Well, my little gal is over 4 months old now. I'd like to make sure I document a bit during this short infant time. I know it sounds like a cliche, but I don't know where the time has gone. She's growing so fast!
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| Newly born |
She had her four month checkup with the doctor last week and weighed in at 12 pounds 12 ounces and measured 26 inches. That puts her in the 10th-25th percentile for weight and the 90th-95th percentile for height. This has made clothing sizes a little hard because she's too long for 3 month clothes, but doesn't fill out 6 month clothes very well. But, she's got so many cute clothes (thanks to the generous hand-me-downs from friends and family) that it's an okay problem to have! (For anyone interested and because I think everything is interesting, her brother was 12 pounds 15 ounces and 24 inches - between 5th and 10th percentile for both).
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| One month old |
She is very good with her hands and likes to grab onto everything within her reach. If she doesn't have a toy within reach, her hands will be in her mouth. She likes her pacifier, but find her hands to be almost as good of an option if the paci isn't around.
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| 2 months |
She is happiest when you are looking her in the eye and playing with her. She likes to smile and "chat" and only really gets fussy when no one is paying attention to her. If she's being held, she's happy. In fact, as I type this, she is sitting on my lap looking at the computer screen and holding my arms - happy as a clam.
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| 3 months |
She's totally enamored with her brother and loves to watch him do everything. He often tells me that "baby needs a car" and will carefully select the car she needs from his basket and put it in her hand. Usually after about three seconds he takes it away to get her a new one. They both think this is a fun game.
She rolled from belly to back Thursday for the first time (that I've seen, Geoff informed me that he's see her do it before I didn't tell me!!). She's been rolling back to front for a few weeks. She doesn't have the most impressive head control, but her tummy time continues to improve every day.
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| 4 months |
The doctor, in an effort to encourage me to help her gain some more weight before her next check-up, suggested I start her on solids, but she's not ready. We started Will around 4.5 months, but he was much more ready physically for solids. I'll want Audrey's head control to improve more before we'll do that.
Overall she's just been a happy and welcome addition to our little family and we love watching her grow!
And, seriously, that hair.
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