Green Beans are...

Green beans are not Sophia's favorite. :) The pictures below are from day one of eating green beans. The last photo is from day two of green beans. Day two was alot different, she still didn't like them but she didn't make any faces. Although she wasn't a fan, she never spit them out. She's such a good eater. Since eating the green beans early last week, she's also had carrots, squash and peas.

19 weeks...

Soph will be 19 weeks tomorrow, that sounds soo much older than 4 months. She looks older than 4 months too. It's getting harder to get her weekly pictures. They mostly involve her eating her hands, clothes, feet etc. :)

Jim and Sharon came on Saturday to spend time with us and watch Sophia so Elliott and I could go to Heather and Zac's annual Christmas party. We had alot of fun seeing all our friends. Sophia had alot of fun with grandma and grandpa.

Maya is starting to get more used to Sophia and Sophia has been watching Maya alot more too.

Daddy and his girls:

We've been feeding Soph her cereal instead of putting it in her bottle. She loves it.

Licking it off her fingers lol:

More 19 week photos:

Sweet potatoes...

Friday night (after getting the ok from Sophia's pediatrician) we gave Sophia sweet potatoes for the first time and she...LOVED them. The pictures below are out of order. The pictures in her green bumbo are from Friday and the ones in her high chair are from last night which was her second day of having sweet potatoes. From now on, she'll always be in her high chair. It's much easier.

We'll do sweet potatoes again tonight and tomorrow, then on Tuesday we're going to try green beans. We're soo excited. It's soo much fun feeding her and seeing her make all these new faces. While I love that she's eating baby food, it also makes me sad because she's getting so big. She looks like a little toddler.

Her second day of sweet potatoes:

Grandma Sharon feeding her:

She liked eating it off her hands lol:

And this face shows how much she loved it:

"Umm...hello...can I get some more sweet potatoes"

The finished product after having sweet potatoes for the first time:

After acouple bites...she loved it:

She wasn't sure at first:

Still not sure:

Her FIRST bite:

4 month check up

On Friday we had Sophia's 4 month appt. She did great. First, they weighed her and got her measurements. Here's her stats:

Height: 25 inches - 76th percentile

Weight: 16 pounds 6 ozs - 91st percentile

Head: 16.5 inches - 61st percentile

Sophia has grown soo much since her last check up at 2 months. She has gotten over 2 inches longer so maybe she won't be a shorty like her mama. :)

Just like her last appt. she did great with her shots and vaccinations. She loved the stuff she had to drink just like last time.

18 weeks

Sophia is getting soo big. We're super excited for her 4 month check up on Friday. It seems like she's doing something new every day. She loves laughing at Elliott. He can get her cracking up. I love her little laugh.

18 week photos:

This outfit is 9 months, however she's wearing 3-6 month shoes. She has little feet like her mama. :)

She loves pulling her shirt up and eating it.

I try to read her one or two books every night before bed. She's getting better at this and I've been able to finish books where acouple weeks ago i'd only get through acouple pages.

She LOVES playing in this gym thing and she can touch the ground now.

Trip to see Santa = success

We took Sophia to see Santa yesterday for the first time. We weren't sure how she'd react but she was really good. She just sat on his lap like it was no big deal. We'll see how this changes next year. :)

First pic with Santa:

Waiting in line to see Santa is tiring:

At home before we went to the mall:

Playing peek-a-boo:

4 months old

Sophia turned 4 months on Thursday and I think this picture says it all:

What a difference one month makes. This past month has been soo much fun. We're really seeing her personality. She's smiling more, giggling and working on more milestones. She can really brighten any day with her smile.

Stats:
Weight:
Birth- 7 pounds 8 ozs
one month - 11 pounds 8 ozs
two months - 13 pounds 5 ozs
three months - 14 pounds 5 ozs
four months - 17 pounds (this is by our scale, I'll update after her appt. on Friday)

Clothes: she's wearing acouple 6 months, 6-9 months and some 9 months. It all depends on the brand. One pair of jammies are 9 months and aren't too big...they are her Christmas jammies and I'm hoping they'll still fit her for Christmas. I'm blaming the dryer. :) Still in size 2 diapers but only for acouple more days. Then we're going to size 3.

Food: Sophia is eating 6 -7 ozs every couple hours during the morning/day/evening and cereal at night before bed. She's still getting about 75% breast milk but 25% formula because I cannot keep up with her. She's our little chunky monkey.

Sleep: She's been a great sleeper. During the week she's kind of on a schedule and normally gets tired around 8:30 p.m. and is asleep in her crib by 8:45. She'll sleep through the night until 7:45 a.m. or sometimes 8. I think just one night this past week she woke up around 2 a.m. to eat. Other than that she normally sleeps through the night and for at least 10-12 hours.

Activities: She loves playing on her mat, or on a blanket on the floor with her toys. She grabbing more toys and putting EVERYTHING in her mouth. She's talking (baby talk) more and giggling which is fun and has recently starting rolling over. On Thursday (the day she turned 4 months) she rolled from her belly to back, then last night she rolled from her back to belly. We were soo proud of her. She also loves being in her Baby Einstein jumping gym thing. It sings, teaches her spanish, colors, shapes etc. She's still a little short for it, but she still loves it.

Likes: eating her hands, sitting up, mat time, baths, watching Maya run around her and bark

Dislikes: getting dressed and undressed, headbands, wearing socks, shoes or bibs and laying on her stomach. She also doesn't like sitting in her bumbo chair for very long. She'll stretch and try to get out of it.

Here's her 4 month pictures:

She's had a cold for the past couple weeks and we've tried everything. We bathe her with the Vicks stuff, puts Vicks vapor rub on her chest and feet, we have a Vicks plug in that releases vapors in the air, her mattress is elevated, we put this saline spray in her nose several times a day and we've taken her to the pediatrician once or twice but they said she's fine. We're hoping she'll get past it soon.

We also think she's super close to cutting a tooth or possibly two. She has been slobbering like crazy. So much so that I've tried several different bibs to keep her dry. First, she was wearing all the cute ones, then I decided to get her waterproof, well those were tight around her neck so I bought new ones that are waterproof but are also for babies 6-24 months. We're hoping these will be the ones.