Lily turns 4 months!

Well, I can't believe it, but Lily is now 4 months old!  Since she has been sick, we haven't been to the doctor for her 4 month wellness visit, but I know from our visit a few weeks ago AND from weighing her on the baby scale at home, that she weighs over 17 pounds and is over 26 inches long!  She's a big girl.  According to the online charts, that puts her around the 95th percentile for weight/length. 

At 4 months, Lily is really starting to show her personality!  Some of the things she is doing are:

• *Drumroll*  At 4 months, Lily graduated to her 9-month size clothing!
• Laughing!  She loves to laugh.  I really need to get a video of this and post it - it is the most precious thing ever!
• She smiles a lot!  She loves to be talked to and showered with attention.  She can go from crying to laughing within a few seconds if you just stop and talk to her.  (It's pathetic, really.)
• Lily is my first baby that refuses to take a pacifier and so she has trouble pacifying herself.  She is really hard to get to sleep in the evenings - she fights it with everything she has!!!!!
• She is showing signs of teething - slobbering all over the place and chewing on her hands!  Her pediatrician said we should see teeth within a few weeks!
• She is rolling from side to side, but she isn't rolling over just yet.  Of course, she isn't on a flat surface that much because she likes to be held a lot! 
• She is still on a 3.5 to 4 hour feeding schedule during the day - taking bottles at 8:30am, 12:00pm, 3:30pm, and 7:30pm.
• I can't say that she takes regular naps because we are on the road so much dropping off and picking up boys...and running errands and going to weekly appointments.  So she cat-naps a lot!!!!!  She likes to sleep in the car and in the car seat.
• She is still a great night sleeper.  Sleeping from around 10pm - 8:30am.  On the weekends, when we don't have to get up and get going, she will often sleep until 10:00am.  Which....throws us off schedule a bit, but we are willing to take it just to get more rest.  (We need to get her on an 8pm-8am schedule.....)
• She is a happy girl in the mornings!  She wakes up happy and will smile and laugh at everything!
• She often wakes up around 7am and plays for 30-60 minutes and then puts herself back to sleep.
• She is still sleeping in our bedroom.  Since she's been sick (again), she's been in her carseat - on top of the changing table.
• She thinks both Timothy and Benjamin are funny.  If they talk to her, she cackles with delight!  It's so precious.
• We tried cereal for the first time, and she liked it.  Our biggest problem is finding time to fit her feedings into the schedule.  Once they start eating.....it takes a lot more time to feed!  Both of the boys were in daycare by this time and Creme de la Creme was doing all of the morning/lunch feedings!  :-)

Here are few pictures taken of Lily at 4 months old!