4 months

 My little one is 4 months old!

I definitely sang "Happy Birthday" to her this morning.

Every month is so exciting and comes around so fast.

 

Chris and I were marveling last night about how

amazing it is to see this little person

learn new things.

It probably sounds silly, but watching this little

child go from absolutely nothing, just laying

around like a limp noodle,

to looking and reaching and grabbing

and being curious and smiling when she looks at you...

There's really nothing else like it :)

 

Though I loved her as a newborn,

she is so much more fun now haha.

I could just play with her all day....and that's

pretty much exactly what I do :)

 

We had to postpone her 4 month appointment until

we move to Utah due to insurance stuff,

but we performed our own

little growth charting session the other night.

She weighed in at 15.8 pounds, 75 ish percentile.

She was above 95th percentile in length

and around 50 percent for head circumference....

which I'm not too convinced is correct

cause she's got quite the  noggin.

 

She's occasionally sticking out her tongue,

but her current fixation is her little hands and fingers.

Yesterday, she started playing with her toes too.

We enjoyed snuggling up during Scarlett's first snowstorm!

What the heck, I thought I didn't have to deal with this

much snow until we moved to Utah, boooo.

But it was fun to bust out the sweaters and hoodies.

 

I got sick last weekend, and poor little thing also caught her

first cold :(  Aw it breaks my heart hearing

her all stuffed up and coughing and knowing

that I made her sick :(

(But she does have the cutest little coughs I've ever heard)

Plus the snuggles are AMAZING when she feels crummy.

 

Her muscles are getting stronger!

She rolls from her tummy to back,

and we're convinced that she has the ability to go the other way,

but she HATES tummy time so much that

she probably never will.

She'll probably skip crawling altogether just because she

hates being on her tummy.

Below: Her head is just a little too large

to keep it up on her own :)  She just falls forward.

 

Scarlett's first birthday party experience complete with face painting :)

Adorable, yes, but kind of a pain to get off.

 

Those thunder thighs have been put to good use!

She absolutely loves standing,

and we discovered she can do it on her own leaning

against a table.

 

I promise we don't just stick our

child in front of the TV..

(Well, sometimes Chris does without my knowledge lol)

But we were working on rolling over and then

I found her fixated on the screen...ugghhh

 

Starting to hold her own bottle to Chris's excitement.

The other night Chris and I were working

on our Scarlett facial impressions.

Apparently I'm not very good, according to Chris.

 



 

Our biggest news this month is that we're MOVING on SATURDAY!!

Utah, here we come!!

I could not be more excited.

Packing, however, has proved to be quite difficult with a baby hanging around.

Yesterday I came up with the best idea EVER though to

keep her happy and occupied :)

Thank goodness for bumbos and mirrors.

 

Funny story of the week:

Scarlett was born with adorable fuzzy ears :)

Haha they had quite the little tuft of hair

and it was adorable, of course.

The other day I went to play with her ears, as usual,

and noticed they felt entirely too soft and smooth.

I told Chris, "Hunny, her ear hair fell out!"

He got this weird expression on his face....

then explained..

"Well yeah, cause I cut it off last week"

He trimmed her ears!

I was so upset, cause I loved her ears just the way they were,

but what can ya do? :)

 

 

I don't know how it's possible,

but our love for Scarlett just continues to grow!

She makes our lives so much better!