Greta turned 4 months on the 25th. She is still just a sweet little girl and is still at such a nice stage. She still likes playing on her activity mat and really loves sitting in her little striped chair and her Bumbo. She had her 4 month appointment last Thursday and did great! We waited a bit for the doctor, then she had her appointment, then we waited some more for the nurses to come in to give her her shots. She started getting a little grumpy and sleepy while waiting for the nurses. When the nurse came in to give her the oral vaccine, I set her on the table and she drank the vaccine right up and then started falling asleep. I don't think I've ever had a baby fall asleep on the cold paper on the table (or at least not at this age) before while waiting for shots:). It was sad to have to wake her up then to give her the shots:(.
She is currently in size 2 diapers and blows out of them all the time! She just moved up to 2's since we used up the last box of 1's we had and 2's fit fine. She has had WAY more blow out diapers than my other kids though! And I don't think it's the fault of the diaper--there's just a lot of poop:). She doesn't poop that often, so when she does, she gets it all out at once. She has had many outfit changes and quick baths! She rolled over from back to front a couple of days before she turned 4 months but hasn't since then. She gets close, but not quite all the way over. She is probably basically on the same schedule she was on at 3 months except we've been putting her to bed a little earlier at night now. She wakes up around 8:30 normally, eats her 6 oz breakfast bottle, the naps about an hour around 10. Then eats lunch around noon. Then takes an afternoon nap for anywhere from 1-4 hours, it just depends on the day. Normally she sleeps at least 1 1/2-2. She then eats around 3:30 (6 oz) then naps again around 5:30 and then eats her supper bottle (6 oz) around 7 and goes to bed right after her bottle. And then sleeps until 8:30ish and does it all again the next day:). She was getting 5 bottles in a day until recently and four seems to be working better. It's nice to be able to put her to bed before the other two go to bed except it allows no time for cleaning up supper if one of us is gone since we normally don't eat supper until about 6:30. So then it's eat supper, quick feed her, put her down and then put the other two down. Then clean up supper and anything else that needs to be picked up. And I need to fit pumping into that schedule. It definitely feels a lot busier having 3 little ones. I'm wore out by 9:30! I wouldn't trade it for anything and love having Greta has part of our family, but it definitely keeps us busy! She wears 3-6 months clothes. She had a 0-3 month shirt on today and it was really hugging her curves:). She is still on all breast milk and I'm still getting extra to freeze. I'm getting sick of putting my milk in freezer bags, but I know it'll be nice for when I stop pumping to have a nice supply and not have to spend money on formula. I'll probably cut back and slowly quit when the whether starts getting nicer as it's harder to fit pumping in with going outside since I don't trust leaving my kids outside if I can't see/hear them from inside, so I don't pump while they're outside.
Here are her stats:
Weight - 13 lbs 10.5 oz 50th %
Height - 24.5" 50th %
Head - 40.1 cm 25th%
She is growing healthy and still has plenty of cheeks to squeeze:). The doctor said that her top of her head looks nice and round, it's just the flat spot on her back left side now. She starts therapy soon to help her look to her right more and tomorrow is getting and x-ray of her head just to make sure her plates aren't closing early. He doesn't think that's what it is since you can tell by how she lays looking left that that's where her head is flat, but he just wants to make sure.
Laying on Gibs' panda pillow (he LOVES pandas, I'm surprised he was okay with her laying on it)...
Looking cool in sissy's Princess Tiana glasses...
She now has her own little prayer doll to pose by for her monthly shots...
A quick pic before church this morning...
Gibs just recently started wanting to smile for pictures which worked well since he had his two year pictures yesterday.
Poor Layla fell down the steps tonight as we about to load up in the car to head over to Auntie Heidi and Uncle Steve's house. She landed on her face on our landing (tile) and had a bloody nose. Normally Gibs is always the one getting injured, not Layla. He actually fell down the stairs on Friday which is random b/c they don't normally fall down stairs!
This also isn't about Greta, but today for Palm Sunday the kids all walked in with palm branches which was cute. Layla stood there pretty sternly waving her branch, but she said later that she liked doing it. And of course Gibs had fun with his. As soon as we gave him one (after we picked him up from nursery), he hit his buddy Owen on the head with it. Good thing they're soft:).
Greta with Harper last week...
Having fun playing the piano...
She loves to smile, I love it! She has also started giggling more and more which is cute.
Layla wanted a picture of them together in their dot shirts:)...
