Caroline Jane ~ Four Months

This girl will not smile for a camera.  Oh my.  Her poor face pretty much sums up her attitude the last couple weeks.  She was sick a couple weeks ago, then got her DOC band, and now I think she has an ear infection.  She's just pitiful.  And so are her sleep habits.  She tricked me in the beginning into thinking she was going to be a great sleeper.  We'll get there.  Slowly.  Jackson and Charley usually look a lot alike but this month's comparisons don't really show it.  JJ wins the More Flattering Pictures award for the fourth month.

 

 Caroline Jane, at four months you:

• weigh close to 16 pounds.  We'll know for sure on Thursday after your appointment.
• wear a size 2 diaper.
• wear size 6 month clothes.  You have a few things that are 3-6 months but you're mostly done with that.  Some of your sleepers are even 6-9 month.
• are wearing your DOC band full time now.  You wear it 23 hours a day.  Your one hour of head freedom is for a bath at night.  Boy is your head stinky after 23 hours in a helmet.
• have the best laugh.  You are pretty stingy with it though.  You give the most laughs right when you wake up from a nap and are getting a diaper change.
• don't really have a schedule right now.  Somehow what we had going stopped working for you.  Mommy thinks you might have some reflux that we are going to get checked out at the doctor.  Jackson's activities have us out of the house a lot and it makes it hard for you to get a good nap and fall into a schedule.
• drink about 30oz of formula a day.  It's usually split across 5 or 6 bottles.
• are really unpredictable at night.  You have slept all night a couple times and there are nights when you wake up every hour.  I can usually just put your pacifier back in and you go back to sleep.  When that helmet comes off, we are going to have to work on the paci thing.
• have gotten much stronger with your physical therapy.  The doctor told us we didn't have to go anymore.  You definitely won't win any muscle contests but you aren't quite so wobbly anymore.

 

We're ready for Winter.  You've stored plenty of food. :)