Carson is now four months(+ a few days) and she brings more and more joy and love to our lives everyday! She has grown so much in this past month. She has been doing so well at daycare and they continue to tell us that she is a great baby! This definitely makes it easier to drop her off everyday.
We took her for her four month check-up earlier this week and the doctor says she is doing great- and we are so thankful for that. She weighed 15 pounds and 2 ounces(around the 85%) and was 24 and 1/4 inches long(around the 93%)!!! Growing is sure not a problem-we know this because she is quickly outgrowing lots of her clothes. She now wears mostly 6 month clothes!
As for her sleeping, she does GREAT in my book. On MOST nights of the week she will sleep from 7:30ish until around 6:30 or we wake her at 7-and this has really been happening for almost a month. I really don't think we can ask for any better! But she still has the occasional night where she wakes for a feeding too :) And for naps she will usually take a 1-2 hr nap somehwere in her day and then about 2 other 30min-1 hr naps and then her evening power nap of 30 mins too!-great for mom and dad to have time for dinner :) As for eating, she is now down to 5 "meals" a day. And as I said, an added one comes every once in a while in the middle of the night.
What she loves at 4 months...
-still enjoys her lamb swing for an early evening nap, and sometimes a longer daytime nap on the weekends :)
-LOVES her first 2 fingers of her Left hand. She sucks them all the time!
-bathtime! She now giggles at her rubber ducky and really enjoys splashing water with her legs everywhere! We always feel bad not letting her stay in the water longer.
-snuggling with mom and dad after eating :)
-having her picture taken-she is all smiles for the camera.
-going for walks in the Baby Bjorn facing out! She loves to take in all of her surroundings.
-story time before bed :) (on nights that she isn't too sleepy for it!)
-playing with her feet-and trying to eat her socks!
-still really enjoys tummy time, and now that she can roll tummy to back and vice versa(she enjoyed keeping this a secret from us and only doing this at daycare for a week or two!)-we tend to find her on her tummy more and more!!
-Still loves to put anything and everything straight into her mouth-don't anticipate this changing anytime soon!
What she doesn't love...
-her paci, she never really liked the paci much before, but in the past month she has really come to dislike it-when she is fussy or fighting sleep and you try to give her the paci she gets even more upset. Just makes for one less thing to make sure you leave the house with-she always has her fingers!
-this may be TMI, but, she doesn't really love breastfeeding anymore-I think she loves the instant gratification with bottles! But we aren't giving up yet :)
-naps in the crip on the weekend--about 50% of her naps go well there, otherwise we are usually out running errands or in the lamb swing :) We hope once naps are a little more scheduled the crib will be easier.
We cannot wait to take her for another trip to the beach! Hopefully she will have time to enjoy the pool this summer too :) As I have said before, we are absolutely loving being parents and fall more and more in love with Carson everyday! We don't want her to grow up toooo fast, but we know the future holds lots of fun and learning too!
