In My Life: 4 months

4 months stats: 15 pounds 8 ounces (80th percentile) and 26.5 inches long (99th percentile). I checked and she is pretty much in the same percentiles as Orrin at that age, but she is over a pound lighter and an inch shorter. Which is weird because Joanna seems huge, so its hard to imagine that Orrin was even bigger!
She is wearing 9 month size clothes, even some 12 month (usually when she's in cloth diapers).
She hasn't changed too much since the last post. Still cooing and squealing a lot. She is very good at grabbing toys and chewing on them. And she's working hard on rolling over but not quite there yet. Its kind of a hard age because she gets bored easily so I have to keep moving her around to different places. She wants to be held a lot but she is heavy so I get tired! She doesn't like being in the wrap or ergo right now though, which would help me out a lot.
I've noticed that she is a lot more serious than Orrin was. She smiles, but not nearly as much or as easily as him, and she does giggle, but its pretty rare. Maybe its because she is a girl, but she is more challenging. More sensitive and more dramatic. And lately, up every hour or two at night, which is very draining! For a while she was consistently sleeping until 4am, but now she is usually back up sometime between 11 and 1 to eat again, then every 3 hours (or less) after. And there are at least a couple times in between that we go in to stick the pacifier back in her mouth, which usually buys us another hour of sleep. My criteria for deciding to feed her is if after replacing the pacifier twice, she still whines. I could probably try rocking her back to sleep or something, but nursing her is fastest and easiest and I am always tired and just want to go back to bed at that point. :) Hopefully this is a short phase!
But overall, she is wonderful and we just adore her!

Spot is always her guardian.