Lainey: 4 Months

Do you remember how hard it is to be 3-4 months old? Well Lainey would like to remind you!

This is the summary of Lainey's life from 3-4 months old. First up, her stats!!!

Height: 24.5" (57%)
Weight: 15lbs (77%)
Head: 16" (39%)

At 4 Months Lainey is:

• In 0-3 month clothes
• In Size 2 diapers
• On the HEAVENLY 4 hour schedule! Eating 5-6oz at 7, 11, 3, 7 (started this right at 16 weeks)
• Sleeping from 8:45-11, 1-3 and 5-6:30 then in bed at 7:30 or so
• On 3.5mL of Prilosec twice a day for reflux
• Down to monthly appointments with the chiropractor
• Smiling, Laughing and Cooing. All quietly :-) She is the quietest baby!!!! Its just precious!
• Right after she turned 3 months old we had a few HUGE changes!... 
• Up to size 2 nipples on the mam bottle
• Started mixing her goat milk formula with Baby's Only Organic formula (started at a 5/1 ratio and every 3 or so days we would increase the mix...) By the middle of the month we were on 100%  baby's only organic which is honestly just SO much easier. The nightly making of formula was wearing on Jeff and I and while we would have done it every day for the entire first year if we needed to, I'll admit that I'm grateful that we didnt :-)
• We dropped the swaddle!!! I was pretty sure it was time (and I always try to drop it by around 14 weeks) because she was waking MOTN trying to get to her hands. I had suspected that she was going to be a thumb sucker and sure enough, as sure as we dropped the swaddle, she found her thumb! When we dropped it we started with night time first and she woke early a couple of mornings and we let her CIO (she fussed but never really cried till desired wake time... off and on for maybe 20 min or so). Not bad at all! I was amazed at how well she did! 
• Started batting at toys around 15 weeks. She loves her floor mat/gym!

I always dread transitions and this month was FULL of them! And I've been amazed and so grateful for how smoothly she handled all of the transitions! She really is such a little "Angel Baby!"

OH! And she has definitely found her tongue! She loves sticking it out and I think its adorable!

Some of Lainey's favorite things are to play patty cake, sing and do the wheels on the bus, read a book or two... she loves tummy time although she tends to look around a while and then just lay and suck her thumb a minute or two. HA!
And my absolute FAVORITE thing that Lainey does right now is that she makes this long sound when she yawns... its just like what my Mommie used to do :-)

Gah, we are just soaking up this little girl! I have enjoyed watching all 3 of our kids grow but I can tell that I am savoring Lainey's milestones a little more than I did with Rhyan and Mack becaues I know she's our last baby. And while I look forward to the future where we'll be able to go places and do things and not be bound by a baby's schedule, I really am loving having her! Its so much easier (for me!) with Lainey than it was with mack... I think that because Rhyan and Mack were only 2 years apart it was just harder, period. Rhyan was awesome and a super easy toddler but 2 that are so dependent on you at the same time is just hard! But this go round, mack and rhyan are both fairly independent! So I feel like we are all enjoying having Lainey as a part of the family and she definitely completes us :-)

Lainey: 3 Months

Oh my! This is a summary of Lainey from month 2-3 and wow, we had some changes!

Lainey's 3 month stats (at home guesses):

Height: 23"
Weight: 12.5 lbs

At 3 months Lainey is:

• In 0-3 month clothes (finally!)
• In size 1 diapers (still)
• Eating 5-6oz at 7, 10:30, 2, 5, 8 (combo 3-3.5 hour schedule... this happened around 12 weeks)
• We tackled CIO full on this month at around the 9-10 week mark... it was a rough couple of days but after a weekend (friday and saturday mostly) of a good bit of crying at naps, she started going down for naps great and making it till the next waketime/bottle!
• We also went ahead and started CIO at night around 9 weeks. This was super hard but we KNEW she wasnt needing to eat because she would literally see my face and stop crying and start smiling. Booger! So after we had naps going well, we set up a box fan in the hallway and supported each other as we had to listen to some crying for about 2 nights. It broke my heart. But after 3 nights there has been NO MORE middle of the night wakings and we are all sleeping GREAT! :-)
• On 3mL of prilosec twice a day for reflux
• Still seeing the chiropractor and maintaining adjustments well!
• Smiling Tons and...
• LAUGHING!!! Her first laugh was on Nov 8th at just shy of 3 months old! It was the sweetest thing! Lainey is a very quiet baby and doesnt really "jabber" much and so waiting SO long for her first laugh was killing me! And literally it was the quietest little laugh! It cracked me up!
• COOING! Lainey started cooing at 10 weeks and it is so so precious! And quiet :-) I remember with Rhyan and Mack that when they started cooing we literally couldnt hear ppl if we were talking on the phone because they were both SO loud! But Lainey is such an observer!
• ROLLING OVER! Lainey Rolled over for the first time on her 10 week bday! (There were lots of firsts in her 10th week... she had just come out of a wonder week leap in development and you can always tell when its over because they start showing their newly acquired skills!)
• Still taking the homemade goat milk formula
• Still on a size 1 nipple and mam bottle
• Still swaddled for naps and nighttime using the miracle blanket

