We've made it through 4 months of parenthood! This past month has been really fun. She's woken up to the world. She smiles and socializes and we even heard her laugh once!
Stats: Weight: 11 lbs 5 oz -14th percentile
Height: 24.5 inches - 58th percentile
Head circumference: 40.5 cm - 35th percentile
Health: UUUUGGGGHHH! We cannot figure out this spitting up thing. We had her on Baby Zantac, then tried Baby Prevacid and neither of those really reduced the amount that she spit up. By all other accounts, she's a happy bouncing baby meeting developmental milestones, so I'm trying not to worry about it too much.
Sleep: This month has not been as beautifully predictable as last month. Sometimes she'll give us a nice stretch of sleeping 10pm-4am, and sometimes she's up every 2 hours during the night. Needless to say, this month has been a little harder on me since I'm not getting my beauty sleep.
Clothes/Diaper Size: Fitting nicely in the 0-3 month and 3 month clothes. She's a bit wee for her age, so she's not in the 3-6 month clothes yet. I think those won't be used for a few months yet.
Diet: EBF and bottle fed during the days she's at Katee's and I'm at work. Bottle feeding has gone decently well this month. We've had a few trying nights while Reezy or Bryann was watching her and I got a night off for Book Club or Holiday Ale Fest, but overall she's been eating when I'm at work. I've read that the 4 month stage can be a period of regression in her eating and sleeping habits, so I'm hoping things will get better by this time next month.
Baby Gear Love: ErgoBaby, her swing, SwaddleMe blankets, MAM pacifiers, MAM bottles (the ONLY bottle nipple we've had better success with), a carseat+stroller frame that is pretty small and stays in the car, Lights & Sounds jungle-themed play mat with dangling toys, caterpillar rattling dangling toy-thing, BundleMe super warm carseat blanket-thing
Nicknames: Callie-bug, Goo-Goo, Monkey, Spit-up Monster, Goober Boober, Babers
Favorite Songs/Lullabies: Moon River, Baby Mine, Nothing's Gonna Harm You, Silent Night, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas are the go-to lullabies this month.
The new eating song goes "Yummy yummy yummy, you got milk in your tummy, and I feel like feeding you!"
The new burping song is "You Can Burp if You Want To"
Milestones/Firsts: The holiday season lent itself to lots of first events. Callie had her first Thanksgiving - We had the whole family at the new house- Reezy, Great Grandma Lyles, Grandma 'Lainey & Grandpa Jake, David & Audy- plus our friends Connor & Jess and baby Nora.
Callie has been smiling a lot this month, putting her hands in her mouth, practicing sitting up, practicing standing, holding her head up and looking around and supporting her weight on her forearms during tummy time. Her eyes are starting to change colors. She still has a deep dark blue ring around the outsides of her irisis, but the insides are turning hazel. She's also very vocal and spends most of her play time saying "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh" and thbt-ing.
Likes: Having her diaper changed, watching me shower while she's sitting in her bouncy seat, putting her hands in her mouth, having her face wiped while I make silly noises, getting picked up out of her crib in the mornings (she smiles SO HUGE when either of us come in to get her)
Dislikes: Being sleepy, being bottle fed, not getting fed IMMEDIATELY when she decides she's hungry.
Things I Don't Want to Forget: Callie has laughed ONCE for us - Bryann was lying on the ground and was holding her up on his stomach and she let out a "haha!" and it was the CUTEST THING EVER!!! Since then we've been trying to get her to laugh again, but all she does is this extended smile/silent laugh. So frustrating!!
Her many, many smiles this month. Particularly how she smiles at me when I go to pick her up out of her crib or her swing.
The way she wobbles her head when I'm helping her sit up, or she pushes herself off of me when I'm holding her to have a look around. She looks just like a bobble head doll.
Dancing in the basement with her, singing along to the "Company" soundtrack.
Health: UUUUGGGGHHH! We cannot figure out this spitting up thing. We had her on Baby Zantac, then tried Baby Prevacid and neither of those really reduced the amount that she spit up. By all other accounts, she's a happy bouncing baby meeting developmental milestones, so I'm trying not to worry about it too much.
Sleep: This month has not been as beautifully predictable as last month. Sometimes she'll give us a nice stretch of sleeping 10pm-4am, and sometimes she's up every 2 hours during the night. Needless to say, this month has been a little harder on me since I'm not getting my beauty sleep.
