4 Months Old

Leah, slow down!  You are growing up too fast little baby!

Each month that Leah enters into, I am reminded of how they are constantly growing and developing.  Her world continues to expand around her.

Leah weighs 14lbs (48th percentile) and is 24.5in long (57th percentile).  

We have zero schedule; which is more than fine with me.  She goes to bed at night usually around 9/10pm; wakes up 1-2 times during the night to eat, and then is up for the morning around 6:30am.  The early morning wake up call is the worst right now, Brie sleeps until 7/7:30 most mornings, and Leah used too!  But she has decided to be an early bird recently.  She naps sporadically throughout the day.  Sometimes she takes a long nap in the morning, other times it is in the afternoon.  A long nap for her is anywhere from 2-3hrs.  Some of her naps are around 30-45min.  Like I said.....sporadic! She takes most of her naps in the swing.  And at night I wrap her up, rock her for a little bit and put her in the pack n play with her pipe in.  She takes the pacifier still, not really going for her thumb as much anymore. 

For the most part she follows the eat, play, sleep routine.  But sometimes she likes to eat a little before she goes down for a nap.  When I am at work it is more structured with the bottles; but when I am home she likes to have a 'snack' here and there :)  She has been taking the bottle great, no more problems at all.

She loves to chew on her hands, or anything else she can get into her mouth!  She will be such a happy little camper when she can figure out how to consistently put toys in her mouth.  Just not quite there yet though.  Just recently though she has been much more interested in toys!  Leah loves to lay on the play mat, she bats at the hanging toys and coos and talks.  She isn't so great at sitting in the bumbo seat for some reason; tends to slouch to one side, or tries to bend in half so she can suck on the side of it.  By far the swing is her favorite thing to sit in and sleep in!

Leah loves to stand up; she loves standing on your lap facing you while you talk to her.  She could do that for such a long time before her legs get tired.  Her little talking is so adorable; lots of coos, gurgles, and practicing different sounds with her voice.  She has started laughing now too recently; it is more of a chuckle at this point, which just makes it all that much cuter!  She has watched Praise Baby a few times, and of course loves it.  I don't think she likes it as much as Briana did at that age though; I just remember Brie being so engrossed in it!  The couple times she has watched the Praise Baby DVD Brie has sat right along side of her and watched it too.

A few times now Leah has had some stranger-danger with people that aren't Alec or myself.  I don't remember Brie ever going through the 'stranger-danger' phase, so this is a little new for us!  She would cry when someone else picked her up, and wouldn't calm down until she was by me.  It is nice to feel loved though :)

At her 4mon appointment the doctor had no concerns.  She got more vaccines, and handled it well!  They did make her really fussy and have a low grade fever the next day though. She still has a blocked tear duct on her left eye; we call it her goopy eye since there is always goop on it!  We are just hoping it resolves on its own as she grows, don't want to have to go to an eye doctor for her and do the procedure to open it up.

Alec and I are just loving each stage Leah goes through, she is getting so old so fast it seems.