Ruby Caroline 4 Months!

Our sweet baby girl is FOUR months old!  It seems like overnight you went from newborn to baby!

  

   Some new milestones this month:

• Started sleeping through the night consistently, typically from 8:30 or 9:00 pm until 7:00 am!!
• Laughed for the first time at Daddy
• We finally moved you to your room on 04.05.14 and you have slept great every night there since!
• Started taking consistent naps in your crib, you cry at first and spit your paci out, but usually we only have to put it back in once.
• Started playing with toys, especially those that hang above you on your playmat.
• You smile all the time and definitely recognize familiar faces! You light up when you see John Thomas.
• You can roll over from back to tummy and tummy to back with ease.
• You try really, really hard to sit up!
• For the first time, you stayed away from mama and took your bottles for Daddy great!
• You are still spitting up, cutting out dairy has helped some, but you still spit up quite a bit!
• You are eating every 3 hours and taking about 3 naps a day, sometimes with a short nap in the early evening after dinner.

For diapers, you still wear size 1 disposables, though you could probably move up to size 2, I have a few more size 1 to use.  In cloth you are still on the smallest rise setting and I need to start putting in a thicker insert, you are wetting through the newborn ones!  You wear 0-3 and some 3-6 month clothes, and your tiny feet are still too narrow for shoes!

 Your eye color remains blue, like mamas!  Your hair is still a light brown, and is starting to get much thicker!

We went for your 4 month checkup and you are perfectly healthy!  She was impressed at how strong you are, like your big brother!  You got mad again at your shots, but were over it after I nursed you and didn't have any reaction to them.

Your official 4 month stats are:

Weight - 12 lbs 8.5 oz (35%)

Height - 24" (50%)

Head - 15 3/4" (25%)

Ruby, 

You are growing too fast!  I want time to slow down so I can preserve each cuddle and grin you give us!  We love you more and more everyday!

Love, Mama and Daddy