4 Months

Our Lyvia is four months old today. She has grown quite a bit since she was born. She is 13 pounds and about 25 1/2 inches long. She is getting so fun. She smiles so much and is very happy. She is still sleeping 9-10 hours at night and takes 3 naps during the day. She has her routine down it only varies a half hour, meaning morning nap is always within thirty minutes of 10:30. Also we could set our alarm clocks by her (6 am most mornings), and bedtime at 8:30. She is such a good sleeper and can put herself to sleep in about 10 minutes or less if she has her elephant and mobile. She is grabbing at everything and promptly puts it in her mouth, still no teeth but they are there. She drools on everything and most days wears a bib so she isn't soaking wet. My favorite thing is that her personality is really starting to come through. She LOVES to pee on me and laugh about it, seriously she does it all the time! She also loves her sisters so much and gets so excited to see them. She is quite the gabber and is almost saying mama, I have heard an occasional mom though.She likes to spin in circles but won't roll over yet, she hates tummy time. I have seen her roll unintentionally a few times. She loves her rattles and any toy that makes noise. She is still a homebody and prefers to just stay at home with her routine, she is happiest then. She really wants to play with her sisters and you can see it, she just looks at them and gets so excited. She loves to sit up. I have to get her walker cleaned up so we can use it, I think she will love it. She also loves to stand and we have started "walking" her from person to person, she gets so excited. We really love having her around. She recognizes her name and all or our voices. She still doesn't care for the binky and will take her fingers any day!

Here are some cute pics of her.

This one is of her "talking" to us.

So about two weeks ago I did something most people would not agree with. We gave her rice cereal. I will admit we started early, earlier than I ever have before. However, her begging for food was so pathetic and it only got worse after Kami gave her a taste. Anyway, I figured we would try it and see how she did. Well she LOVES it, can't get enough. And she doesn't spit hardly any out like the other three did. I think we will stick with this for awhile before we introduce anything else, she is still young.

She opens up really wide for it.

And smiles the whole time.

She does get upset when I am done feeding her. I think she would live on the stuff if I let her. I hope this means she will be an awesome eater! And she loves to drink out of a sippy cup and water bottles. She is growing up too fast.