Clothes/Diaper Size: Fitting nicely in the 0-3 month and 3 month clothes. She's a bit wee for her age, so she's not in the 3-6 month clothes yet. I think those won't be used for a few months yet.
Diet: EBF and bottle fed during the days she's at Katee's and I'm at work. Bottle feeding has gone decently well this month. We've had a few trying nights while Reezy or Bryann was watching her and I got a night off for Book Club or Holiday Ale Fest, but overall she's been eating when I'm at work. I've read that the 4 month stage can be a period of regression in her eating and sleeping habits, so I'm hoping things will get better by this time next month.
Baby Gear Love: ErgoBaby, her swing, SwaddleMe blankets, MAM pacifiers, MAM bottles (the ONLY bottle nipple we've had better success with), a carseat+stroller frame that is pretty small and stays in the car, Lights & Sounds jungle-themed play mat with dangling toys, caterpillar rattling dangling toy-thing, BundleMe super warm carseat blanket-thing
Nicknames: Callie-bug, Goo-Goo, Monkey, Spit-up Monster, Goober Boober, Babers
Favorite Songs/Lullabies: Moon River, Baby Mine, Nothing's Gonna Harm You, Silent Night, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas are the go-to lullabies this month.
The new eating song goes "Yummy yummy yummy, you got milk in your tummy, and I feel like feeding you!"
The new burping song is "You Can Burp if You Want To"
You can burp if you want toThe new finished feeding song is "Bye-bye boobie, boobie bye-bye"
You can leave your gas behind
'Cause your friends don't burp
And if they don't burp, well they're
No friends of mine
Milestones/Firsts: The holiday season lent itself to lots of first events. Callie had her first Thanksgiving - We had the whole family at the new house- Reezy, Great Grandma Lyles, Grandma 'Lainey & Grandpa Jake, David & Audy- plus our friends Connor & Jess and baby Nora.
First Christmas adventures- seeing the lights at The Grotto, cutting down her first Christmas tree (though she slept in the carrier the entire time), singing Christmas Carols with my choir peeps down Peacock Lane, Christmas morning and opening presents.
Callie rolled over from tummy to back several times over Thanksgiving weekend and I missed all of them until Sunday night that weekend. Then I caught this awesome video!
First accidental injury (of many in the future, I'm sure) by Samson's tail- he whipped his tail against the back of her head. She was NOT happy. Poor girl!
Callie has been smiling a lot this month, putting her hands in her mouth, practicing sitting up, practicing standing, holding her head up and looking around and supporting her weight on her forearms during tummy time. Her eyes are starting to change colors. She still has a deep dark blue ring around the outsides of her irisis, but the insides are turning hazel. She's also very vocal and spends most of her play time saying "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh" and thbt-ing.
Likes: Having her diaper changed, watching me shower while she's sitting in her bouncy seat, putting her hands in her mouth, having her face wiped while I make silly noises, getting picked up out of her crib in the mornings (she smiles SO HUGE when either of us come in to get her)
Dislikes: Being sleepy, being bottle fed, not getting fed IMMEDIATELY when she decides she's hungry.
Things I Don't Want to Forget: Callie has laughed ONCE for us - Bryann was lying on the ground and was holding her up on his stomach and she let out a "haha!" and it was the CUTEST THING EVER!!! Since then we've been trying to get her to laugh again, but all she does is this extended smile/silent laugh. So frustrating!!
Her many, many smiles this month. Particularly how she smiles at me when I go to pick her up out of her crib or her swing.
The way she wobbles her head when I'm helping her sit up, or she pushes herself off of me when I'm holding her to have a look around. She looks just like a bobble head doll.
Dancing in the basement with her, singing along to the "Company" soundtrack.
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| Spotted! Grandpa is snoozing on the job. |
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| At The Grotto with the Schlyper clan |
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| Baby and Daddy with the Christmas tree and newly painted fireplace |
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| We discovered her neck was strong enough for flying! |
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| Grandma 'Lainey and Great-Grandma Lyles |
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| Callie and Kitty chillin' out max and relaxin' all cool |
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| Sam is sniffing around hoping to discover a little puddle of spit-up. Tummy time is always good for that. |
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| Cut down our own Christmas Tree |
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| Little Elf! |
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| Family Christmas portrait |
