Four Months

Mallory just had her 4-month check up yesterday.  She is 14.13 pounds (50th percentile); 25.5 inches long (75th percentile); and her head circumference is 15.94 inches (25th percentile).  So I guess she has a small head… but it is a cute little head!  : )

I’m going to have to post pictures on her monthly posts because I found a website that will print your blogs!!  How cool is that?!  So if I post videos… when I get my blog printed it won’t show up.

Four Months…

~ Rolling rolling rolling!  She can roll from her back to her stomach but can’t figure out how to get back on her back.  She cries and gets mad and I have to help her back over. 

~ Little bit of a temper.  If she is hungry or tired or just plain frustrated she will throw her head to the right and arch her back!  I don’t like that arching back stuff.

~ Giggling more.  I can get her to giggle now by tickling her belly or blowing on her belly.

~ Eating cereal!  She hums and talks the entire time.  She also has to help me get the spoon to her mouth.  I might not know the way!  And with every bite her hands have to go in her mouth… and then she has to rub those slimy hands on her head… and then grab my hand to direct the next bite in her mouth.  We are one big slimy icky mess every night!

~ Reaching and grabbing!  Right now I think it is cute, but I’m sure I won’t real soon.  She reaches for everything.  Doesn’t have 100% control but she definitely thinks she does and tries really hard.  If she is sitting on my lap while I am working and I have to answer the phone – she reaches for the phone cord and pulls it trying to get it into her mouth.  She has found my earrings and my hair!  No wonder why Mom’s cut their hair off when they have babies!  I decided to rock the ponytail instead.

She is definitely a Momma’s little girl.  When we go some where at first she won’t let anybody touch her.  She starts pouting and pretty soon the pout turns into tears!  She has to warm up to the environment first and then others can hold her.

Last night I left again, so it was Daddy-Mally night.  (I signed up for a photography class.)  Jesse was ready and excited for his Mally night.  I was ready and excited to learn my camera!  I got home and I find Jesse and Mallory on the couch.  Jesse is holding her and Mallory is laying on his chest sucking on her pacifier.  I said, uh-oh… not going so well?  He said, she won’t eat for me and she cries.  (LOL!)  As soon as Mallory seen me she picked her head up off Jesse’s chest and started grunting for me!  Jesse said that was the first time she picked her head up in 15 minutes!  And I went to pick her up and she looked back at Jesse and smiled!  Apparently that was also the first time she smiled all night!  He was not impressed!  I then reassured him that maybe she was a little more fussy because she just had her shots today.  He didn’t think so… he seen a different Mally as soon as I walked in!  Um, and I think Jesse was extremely happy to see me as well!  : )  (I really do think the shots might of played a little bit of a roll.)

I know this is just a phase where they want their Mommy’s all the time, but does it really start this young?  She is going to be 5 months here in a few days.  My sister’s little guy did this, but I feel like he was much older.  And honestly – I kind of don’t mind… because some day she is going to be Miss Independent, so I’m going to soak up my extra snuggles, right?!