Four Months

Today the bean turns four months old. While she's still so little, it nevertheless feels like we've come a long way from when we first brought her home from the hospital.

Thankfully, breastfeeding is no longer much of a challenge—except now we need to get Beia to focus on eating rather than looking around. She's discovered her surroundings and is often more interested in what's to see than what there is to eat.

She's also starting to put herself on a regular sleep-eat-play schedule. We no longer have long periods of sleep during the day, but usually two or three hour intervals when we can spend some time playing together. Whereas Beia used to hate tummy time, she's now quite good at it—occasionally entertaining us by rolling over (tummy to back) one way or the other. As her head control has developed, she is also expressing an interest in sitting up. Just this week, we have started sitting her in the boppy pillow so she can practice holding herself up. Come night time, we've settled into a bath routine that gets her to sleep by about 7:30pm. She usually doesn't wake again until around 3am, so this gives Steven and I time for dinner together—as well as time to workout, watch tv, or finish us some work before heading to bed by 10pm. After the 3am feeding, Beia usually will sleep for another three or so hours until it's time to get up for the day around 6:30am. Daylight Savings Time has thrown us off a bit, but not too badly.

Beia is also proving to be Chatty Cathy—moving from gentle cooing sounds to having full fledged conversations and laughing. We're not sure what she's saying, but she obviously has a lot to talk about. She has also discovered the pouty lip look and already knows how to use it.

This weekend we have her four month appointment where she'll be weighed and measured. We are taking bets again on how much she'll weigh, as that was one of our first concerns with her. It's not an issue now, with her muffin top hanging over her diaper, but it's still fun to speculate. We're hoping for a solid 12lbs.