Month 4- October 11th - November 11th
Things continue to go well with little Zoey. I love being a mom so much and I’m so happy that I have this whole year off and don’t have to go back to work until September. I have even started to have the itch to have another baby! It’s a really strong itch too. If it weren’t for the fact that it wouldn’t really work out financially, I’d want to get pregnant again right away. And surprisingly enough, Joe feels the same way. We don’t talk about it all the time, but he has made comments here and there about wanting to have another one fairly soon. We’ll see though…I really don’t think that we should start trying until Zoey is around a year old because that way I would be able to work and hopefully save money up to be able to stay home for a while with baby #2!
Okay, before I get ahead of myself talking about baby # 2, back to Zoey. One big thing that has happened is that she has started to laugh a little bit. I didn’t really recognize that it was a laugh at first because it sounds more like a squeak - so cute though! She will open up her mouth really wide and smile and sometimes make this little squeaking sound. Not your typical laugh, but it’s adorable. She will laugh when I hold her on my lap under her arms and bounce her up and down. She loves it!
Also, she discovered her hands this month and is all about them. She really wants to be able to suck her thumb, but hasn’t quite mastered it yet. She pretty much sticks her whole hand into her mouth and will suck on whatever finger she gets hold of. Sometimes it’s her thumb, sometimes her pointer, sometimes it’s a few fingers at a time.
As far as sleep goes, she seems to have digressed a little bit. She isn’t sleeping through the night quite as consistently. Sometimes she wakes up around 3 or so to eat. She’s still sleeping in the cradle in our room and I really feel like we should move her to the crib because she is starting to be more sensitive to noises like us getting into bed or the dog making noises. We tried one night to put her in her own room - I had her all settled in and asleep (in the cradle, but in her own room) and then I said to Joe that it felt weird having her in there and he said he thinks that she should still sleep in our room. I never expected for him to be that way, but he said that he would feel more comfortable leaving her in with us for a while longer. So we did But now I am feeling like we really need to make the transition sometime soon before she gets too used to sleeping in the same room with us and it’s hard to get her into the crib. But it makes me really sad to think about not having her in the same room with us. It’s not like her room is very far away - it’s so close that we probably wouldn’t even need to use the monitor to hear her. But, I really like being able to wake up and see her sleeping there next to me. We’ll see…Joe says that he wants to keep her in the room with us for another two months. I’m not really sure what he’s basing that on, but he says that he likes having her there with us. I think it’s cute :)
Hmm…what else? She’s still not rolling over, although she will tolerate being on her tummy for longer periods of time now. She loves to lay on the little rainforest play mat that she has and kick her legs like crazy. She will kind of roll onto her side in order to be able to see her toys, but she isn’t rolling onto her tummy yet.
Oh and one last thing, it was Zoey’s first Halloween. She had a little pumpkin costume that I thought was really adorable. We didn’t do anything much, just went to my sister’s house and my parents and grandparents came over to see her in her costume.
I think that’s about it for her 4th month…Oh she had her 4 month appt today (11-11) and she weighs about 15 lbs and is about 25 inches. 87th percentile for her height and 90th for her weight. All looks good. The doctor said that she seems very strong for her age with holding her head up and pulling herself up to standing when you hold her hands. He called her “strong as an ox”. He said that we can start to think about giving her cereal sometime soon, definitely by six months. So I’m not sure when we will decide to introduce it to her. It seems crazy that she is almost already ready to start eating!
Things continue to go well with little Zoey. I love being a mom so much and I’m so happy that I have this whole year off and don’t have to go back to work until September. I have even started to have the itch to have another baby! It’s a really strong itch too. If it weren’t for the fact that it wouldn’t really work out financially, I’d want to get pregnant again right away. And surprisingly enough, Joe feels the same way. We don’t talk about it all the time, but he has made comments here and there about wanting to have another one fairly soon. We’ll see though…I really don’t think that we should start trying until Zoey is around a year old because that way I would be able to work and hopefully save money up to be able to stay home for a while with baby #2!
Okay, before I get ahead of myself talking about baby # 2, back to Zoey. One big thing that has happened is that she has started to laugh a little bit. I didn’t really recognize that it was a laugh at first because it sounds more like a squeak - so cute though! She will open up her mouth really wide and smile and sometimes make this little squeaking sound. Not your typical laugh, but it’s adorable. She will laugh when I hold her on my lap under her arms and bounce her up and down. She loves it!
Also, she discovered her hands this month and is all about them. She really wants to be able to suck her thumb, but hasn’t quite mastered it yet. She pretty much sticks her whole hand into her mouth and will suck on whatever finger she gets hold of. Sometimes it’s her thumb, sometimes her pointer, sometimes it’s a few fingers at a time.
As far as sleep goes, she seems to have digressed a little bit. She isn’t sleeping through the night quite as consistently. Sometimes she wakes up around 3 or so to eat. She’s still sleeping in the cradle in our room and I really feel like we should move her to the crib because she is starting to be more sensitive to noises like us getting into bed or the dog making noises. We tried one night to put her in her own room - I had her all settled in and asleep (in the cradle, but in her own room) and then I said to Joe that it felt weird having her in there and he said he thinks that she should still sleep in our room. I never expected for him to be that way, but he said that he would feel more comfortable leaving her in with us for a while longer. So we did But now I am feeling like we really need to make the transition sometime soon before she gets too used to sleeping in the same room with us and it’s hard to get her into the crib. But it makes me really sad to think about not having her in the same room with us. It’s not like her room is very far away - it’s so close that we probably wouldn’t even need to use the monitor to hear her. But, I really like being able to wake up and see her sleeping there next to me. We’ll see…Joe says that he wants to keep her in the room with us for another two months. I’m not really sure what he’s basing that on, but he says that he likes having her there with us. I think it’s cute :)
Hmm…what else? She’s still not rolling over, although she will tolerate being on her tummy for longer periods of time now. She loves to lay on the little rainforest play mat that she has and kick her legs like crazy. She will kind of roll onto her side in order to be able to see her toys, but she isn’t rolling onto her tummy yet.
Oh and one last thing, it was Zoey’s first Halloween. She had a little pumpkin costume that I thought was really adorable. We didn’t do anything much, just went to my sister’s house and my parents and grandparents came over to see her in her costume.
I think that’s about it for her 4th month…Oh she had her 4 month appt today (11-11) and she weighs about 15 lbs and is about 25 inches. 87th percentile for her height and 90th for her weight. All looks good. The doctor said that she seems very strong for her age with holding her head up and pulling herself up to standing when you hold her hands. He called her “strong as an ox”. He said that we can start to think about giving her cereal sometime soon, definitely by six months. So I’m not sure when we will decide to introduce it to her. It seems crazy that she is almost already ready to start eating!
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