Our little "Bee Ava" is 4 (and a half) months old.
She's a fun little teeny girl. She loves to goo-goo. She squeals a lot-sometimes when she's mad, sometimes when she's happy, and sometimes just to get my attention. Sometimes it's cute, and sometimes it's not :) She's super smiley! She'll smile at everybody-pretty much all you have to do is look at her! She thinks Porter is hilarious. She's always laughing at him. She grabs stuff with her hands and tries to put it in her mouth (sometimes she misses). She's really drooly and still a spitter upper. She likes to cuddle and be held all the time.
She started rolling over about a month ago. I took the two big kids and one of Chloe's little friends to a movie, and my sister in law (thanks Jennie!!) came over to watch the two little ones. When I got home, she said "how long has she been rolling over?" I was a little sad I missed it, but it was pretty awesome that she was already rolling over! She pretty much does it all the time now, and always from her back to her tummy. I've only seen her roll back over once.
She sometimes gets mad after she rolls over. If she could roll herself back over, I think she'd be a little happier :)
And...
She started eating rice cereal last week. She did so great with it! She's definitely my best eater. She caught onto nursing right away (the others had trouble getting down the suck, swallow, breath rhythm-they'd squeak and then have to cough), and now she's gotten down the eating-food-off-a-spoon thing really quickly; which is nice, because it frees me up a little :)
I love when they first start to eat off a spoon. I think it's cute how they have to learn it. They try to suck the food from the spoon and use their tongues a lot. It's just cute.
She got her 4 month shots yesterday, so she isn't feeling awesome today. Poor beebee. She's had a bit of Tylenol (I hate to give her that, but I don't want her to hurt either), but she just doesn't feel well.
Ava's 4 (and a half) month stats:
height: 26 3/4" (96th)
weight: 15.2 lbs (66th)
head: 40.5cm (23rd-still a tiny little head)
In other news...
School starts in just over 3 weeks. I can't even believe it. We haven't gotten our letter to see who Portie's teacher is going to be. I kinda hope it's not the same one Chloe had. I didn't mind her, but I feel like Port needs a teacher who is more enthusiastic and fun; which Chloe's kindergarten teacher was not. Speaking of Porter...he's wearing me out! Sometimes he's such a little sweetheart, and then other times, I feel like I just want to rip my hair out! He suddenly decided to be really snotty to me...like he just gets this snotty voice and says snotty things. I hate that! He sometimes throws a fit like a 2 year old, and lays on the floor. I just don't know! He does much better when we don't get too mad and yell at him, but at the same time, how do you not when he's being such a butt?!? Matt says it's normal-he's a boy and he's not going to be as sweet as Chloe was at that age. Really? Is it normal? If it is, it's going to be a long few years because I've got another one following right behind him! He's been kind of great these last few days though. But, man!, the last couple of weeks have been rough. I guess we all have our days. He wants to ride the bus to school. That makes me nervous! He's just a leetle boy! Chloe's not excited about school to start; which is kind of weird for her. She's just loving summer so much, I think. Once she gets her new school clothes, she'll be way more excited-yeah, that oughtta do it, she is MY child after all :) Also, she wants a new bike. We've talked about getting her a bigger one, but probably not 'til next summer. Then her little friend across the street got a bigger bike for her birthday, and now "my bike's too little, I need a new bike, everybody has a bigger bike than me, can't I get one for my birthday?" is all we hear. I told her next summer. Then we hear "UGH!" and her whole spiel again. We told her she's going to probably get baptizey things for her birthday (which would normally include scriptures, scripture pencils, a CTR ring, things of that sort). That really makes her upset. She says she doesn't want scriptures because she can't even understand them-which makes me a little sad. My sis in law (Amberlee) pointed out that those could be baptism gifts, and the bike could be a birthday gift. Duh! Great idea! That's probably what we'll do, but don't tell Chloe. We'll keep letting her think she's not getting a bike 'til next year. ;)
Also...
I have my 10 year high school reunion coming up in September in Texas. Matt and I were planning on going, but now I'm not too sure about it. I'm a little nervous about leaving my 3 babies home with Grandma. I hate to be away from my kids. I left them over night for the first time just last year (we'd been married for almost 8 years at the time). I always feel guilty when somebody watches my kids, and I'm a little nervous for both of us (and Ava) to fly at the same time! What if something happens? We'd have 3 little orphans. It scares me. So I say no, we're not going. But then I start thinking about all the people that I'd love to see and catch up with, and I say, yes, we're definitely going! Except I had a dream the other night that I ran into one of my old classmates (who I even went to elementary and junior high with), and he just kind of was like hi, and then ignored me and kept scooting away from me! Is that a sign that we shouldn't go? Ugh, I just don't know!
