4 Months Old

Miss Zuri turned 4 months old today. She is one cute little thing that gives us lots of big smiles and cooing. She thoroughly enjoys the attention she gathers everywhere we go when she flashes her smiles around. We also get a lot of comments on her long wisps of hair. We are in full swing of that awkward baby hair stage- short on top, long at the crown, little bit of mullet in the back. :) I need to do some trimming, but we waited so long for Rori to get any hair that it is hard to take away any of Zuri's. The long hair is dark, but the new stuff coming in looks like it might be light.

She still likes to be held and have Mommy or Daddy in site a little more than we would prefer, but we are getting a bit more breaks from the play mat, swing, and bouncy seat. She has spent quite a lot of time being shuffled around in the car seat over the last few weeks as we've been figuring out the school routine with Kai and Rori. I'm hoping this will help her learn to like the car seat a little better. Her hands are in her mouth quite a lot these days. This plus an occasional first drippy nose and lots of drooling make us wonder if the teething process is beginning.

Our great sleeper has decided to mess with Mom and Dad some over the last few weeks. We've been trying to determine if this is due to the possible beginning of teething, or due to us having to alter her nap schedule due to the other kids school, or due to the fact that she's sleeping with a binky, or due to the fact that she might be thinking about starting to try some food other than milk, or due to the fact that she seems to like to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, or due to the fact that we are still swaddling her, etc.

Fortunately the immediate solutions of popping back in the binky or a quick diaper change in the dark is all it has required. Not a huge deal unless she decides to do this several times in one night which she has done a few times. I know we have been extremely blessed by her sleeping so well up until this point, but it has been a little extra frustrating because she did do it so well for so long. Next we will try taking out her 10:30pm feed and not popping the binky back in. Then we can deal with not being swaddled, her rolling over and waking herself up, and all the other things that can mess up sleep as they come. This is one of the tricky things about the newborn stage for me. Things can so quickly go awry and figuring out why isn't always easy. Lance and I have both commented that it is hard to be frustrated with her for too long because she's really good at flashing you a huge grin- even in the middle of the night.

After one particularly long night last week I heard this song for the first time on the radio on the way to school.



It won't be like this for long applies to lots of different aspects of life. Sometimes you want to speed through parts and other times you just want to soak in the moment. Who knew Hootie sings country now? Well probably lots of people other than me. :)

We love this little one and are excited to be watching her develop more and more in to her own little personality.

Here are Zuri's 4 month stats:

Height: 26 inches; 97%

Weight: 14.3lbs; 55%
(she's dropped % quite a bit in weight to be right on target with the %'s of her siblings at a similar age.)