4 Months!

Maisy turned 4 months old yesterday and had her 4 month Dr. Appt today.  She got her Dtap shot (blah!) and also left there with a prescription for Amoxicillin because she has ear infections in both ears!  Other than being stuffy in the past week, I had no clue she was feeling bad, poor girl.  Here’s what our 4 month old is up to these days:

• She weighs 13 pounds 2 ounces which is the 20th percentile for weight.
• She is 25.5 inches long which is the 90th percentile for height.
• She wears 3-6 month clothes and size 3 diapers.
• She tried rice cereal from a bowl for the first time last night (pictures to come!)
• She eats 4 ounce bottles every 3 hours during the day, getting her last one at 7pm.  No more breastfeeding for this Momma!  She is strictly on formula now.
• She goes to bed at 7 and sleeps anywhere from 8-10 hours then takes 3-4 naps throughout the day.
• She is very stuck on her schedule, so when she’s cranky its because it’s meal time or bed time.
• No more crying in the car…….Hallelujah!  Praise Jesus!  Thank you Lord!  It’s a miracle.
• She has really started to come into her personality this month.  All you have to do is say hi to get her to flash her sweet smile.  She is very calm and goes along with whatever we’re doing.  She is not demanding or strong willed (YET!) but laid back and easy to please.
• She coo’s very quietly, and has started to let out the shortest little laugh for Daddy.  She is very ticklish and will squirm and do her tiny laugh while I’m getting her dressed.
• She knows who her Mommy & Daddy are and has started to have a little bit of stranger anxiety.  She has cried 4 different times in the past week when random people grabbed her who she wasn’t familiar with.
• Ryder is her best entertainment.  She loves to watch him and when he cuddles up next to her she has to be touching him.  It used to be that he always had to be touching her, but now as soon as he is within reach she grabs his face, hand, or a handful of hair…ouch!  I caught her chewing on his fingers the other day, as germy as I knew it was, I couldn’t make her stop because it was the sweetest thing that he was allowing her to do that.
• She’s drooling and chewing on anything she can reach.
• She rolled from tummy to back this month. On her back she rolls to her side but hasn’t made the complete flip.

Usually big brother crashes our monthly photo shoots, but since he wasn’t available for this one, Daddy stepped in.  He had to come check on his baby girl to see what she was up to.  I love the bond that these two are forming, her eyes light up so fast when she sees her Daddy.

She’s the perfect mix of a Mommy’s girl, a Daddy’s girl, and I’m sure Ryder would want me to add in that she’s a Ryder’s girl too.  We all love her so much, she adds the best ingredients of peace and joy and happiness to this sometimes crazy, loud, chaotic household!  I’m sad these baby months are going by so fast, but always excited for the new phases to come!