She's a fun little teeny girl. She loves to goo-goo. She squeals a lot-sometimes when she's mad, sometimes when she's happy, and sometimes just to get my attention. Sometimes it's cute, and sometimes it's not :) She's super smiley! She'll smile at everybody-pretty much all you have to do is look at her! She thinks Porter is hilarious. She's always laughing at him. She grabs stuff with her hands and tries to put it in her mouth (sometimes she misses). She's really drooly and still a spitter upper. She likes to cuddle and be held all the time.
She started rolling over about a month ago. I took the two big kids and one of Chloe's little friends to a movie, and my sister in law (thanks Jennie!!) came over to watch the two little ones. When I got home, she said "how long has she been rolling over?" I was a little sad I missed it, but it was pretty awesome that she was already rolling over! She pretty much does it all the time now, and always from her back to her tummy. I've only seen her roll back over once.
She sometimes gets mad after she rolls over. If she could roll herself back over, I think she'd be a little happier :)
And...
She started eating rice cereal last week. She did so great with it! She's definitely my best eater. She caught onto nursing right away (the others had trouble getting down the suck, swallow, breath rhythm-they'd squeak and then have to cough), and now she's gotten down the eating-food-off-a-spoon thing really quickly; which is nice, because it frees me up a little :)
I love when they first start to eat off a spoon. I think it's cute how they have to learn it. They try to suck the food from the spoon and use their tongues a lot. It's just cute.
She got her 4 month shots yesterday, so she isn't feeling awesome today. Poor beebee. She's had a bit of Tylenol (I hate to give her that, but I don't want her to hurt either), but she just doesn't feel well.
Ava's 4 (and a half) month stats:
height: 26 3/4" (96th)
weight: 15.2 lbs (66th)
head: 40.5cm (23rd-still a tiny little head)
In other news...
School starts in just over 3 weeks. I can't even believe it. We haven't gotten our letter to see who Portie's teacher is going to be. I kinda hope it's not the same one Chloe had. I didn't mind her, but I feel like Port needs a teacher who is more enthusiastic and fun; which Chloe's kindergarten teacher was not. Speaking of Porter...he's wearing me out! Sometimes he's such a little sweetheart, and then other times, I feel like I just want to rip my hair out! He suddenly decided to be really snotty to me...like he just gets this snotty voice and says snotty things. I hate that! He sometimes throws a fit like a 2 year old, and lays on the floor. I just don't know! He does much better when we don't get too mad and yell at him, but at the same time, how do you not when he's being such a butt?!? Matt says it's normal-he's a boy and he's not going to be as sweet as Chloe was at that age. Really? Is it normal? If it is, it's going to be a long few years because I've got another one following right behind him! He's been kind of great these last few days though. But, man!, the last couple of weeks have been rough. I guess we all have our days. He wants to ride the bus to school. That makes me nervous! He's just a leetle boy! Chloe's not excited about school to start; which is kind of weird for her. She's just loving summer so much, I think. Once she gets her new school clothes, she'll be way more excited-yeah, that oughtta do it, she is MY child after all :) Also, she wants a new bike. We've talked about getting her a bigger one, but probably not 'til next summer. Then her little friend across the street got a bigger bike for her birthday, and now "my bike's too little, I need a new bike, everybody has a bigger bike than me, can't I get one for my birthday?" is all we hear. I told her next summer. Then we hear "UGH!" and her whole spiel again. We told her she's going to probably get baptizey things for her birthday (which would normally include scriptures, scripture pencils, a CTR ring, things of that sort). That really makes her upset. She says she doesn't want scriptures because she can't even understand them-which makes me a little sad. My sis in law (Amberlee) pointed out that those could be baptism gifts, and the bike could be a birthday gift. Duh! Great idea! That's probably what we'll do, but don't tell Chloe. We'll keep letting her think she's not getting a bike 'til next year. ;)
Also...
I have my 10 year high school reunion coming up in September in Texas. Matt and I were planning on going, but now I'm not too sure about it. I'm a little nervous about leaving my 3 babies home with Grandma. I hate to be away from my kids. I left them over night for the first time just last year (we'd been married for almost 8 years at the time). I always feel guilty when somebody watches my kids, and I'm a little nervous for both of us (and Ava) to fly at the same time! What if something happens? We'd have 3 little orphans. It scares me. So I say no, we're not going. But then I start thinking about all the people that I'd love to see and catch up with, and I say, yes, we're definitely going! Except I had a dream the other night that I ran into one of my old classmates (who I even went to elementary and junior high with), and he just kind of was like hi, and then ignored me and kept scooting away from me! Is that a sign that we shouldn't go? Ugh, I just don't know!
