This was from 2 weeks ago and I still have yet to upload their 15 week picture because it's on another camera...it's coming though!
I just love her big eyes.
This is what is happening at four months:
Avery-Avery is discovering her hands! I catch her looking at them every once and a while and she goes cross eyed looking at them. She can't quite figure out how to make them work but she is grabbing and batting at things occasionally. She was 10 pounds 11 ounces 2 weeks ago and growing. Her favorite thing is still breast milk! She eats 3.5 ounces 7 times a day. I tried to sneak in a bottle of formula to her on the plane ride home since I didn't have any left because of our quick layover and she wasn't having any part of it. It keeps me more motivated to keep going! She loves her lovie more then life. It's like magic! I paci and a lovie by her face and her eyes instantly roll back. She is very very smiley. I feel like she is going to laugh any day now. She is a morning person and very grumpy at night. She likes to set her sister off! She likes to sit up but isn't quite there for sitting in the bumbo seat. She doesn't like to be put down under the activity gym for more than a few seconds at a time. She likes to be held and entertained instead. She is starting to notice Jake and Brooklynn and has smiled at both of them. Propping her bottle is a little more tricky because she likes to have her hands by her face holding on the the bottle and then she turns her head to look at us or to look at what sounds she hears. She has major meltdowns but usually it is fixed with a bottle. :) She gets up with her sister at 1:45 am like clockwork. She goes to bed at 7:30 and gets up for good around 6:45 am. She's so joyful to be around when she smiles at you. She is a beautiful little person who has blessed us in so many ways. I can't believe what a little person she is.
Brooklynn-Brooklynn is our little peanut. Last week she was 8 pounds 7 ounces. Still average weight for a newborn (on the bigger side) but 4 months old! She doesn't really like to eat very much. She eats 2 ounces 7 times a day on a good day...which isn't very much. She is very happy hanging out wherever you put her. She is pretty mellow-when she isn't being set off by her sister. Thank you, Avery! She doesn't like tummy time at all. She refuses to lift her head up past eye level even when we are playing with her but she has the most amazing head control for being so tiny. She has huge eyes that take in her whole world around her. She likes to look around and watch everything going on. She loves her paci so much and will gladly take a nap at any time. She gives some good smiles-and while they aren't given often, they are BIG smiles when she gives them up. She is a night time baby. She seems to like to be up at night and in the middle of the night. That is when we get the best smiles. She is starting to look at Jake and Avery and she watches them intently. She doesn't like to be rocked to sleep very often, she seems to like to be swaddled, given a paci, and put down, and she'll go to sleep on her own. Swaddling is magic for our tiny dancer. She loves to stand up on her tippy toes and maybe she'll like ballet. She still gets Neosure preemie formula added to my milk because she can't go without the extra calories. A couple of weeks ago I was slacking on adding the formula to my milk and she only gained 1.5 oz in a week and they would like her to have a minimum of .8 oz weight gain a week. So I am back to being very diligent with adding the calories to her milk. She also loves her bottle once a day with vitamins in it. The vitamins smell nasty but for some reason she likes the taste. I give her 3 ounces in that bottle because I know she'll drink it all! She is so sweet. I can't get enough of her. Our lives wouldn't be complete without her and I am so thankful to have her as our daughter. She is beautiful.
Four months ago at this time I was waiting for my mom, dad, and Bobby to arrive for my c-section. I was so thankful to have Heather come to support me as well. I had no idea that our lives would change as much as they have. It has been really difficult at times but so worth every second. These 2 little girls have made our lives so complete and have blessed our family so much. It's already going so fast but I am thankful that I have had the time really enjoy them.
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