Our mellow, happy, blonde, big-blue-eyed baby girl is 4 months old – EEK!
Sophia is a true JOY. Starting to show some outspoken personality, but really only when she doesn’t like something (uh, amazing, who WOULD like a toddler in their face 24/7?!), or is STARVING. She lets you know with a hissing, cat cry that seriously hurts my ears.
Current stats:
**Weight – 13 lb (50th percentile) **Length – 25 3/4” (98th percentile)
Long and Lean, No Surprise There!
**Size Clothing: 3-6 months, but she is long, so on pants 6 months only, some 9 month PJs (poor girl has 100% hand-me-downs from Emma – she literally has 2-3 outfits of her OWN! But I am starting to get some “matching” outfits for the girls…I can’t stop myself!)
**Snuggling with Mommy, Sleeping in Mommy/Daddy’s bed (she is very spoiled)
**Her red-bird and pig toys, snuggling with her lovies – “Paisley” the Bunny from Caroline & Eleanor, and “Raffi” the Giraffe from Jack & Emma
**Putting EVERYTHING (mainly her fingers/hands) in her mouth
**Laughing at Jack and Emma, especially when they make funny sounds
**Having her neck kissed
**Watching trees move in the wind and being outside – there is so much to see!
**Bathtime – has a newfound like of splashing and watching herself in the mirror
**Paci – just like Jack and Emma, this almost instantly calms her down
**Having her face touched/held when she falls asleep or clutching my hand
**Babywearing – Soph ADORES her carrier (Ergo) and it still knocks her out for 2-3 hours every time she is in it!
**Swinging (just did it for the first time a week ago and she laughed SO HARD!)
**Newfound hatred for her carseat/being buckled in (uh, NOT a good thing for this traveling family!)
**Having a brother/sister in her face 24/7 – they love to kiss her, but sometimes ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
**Not being fed RIGHT when she wants it, especially in the car
**Not being held – Uh, sorry, girl, this is NOT going to happen – she gets really mad when I put her down at times…OOPS!
**Tummy time for too long – she does pretty well, but after awhile she just lays her head down and cries
**Holding/grabbing out for objects – this is SO FUN to watch!
**ALMOST rolling over back to front – Soph is trying SO HARD to make it happen!
**Taking her paci out and trying to put it back in
**Playing with toys/puzzles during tummy time – reaching out and batting at them
**Laughing out loud, recognizing our family and bursting into a huge smile
**Sleeping for all naps in Emma’s crib…she will be moving to it in month or so
**Sitting up – we need to find the Bumbo in storage, as she wants to sit up or stand most of the time
**Still nursing 100% and about every 3 hours, sometimes from both sides. I actually spent my first real chunk of time away from her last month with being gone for 6 hours and she took a few bottles – did fine, even in hard-core Daddy style of cold from the fridge. :-) My body does not respond well to pumping, and I have an overnight with girlfriends this weekend, so I hope that I can have enough for her by then…
**Hoping to not start oatmeal/cereal until 5/5.5 months, but we will see how it goes. I do think she has started to get a bit more hungry at night, so that might help push it over to not waking up at 4am and sleeping until 6am?
Sleeping:
**Goes down for “final” time around 8:30, occasionally wakes when we go to bed around 11 (basically eats asleep and goes right back down), Wakes up to eat around 4am, then again at 6am, and sleeps until 8/9am!
**For naps, Soph sleeps in Emma’s crib, as she is getting much more aware of sound and needs some quiet. Or, if we are out and about, she has no trouble sleeping in her carseat or her favorite – the Ergo.
**At night, she is still beside us (uh, there is NOWHERE else to put her in our condo!) in the Rock N’ Play, but will be moving to the crib once we move and get settled. I think we are all ready for that – so she has 1 month to truly sleep “through the night” so that I am not getting up and going into her room!
All in All, Sophia is very “go with the flow,” which is great, as we had a very busy summer and she pretty much was just along for the ride! She loves to watch the world around her and just take it all in. She is getting more very blonde hair and her eyes are still big and bright blue. She has the BEST big, gummy, full-faced smile and I see a little dimple like Jack on the right side! Sophia is also the tannest little babe – she has a beautiful complexion and her skin just seems to “glow” – can I get some of that?!
I LOVE the smell of her sweet breath – it is so weird, but true. She is starting to lose her baby smell (SUCH a sad day for Daddy), but I am holding out hope that she won’t get any teeth until later like Jack & Emma, who didn’t get a tooth until 7 months.
I can’t wait to see what newness Month 5 brings…I’m guess more coordination, rolling over, and maybe starting to play in an Exersaucer? Fun times!!!
We LOVE our Sophia Mae!
