4 Months Old!!!

My little angel baby, Brooke is 4 months old!!!

I seriously love this age. In so many ways, I just don't want her to get bigger! Brooke is the happiest little thing. This girl already has a TON of personality, and her smiles and laughs just make my day, every day!

(These pictures with the blue polka dots are from 3 months old. The rest are her newer 4 month old pictures)

At FOUR MONTHS OLD, Brookie baby:

*LOVES to find new faces to smile at. This girl is all smiles almost all the time!

*Has the best laugh in the entire world

*Is SO easy to console. She only cries when she wants to go to sleep, wants to eat a bottle, or wants some attention and someone to smile at her and play with her. All easily fixed!

*Loves her baths. She's becoming quite the little splasher! We usually bathe her every other day.

*Just started wearing size 2 diapers

*Weighs 13 1/2 pounds. She's around the 70'th percentile for length and the 40-50's for weight

*I finally went through all the baby clothes and put away all the 0-3 month clothes. They're now officially too small, and she's fitting the 3-6 month stuff great.

*Has already had two separate colds in her four months of life. It's so sad to hear her all congested and coughing! She seems healthy at the moment, thank goodness!

*Still has pretty blue eyes and a ton of soft dark hair! She hasn't lost any of the hair she was born with, it's just grown longer.

*Still can't roll over. She tries and gets onto her sides, but her arms always get in her way. She does move herself around to face different directions, but she arches her back a lot and I think it interferes with the rolling.

*Has excema on her face. I put special cream on it many times every day, but her skin on her face is just SO sensitive and dry, and turns red and scaly.

*Still sleeps in the bassinet in Mommy and Daddy's room. This is longer than any other baby did, since I've been postponing having the older two girls share a room. But she has a nice, big crib all set up and ready for her, and she'll have her own room very soon!

*Sleeps really well! She usually goes to bed between 8 and 9, and sleeps all the way until 5 or 6 in the morning or (on a REALLY great night) until 8! Yeah, my baby rocks.

*Doesn't need to be rocked to sleep anymore!!!
This is a recent development. We started putting her down in the crib sleepy but awake, and a lot of the time it actually works! My other two babies weren't ready for that until 6 months old, but sweet Brooke is already falling asleep by herself!

*Still gets wrapped up tight and swaddled for her long nighttime sleep. I no longer swaddle her for naps though, and I'm sure the nighttime swaddling will have to stop soon too. Trying to remember how we weaned my other two off being swaddled!

*Doesn't have a very consistent nap schedule yet, but usually takes a short morning nap, long afternoon nap, and then a very short early evening snooze. She likes to nap in her car seat, the swing, and usually takes her long nap in her bassinet.

*Takes 6-ounce bottles a lot of the time now. A typical day includes four 6-ounce bottles and one 4-ounce bottle.

*Is addicted to her binky, just like all my babies always are.

*Seems sensitive to temperature. It's common for me to find her sweating in her car seat even on a really cold day.

*Has the most gigantic, open-mouthed smiles!

*Loves to cuddle up with blankets. She especially likes pulling them up by her face.

*Reaches out for toys and grabs them, and bats at toys that dangle from her jungle play mat.

*Smiles at her sisters, even when they try to sit on her, poke her in the eyes, "help" feed her by putting stuff in her mouth, and get right up in her face all day.

*Loves to watch the TV screen. She'll just sit there and stare at the colors and the flashing lights. It mesmerizes her.

*Already thinks peek-a-boo, kisses, and tickles are hilarious!

We love our sweet, happy little baby girl sooooooo much!