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@cvbee: He looks riveted by that book! What book is it?

@skibobrown: She looks like she knows she's cute in that outfit.

@stiffaknee: Little Diva!

@Mrsbells: Thanks

@stiffaknee: baby Banz! Sooooo cute! 12 hours already?! whoa Is she formula fed?

C was supposed to be a March baby, but she came April 3rd!

State of the union:
~We are 16 weeks old today! She'll be 4 months next Friday. I can't believe it.
~We sleep 12 hours straight through the night. Hallelujah!
~She has started grabbing and laughing in the past month.
~We was weighed at 3 months and was 15lbs7oz and 25.5in. I would guess she's probably 16lbs and 26 inches now.
~She is still formula fed but we've started putting 2tbsp of rice cereal in her final bottle of the night to start her getting used to a thicker food. We're planning to start solids around 5 months. She's handling it like a champ.
~Her little personality is really starting to show through and she's a total doll.

Took this photo today on our first beach outing, she knocked out on the blanket. lol. We had to jerry-rig up a blanket on a stroller to shade her.

Hey cant believe I just stumbled upon this post! I hope Im not too far behind.

Abby was born 4.4.12

she turned 17 weeks yesterday.

Sleep: Babygirl sleeps pretty well. She is usually ready to go to sleep anywhere from 7:30pm -8:00pm and she will sleep until anywhere from 4:30am - 6:30am where she gets a feeding and then remains asleep until we wake her to go to the sitters house.

Eating: Babygirl has been formula feed since she turned one month. My milk supply never caught up to her needs. She already seems interested in food because she just stares and stares. I will be asking her ped next week about starting her on solids!

Milestones: she rolled over from her tummy to her back four times in a row. not sure if it was by accident but 4 times seems like too many accidents! She also just started laughing and screeching. Its the cutest thing ever to hear her happy yelling :-).

Caregiver: I have been back at work for close to a month now. Luckily my aunt who is like my second mother watches her for us.

@regberadaisy: I remember you saying something before about your LO doing 'sit ups' in her reclined chair and you wondering if she was uncomfortable or something. Well, I was thinking of you yesterday, as Nico just got 'obsessed' with doing baby situps. Everywhere I put him, he works on baby sit ups. He doesn't even care about toys anymore! I think he's a little behind on the moving milestones (he is far from rolling over in any direction) so I'm pretty excited about his new interest in mobility. Had to share! Here is a pic of him doing a baby sit-up.

@regberadaisy: maybe it was someone else? We April baby ladies are slacking off on our updates. What is everyone else dealing with this week?

For me, it is trying to figure out why Nico is sometimes having some extra midnight wake-ups to eat. (Well, who knows if it is hunger, but I do feed him any time he wakes up). For many weeks he was doing at least a 6 hour stretch and usually 8 hours of sleeping. Now it's sometimes 6, but other nights 5 or 4. At first I thought growth spurt, but it has been on and off for 8 nights now. He used to be like clockwork, night time was 8-8 and every nap was 1 hour, and awake sessions were usually 2 hours plus sometimes 30 minutes of fussing to sleep. Now he'll have one day of 'normal' and the next day he's all over the board. Today he's already starting 'off', as it's 9am and he's still sleeping away.

@cvbee: I know I've been slacking FOR SURE! lol

Everyone's lo are getting SO big already! I can't believe how fast it's going!

4 month update:

Miss Penelope weighs 11lb 4 oz and is 23.5 in long! She's still a petite one but doing great moving up the chart.

Eating: We're still ebf & I'm now dairy, soy, egg, tree nuts, peanuts, and wheat free! Yay for eating healthy right?... lol She was doing pretty good going 2-2.5hrs between feeding then we got a case of the "distractible baby" & we went back to demand feedings. <-- This also affected sleep. Yay. =/

Sleeping: After a week of her waking up an obscene amount of times, we're back to her waking around 1 and 5 am. Only now at 5 she stays up for a bit, talks and then poos. lol. I'm so glad to be past the 4-month sleep regression, which was accompanied by wonder week metal leap 3, AND her just not getting good feedings in during the day. I actually started thinking we were doing some reverse cycling there for a minute, but thank God it's leveled back out! She still starts off in the pak n play (which is in our room) and then moves into our bed when she wakes. I figure we'll co-sleep/bed till around her first bday or so, if she continues to wake through the night.

Milestones: Well, she officially a rollie pollie rolling in both directions, and she's FINALLY starting to engage more & look at us! I swear for the first 3 1/2 months it was like she was purposely ignoring us! She grabs for toys if they're hanging over her but still doesn't have alot of control over them... she could care less about reaching for something while doing tummy time. Oh, and her new favorite past time is eating her feet! lol

Here's her updated pics:

@bree72: Yay for check-ins. Mine was 4 months on the 17th too....no rolling and no teeth here.....16 pounds 1 ounce (75th percentile), 25 inches long (50th percentile). I love that we have birthday exact-os.

My guy is losing his hair....anyone else's?! I'm so sad to see it going because I've always loved his downy head of hair. Bye hair.

@bree72: oh geez! that does sound tricky. Maybe mine will always sleep like a sack of potatoes?

And yes, about the hair, it can definitely change late in the game. My friend has a 6 month old who just lost her dark newborn hair and now she's a blondie!!

@regberadaisy: At my 4 month visit, my ped said since he has teeth already and sits up really well, that we could start trying some foods from a spoon if we were interested. I didn't really care to since it's not something we need to do yet and it was just one more thing to add to the list, but my husband really just wanted to try it and see where he might be. So we tried peas this weekend and he hated it and kept gagging, so I insisted he wasn't ready. But yesterday I went to the store and my husband asked to get something else to try and I grabbed sweet potatoes. Well, they were a hit and he acted like he'd been using a spoon forever. Baby bird mouth all the way. I don't know how dedicated I feel to it, though, still. Maybe we'll just try it here and there for fun. I'll do the 3 days of sweet potatoes to check for allergies, but other than that, we'll just see.