Four months

Caroline is now four months old. She is a very happy baby with occasional crying when tired, cold or hungry. We see lots of sweet baby smiles at the Walles house now and its beautiful!

Weight: 12 lbs 3 oz.  (17%)
Height: 24 1/2 inches (48%)

She is even smaller than big brother at this age! He was 12 lbs 9 oz at 4 months.

Likes: Caroline loves all of her baby toys, with her favorite still being the crawl ball that moves on its own in different directions. She can reach her hands out and pick up a toy in front of her, enjoys looking in mirrors and really loves books. Yay! She adores her big brother and any time he talks to her, sings to her or plays with her she just beams. It is so very cute! Caroline still loves bath time and is also still quite content sitting in her bouncy seat and laying on her play mat.

Her music preferences still consist of anything relaxing but the last couple of nights before putting her to bed she has become very irritated that I have waited so long to feed her and say good night. So at 8 o'clock when I try to get her to eat one last time she is already exhausted and will not eat resulting in lots of tears and screaming. Evan will come and save the day by taking her to listen to Kenny Rogers, 'Just Dropped In', from the Big Lebowski movie. She immediately calms down and falls asleep listening to this:

So we are now trying to put her to bed between 7 and 7:30. Not that the song isn't great and all. 

Dislikes: Well, clearly being tired, hungry or cold. These are the top three culprits of any fussiness. She will also voice her opinion if she is bored looking at her toys. 

Skills: Beginning this week Caroline can now blow raspberries. When Grammie was here on Monday she started blowing them at Liam, he would laugh at her and she would keep right on doing it. She is very good at scooting herself around so that she is facing the complete opposite direction of where you laid her. Rolling over from tummy to back is still possible but she doesn't do it often. She still loves her two middle fingers and puts herself to sleep almost every time. She now takes a morning nap around 9 or 10 and sleeps for 1-2 hours. Then also taking another nap around 1:00 pm and again sleeping from 1-3 hours. 

Caroline wants to eat every 3-4 hours during the day and every 4-6 hours at night. We moved her into her own room a couple of weeks ago thinking that maybe she would sleep longer during the night but that has not been a successful experiment. 

I think she's got the Liam stare down pat!

Always munching on those fingers