Amelia at 4 months

My mom has a wonderful baby book for me. My young brother's baby book has a few pictures stuff in it and his name on the front--this is about it. I always thought how unfair it is for a second child and I would never do that. Well, from the blog you can tell that I'm following right in my mom's foot prints.

Amelia at 4 months has really started to have a personality. She definitely gets the giggles at points and enjoys laughing lots. She has also started to recognize people. She gives a big smile when her dad, mom, or nanny Martha comes over. She is either scared or happy to see Stanley. Sometimes she is definitely a little reticent about having Stanley around; he has started to 'play' with her. It usually involves him pulling her arms in different directions to pretend push him and then he falls. I'm going to guess Amelia is going to either learn to run the other way or become pretty strong.

She is also on the move. I think her neck control is pretty amazing and she moves quite a bit. Her ability to move looks strange because she is so little. Her height is 50%, but her weight comes in at ~10%. 4 days before her 4 month appointment, she weighed in at 11 lbs 9oz. When we were in the store weighing her, a lady with a 10 week old kid came up and said "A new little one". If most people said that to me, I'd agree, but it was odd coming from someone with a 10 week old kid. I had to say that she is just little since her baby at 10 week old weighed 15 lbs. Amelia's little nannyshare partner John is ~18lbs, so Amelia is going to need to be strong to hold her own against Stanley and John.

Amelia can also melt people's hearts--of course she melts her families hearts, but also people we do not know. Because she looks so small, but she can put on a huge smile, people don't expect the smile and just ooh and ahh over her. I went in for a doctors appointment to ask about her weight (and her endless spitting-up). The doctor said that we have a laundry problem now, but we are going to have a bigger problem with her lady with her big smile, her blue eyes, and red eye.

Amelia at 4 months old.

Can
- Make lots of gargling sounds
- Laugh lots
- Hold onto toys for about 1 minute
-Get most almost any toy into her mouth
- Make people (Even strangers walking down the street melt).
-Sleep through the night for 4 of 5 nights. At least this was for her entire 3 month age. The day she turned 4 months old, she decided to start eating again at 3am)
- Hit things or pick up things from her gym or from the floor
- Roll 360 degrees over. (Usually to her right)
- Scoot on tummy time.
- Get her knees under her body


Loves
- Being in the Becco carrier facing in and out
- Watching the fan
- Nursing
- Mortimer the moose
- Sophie
- Her dangling thing gym
- Standing


Dislikes
- The car
- When she has a burp
- The Moby Wrap (this was Stanley's favorite)
- If she has to wait to get milk
- Did I mention the car...she is not at all bothered by crying for 45+ minutes. She doesn't mind the car seat because the moment you take her car seat out of the car, she is perfectly happy.