4 Months (and a week...or two) with Suzanna Grace

Age:  Oh. My. Word. This precious baby is 4 months old.  Where did my newborn go? This month brought on so many "first" and fun changes.

Weekly Updates:

Weight: 13 pounds 5 ounces 

Height: 24 inches  Girlie, you grew a little over 2 inches since our last doctors appointment!  Go girl!

Diaper Size: Size 1 but only until we finish the box and then we are going to move up to Size 2.  

Clothes Size: Within the past 2 weeks your 3 month clothes seem to really fit.  You are long enough for them and your sweet little thighs fill out the leg holes so much better than before.  Mommy has been known to be a pro at shirking clothes in the wash...but I think it's really just because you are growing!

Shoe Size: Summer Toes only...babies don't wear shoes.  Aunt MA did order you some fall mocosains though!

Schedule: Let's be honest here...it's summer time and who needs a strict schedule.  We basically do the 3 hour routine of eat, play, sleep beginning whenever you wake up (usually between 6-7:30) and sometimes cluster feed at night because you're tired.  You will typically go to sleep as early as 8:30 but as late as 10 depending what's going on.  You sleep really well at night though and are such a happy baby that I think that what we have going for us is working.  Maybe, when I go back to work, we will have something a little more routine but for now our loosey-goosey schedule works and still allows us to go-go-go and enjoy our summer!

Fun Facts and Milestones:

• You had your first day/few hours at "school" with Susana this month and Mommy was sad.  I sat in my car for 10 minutes thinking about whether I should leave you since I didn't really have anything to do.  It was a good trial run and you took a bottle from Susana!  She said that you talked and talked and had a great time.  You were even napping when I came to pick you up. You wore a beautiful smocked gown, fancy panties, and a bow in your hair but when I picked you up, Susana told me that you were too cold and needed pants.  It is my personal opinion that you should wear your fancy clothes everyday...not just on special occasions.  And, let's be honest, you don't really have "play clothes" just yet.  I'll get you some skinny jeans this fall.  

 

• Girlie, your life is amazing!  To celebrate your first day at school and Mommy being brave enough to leave you, we met Daddy downtown at Millennium Park for a picnic and concert.

 

 

• We celebrated the 4th of July out on Toes' boat with the whole crew and then on the docks with the Nappers.  We had quite the weekend! 

• Our good buddy Epstein is moving to Denver so we spent the month helping him check things off of his "Chicago Bucket List."  Downtown concerts, outdoor adventures, and eating out at fun restaurants was not a bad way to see him off. 

 

• Well...this speaks for itself.

 

• We lunched and dined with friends a lot this month as it was our first full month of Chicago summer where we weren't traveling back to MS.  

• Mommy and Daddy had a night out...the first since you've been born.  Susana came over to our house to keep you and you did great! We celebrated the Fallon and "Val-tad"'s engagements but never stopped to take a picture of just the two of us.  Surely we will get better at documenting ourselves as time goes on. 

 

• That same weekend, we celebrated our 5 year anniversary with lunch and a full day of activities! Selfies sure are silly.  

• We also said good-bye to the Nappers with a fun day at Parson's Chicken.  Friend Aunt Leslie and Brad sure are going to miss their girlie.

  

• We had your Sip and See and Baby Dedication back in Mississippi this month.  Oh what fun we had visiting with Aunt MA and Jessica in Memphis, swinging at JJ and J-Pops house, and playing with Elsie Lee at SuSu and Daddy B's.  You got to meet LOTS of JJ and SuSu's friends at the Sip and See.  Once I get all of our pictures back, I'll write more about the Baby Dedication but the highlights include you wearing the most gorgeous gown ever made. 

 

• We have also found a great "New Moms and Babies" group through our hospital and meet up with our new friends several times a week.  You love "playing" with your new friends and are learning so much from them.    

 

• You really started belly laughing this month.  You have always yelled and made noises that we thought were you getting tickled but these laughs are for sure belly laughs.  I now spend my whole day trying to get you to laugh.  It melts my heart. 

• We bought you a Johnny Jump Up and you love it.  You are still a little too small for it so you can really only bounce with one foot.  You are growing in to it though. 

• You are so strong.  You love to stand up whenever someone is playing with you.  You look around and search out new things.  I could not get over how, with help, you could move from sitting to standing in early July.  Slow down girlie!

• You are so inquisitive and are always searching the world around you.  Even when you play by yourself you smile and giggle.  I often wonder what you think about and because you are always so happy, I know that your thoughts include all things beautiful.  (Daddy says that you're probably thinking about breastmilk...)   

We love you sweet girl and cannot wait to see what month 5 holds!