"who is this monkey in my chair?!"

EEK! I'm THREE months old!!!

Rhyan and Mack have adjusted SO well and so easily to having Lainey as a part of our family and we are tremendously blessed to be a family of 5 :-)

Lainey: 2 Month

 

Lainey's 2 month checkup was on October 15. Just one day after she turned 2 months old!

Lainey's 2 month Stats:

Height- 22" (38%)
Weight- 11 lbs (57%)
Head- 16" (?%)

At 2 Months, Lainey is:

• STILL in newborn clothes! But we are about to move on up in the next few days... with the exception of her pj's which she moved up the size this week because of the length!
• In size 1 diapers in the day, size 2 at night only
• Eating 4-5oz at 7, 10, 1, 4, 7
• Doing pretty well with self soothing. When we put her down we offer paci once and she may or may not cry a few minutes before falling asleep
• Waking once MOTN around 3am and most days makes it from that feeding till 7am
• On 3mL of prilosec twice a day for reflux
• Seeing the chiropractor once a week to be sure she's still in alignment
• Smiling all. the. time!
•  Eating the homemade formula that I make for her daily (recipe found here) although we do NOT use raw milk (i have mixed emotions about this... i'll write a separate post about this.
• using size 1 nipple with the mam bottle
• started going to Tracy's house when I returned to work! *sigh*. She's doing great there!
• still swaddled using the miracle blanket at every nap and night time

 This cracks me up! The kids wanted to "share" some of their favorite friends with Lainey... LOL!

 Mack and Rhyan are still SO in love with their little sister! They both look after her so well and always want to help out with anything she needs! Our little family is complete and we couldnt be happier!

Lainey, so far, is a really quiet baby. She cries when she's hungry or hurting. She can, but does not often, coo. Mostly, she's just really observant and quiet and we think that is just precious! We are really enjoying getting to know her little personality!

When we do see this little face there is usually a little bit of fussing to go along with it, but nothing like what you'd anticipate!

Lainey seems to continue to really enjoy tummy time and is pretty strong!

One of my sweet friends, Melissa, had her 3rd baby just a week or so after Lainey. I love that all 3 of our kids are fairly close in age and all love each other. We have decided that these two will be betrothed :-)

We enjoyed a sweet visit from Melissa and Eli one beautiful afternoon and I just had to get some comparison pics! These crack me up!!

 

And of course right after they left I got theses sweet pics of her! LOL!

Other pics from this month:

This is Daddy's idea of the afternoon naptime for Lainey. I would laugh but at this point I was working pretty hard on being really consistent about sleep training so I took a pic knowing in time I'd have more perspective and know this was a sweet moment. But at the time I was like "what the heck?!" HA!

Rhyan has declared that she is SO glad she gets to be Lainey's mommy and that she wants to have a hundred babies! She IS a big helper for sure!

Some other cute pics of our girl towards the end of the month. Look how full her cheeks were getting!

We also went to the ZOO this month! We were coming out of Lainey's 9th week and she wasnt napping well anyways so I figured we may as well just go enjoy the day! A friend of mine had the gwinnett county Zoo Pass DVD (where you can watch the video and upon return of the dvd you get 4 free zoo passes!). Jeff was not thrilled to be going (he's never thrilled about anything in Atlanta) but it really was a beautiful day! I used the ergo  and carried her around and she did pretty well with eating when she should eat and sleeping when she should sleep! Here, we were riding the train!

And this is summary of Lainey's life from 1-2months old!