14 pounds - 50th percentile
26 inches - 97 percentile
Mom and Daddy cannot believe how much I've grown since I was born... they can't imagine I was ever littler than I am now!
I've learned so much this past month! I can now hold my head up for several minutes while I do tummy time....
I can reach out and grab all my toys - and bring them all to my mouth to chew on! :) .....
and the biggest accomplishment of all - I rolled over from my back to my tummy! Well, sort of.... I still get my arm caught where I'm not fully on my tummy, but I got the general idea of rolling over :) I mostly just like to rock back and forth from side to side on my play mat looking at all my toys though.
I LOVE to be on the move. When someone is holding me I'm not very content for long if we are just sitting still, I need to be up walking around - well carried around, but I smile so big because I know I'm directing things already! :) I'm eating just a little bit more now, I have three six ounce bottles and two 5 1/2 ounce bottles a day which I eat in about 10 minutes flat and give a HUGE burp at the end. Then I smile to myself at the loud noise I just made!
I have a pretty good sense of humor, sometimes out of nowhere I'll be sitting with Mommy or Daddy and just giggle to myself for awhile. I smile at my parents all the time, well pretty much anyone who smiles at me gets my huge gummy grin. I'm just happy to be here!! I'm still loving my play mat, and been checking out my new toy they call a Jumper, but the more I play with it the more I like it!
I can't sit up on my own of course, but I love sitting up in people's laps... I'm not really a fan of being held like a baby anymore, unless I'm really sleepy. I've got this little chair thats just my size, but I don't really like being in it too long yet. I'm thinking when I start solids in a month or two I'll be more ready to sit by myself.
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| I have a lot of cute clothes I promise, I don't know why there are so many diaper only pictures! |
I'm really good at entertaining myself and am content in my bouncer or swing as long as I can still see someone around. I'm starting to get a little attached to my parents, I love grabbing hold of their shirts (or hair or necklace) when they hold me, and start to fuss if I've been left alone for a few minutes or can't see anyone paying attention to me.
If I wake up from my nap early, most of the time Mom and Dad don't even know because I'll just lay there chewing on my hands or grabbing my feet until they come check on me and Surprise! I'm up! Speaking of, I will chew on any and everything. I have two favorite toys, my lamb rattle and bumble bee rattle. Oh and also my parents hands... they are fascinating and I usually will just grab them to play with when they're holding me.
I wake up at 7 and dad feeds me my first bottle. I talk and sing with Mom while she gets ready for work then she loads up the car, usually forgets something and has to turn around, but eventually I get to day care! I'm all smiles for my teachers and have a blast all day with my friends! I eat every 3 - 3 1/2 hours and Mom comes to pick me up sometime between 3 and 5 in the afternoon depending on her schedule. Dad comes home around 6:30 so we get to play for awhile before I take a quick nap, then bathtime and last bottle around 8. Dad reads me my story every night - and I've started trying to turn the pages myself because they're so colorful! - and then I get all swaddled up, my CD of lullabies turned on and lights out at 8:30!!! So I get about 11 hours of sleep a night - yes that's right, you're very welcome parents.
Weekends are the best though because we get to go shopping, or take walks around the park and see all our friends! I'm very set in my schedule though, pretty much the only time I get fussy is when I am late for my nap.
Last week we had a very big day in the car and saw lots of family, Thanksgiving. I don't know what the fuss is about but I had to wear huge bows and shoes, and take A LOT of pictures so I missed some nap time! Don't mess with my schedule people or I will wake up crying in the middle of the night!! It was fun seeing all my family! In the morning we went to Grandy and Grandad's house ....
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| Grandad, Cameron and Grandy |
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| Peggy (My dad's grandma) |
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| Family pic! |
Then in the afternoon we went to Doc & Sau-Sau's in Midlothian...
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| La-Shea and Scott |
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| Uncle Ross |
I also got to meet a special friend, Declan Norris, who is just one day older than me! Here I am with his grandma, Mrs. Norris. Declan's grandparents are great friends of Doc and Sau-Sau... Doc went to high school with Mr. Norris then reconnected when they moved to Midlothian right after my Mom was born.
I loved my first Thanksgiving and getting to hang out with Uncle Neal the next morning before he went back to college!
Oh, how could I forget to mention? Earlier this month I made my longest car trip down to Houston to meet some of Mommy's friends down there and new friends Brooks and Jack. Brooks was born just 3 days before me, we had so much shopping with our moms and playing together all weekend! I also got to meet Stu, Briana and Jack who is a few months older and Mom's friend Laura. Mom brought all our cameras but left them all in the hotel room, so didn't get any pictures with Jack, Briana or Laura :(
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| Liz, Brooks, Me and Mommy - don't mind my socks, we had to do a last minute outfit change :) |
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| Holding hands! |
I didn't do so well Friday night sleeping in the hotel and kept wakign up every few hours... I warned my parents not to mess with nap time :) But I slept all night Saturday night so they could rest up for the drive home...
This has definitely been a great month and lots of new tricks up my sleeve for month five!!
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