4 month check up and Fiona is 14.7lbs and 24.5 inches long. Pretty much in the 55/50 percentile. My little girl is 4 months (and now a couple weeks) now. There have been many changes happening in the past couple weeks especially. She's become SO much more aware of her surroundings, she's not eating quite as frequently as she once was, we tried cereal once -she was not amused. She's chewing on everything, has noticed that she has feet and is constantly curled up in this little turtle position playing with them, lights up like Christmas when she see's her brother, and best of all she's giggling and smiling up a storm!!! Her little giggle is hilarious and ridiculously cute! Jack gets her to laugh all of the time and of course he gets a kick out of it to. She's also cooing and making all kinds of silly sounds now which is equally as adorable as her little laugh! She finally rolled over from tummy to back 2 days ago an today she rolled from back to tummy for the first time.
Hates the car seat with a passion!! She is such a happy content baby most of the time except when it's time to go in that damn car seat. Usually she just passes out of exhaustion from crying OR decides it's not going to get her anywhere and just stops to look around.
Still up past bedtime and neither one is the least bit tired!
During the past 3 weeks or so she has really changed up her sleeping schedule at night. She used to sleep like a champ pretty much all night only waking once to feed and then again in the early morning. I was happy with that and had gotten used to that schedule. Then all of a sudden she started waking up every 2 hours on the dot and not going back down as easily. Instead of just going right back to sleep she would wake back up again like 20-30 minutes later and want to eat again. Would go back down for about another 2 hours. I was/am exhausted to say the least, the bags under my eyes are a clear reminder each morning of how little sleep I actually get. After searching the internet for answers I discovered that most babies go through a 4 month sleep digression because there is such a huge mental developmental growth spurt that happens. Looking back in my blog I saw that the same thing happened with Jack but he never quite got back on a good sleeping schedule after that. So determined for Fiona to be my "sleeper" and not have 2 kids in my bed with me each morning when I wake up, I moved her into her crib (2 nights ago) and she slept for 7 hours straight! Woke up to eat at 4am and then went back down! I couldn't believe it. I was just keeping her in my room because it was so much easier to get up with her so many times a night with her right next to me. Night two (last night) went pretty well, she only got up once and then slept until morning.
I've been bringing Fiona to work with me now that I'm back twice a week. I was going down pretty much every day for something regardless but we've recently had to do some hiring and am still in that process actually. Since we have so many new people I feel that I need to be there as much as I can tso that nothing slips through the cracks and that they get trained properly. So with me there twice a week and Johnny there once and my dad there on the day that we can't be there, I'm hoping everything can run smoothly. Thankfully Fiona has been a rock star sleeper at Scripts and pretty much sleeps through our busy lunch rush. I have a sitter for Jack and would totally leave Fiona with her as well but little miss has decided she no longer wants to take a bottle and will scream bloody murder until I come and feed her. I left her with my mom one day so I could go to work and had to leave and go get her and bring her back to work with me because she screamed for four hours and wouldn't eat. My mom said that she may have gotten about an ounce but by total accident, she must have choked it down while refusing the bottle. I walked in to get her and my mom just looked at me and said "you have one stubborn little girl on your hands"!!
