Addallee Marigold -- Four Months

Our little lady is now four months old!

Here she is at four months...

and three months...

and two months...

 

and one month...
 

and as a sweet newborn.

Weight: 

According to our bathroom scale, I estimate she's about 15 pounds.  She has the cutest little leg rolls now, and she's getting nice chubby cheeks.  :-D

Length:  

Her length is harder to estimate... she wears three and six month clothing and we've had to move the straps on her carseat to the next highest opening... so she's growing.

Clothing size: 

She wears 3 and 6 month clothing.  All the newborn clothes and the 0-3 onesies have been put away.

Eating:  

Addallee nurses well and when she needs to.  She nurses on demand, so I really don't know how often.  When I have to leave bottles for her, she will polish off over 5 ounces in a feeding, so she is getting plenty of good mama milk.

Sleeping:  

Addallee sleeps in our room in a bassinet laying flat on her back (we're out of the dock-a-tot now) and she wears a sleep sack vest with her arms out.  This seems to be a great way for her to sleep at the moment, and she usually nurses once or twice a night, and just a quick snack and back to bed.  The only nights she really struggles is if she has a stuffy nose.  She has napped once in a crib in the nursery, but that seemed to be a one-time occurrence.

 

New things/discoveries: 

• She now has begun to play in the exersaucer and bouncy swing
• She has rolled over from her tummy to her back a few times
• She had her first Valentine's Day
• She was sick for the first time with congestion, cough, and probably an ear infection (but it was healing by the time we went to the doctor)
• She had her first times playing in the snow with her siblings -- okay... her first times being worn in the carrier while her siblings play in the snow

 

  
New Accomplishments: 

• She has just started to try to giggle, which is so sweet
• She loves smiling at her siblings
• She chatters and coos a lot when Hubby, her siblings or I are making eye contact and engaging with her.
• She has started trying to grab whatever is in my hands while I'm holding her
• She's sleeping longer stretches at night, napping with a little more predictability and is awake for longer stretches during the day.
• She has gone down the slide of the bouncehouse with her siblings
• Tracey has been allowed to hold her standing up once or twice (with very close supervision)

Likes: 

• Attention
• Exersaucer
• Pacifiers
• Nursing
• Her siblings
• Warm baths
• Being worn in a Moby wrap
• Sitting up in the panda chair or bumpo chair 
• This is actually a hard category because she likes so many things.  She is such a happy girl and loves to be included with everything going on.

Dislikes:

• Being hungry
• Being cold

 
 Places She's Gone:

•  I don't think I mentioned that last month, she was the demonstration baby for a baby bath lesson in Tracey's class -- she literally got a bath at school
• First trip to the grocery store and other errands by myself with all four children for the first time.
• Valentine's Family Dinner at Qdoba
• Fun night with Howard and friends at Chuck-E-Cheese

Special Memories:

•  The time at Chuck-E-Cheese's
• The Valentine's Dinner
• Tracey's fourth birthday, which means we officially no longer have four children under four... we now have four children under five 
• Not really good memories... but I guess its special when all children get sick at once -- that happened this past month, which led to some quiet days of cuddles
• Also, not good but Howard had stitches for the first time, so we had several unexpected trips to the doctor

Nicknames:

• Addallee Marigold (Tracey calls her this, which is adorable)
• Lee Lee
• Caroline calls her "Yaya"