly babbling, and loves making sweet little sounds. After rolling over at 10 weeks, she decided to boycot showing off her new talent, and waited to show us again until she hit 14 weeks. She went through a little phase and stopped pushing up on her hands during tummy time. Instead, she would get her little knees under her bottom and face plant into the floor. Kind of sad, but super cute! Finally, she started doing her little mini push up again. Yay Charlotte! She really enjoys spending time on her tummy, and slowly turns in little circles if she is down there long enough. When she lays on her back, she acts like she's going to roll over onto her tummy, but she hasn't quite figured it out yet. Any day now! She loves to play with her little plastic chain links, her soft blocks, Chloe the Owl, and a few random rattles and stuffed animals. She wants her hands in her mouth all the time, but she gets a little confused... Instead of bringing her hands up to her mouth, she tries to bend down to her hands. It's pretty funny! She loves our hands/wrists/arms, but I have to say that she seems to prefer mine over Michael's... I think it has something to do with all the hair on Michael's arms!!! When she's on her back, she has started to pick up her head, and she likes us to grab her hands to pull her to a seated position. She also makes this funny throat clicking noise that I've always made. She still spits up a lot, but seems perfectly happy about it! Michael calls her our little typrewriter because her head is constantly moving from one side to the other... hence her little bald line on the back of her head. I call her my baby groundhog because she jumps up when I burp her over my shoulder. She is so adorable!
Here are a few moments from the past month:
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| We love it when Daddy comes home for lunch to see us! |
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| Reaching down to her toy |
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| Date night with Grammie and Papa |
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| Fun with Nana |
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| Trying out her jumper |
