Month 4

 

Lily has been making so much progress!  I swear I drop her off with her babysitter in the morning and then pick her up in the evening and she is completely different.  I got used to leaving her and going to work…for awhile.   I had a weeklong break, which we spent in Littleton with the grandparents. Her Great Uncle Harley came out from South Dakota to visit and Lily absolutely loved staring at him!  Going back to school after that week was really hard.  I am struggling to leave Lily in the morning; I would rather just stay with her all day.  All week I look forward to the weekend when I get to spend 2 whole days hanging with my little girl. 

One amazing thing that happened this month was that Lily reached for me.  Someone else was holding her and I walked past and she reached for me!!  Love that she is becoming even more attached to me, especially because I have to leave her so much for work.  She is also becoming a little bashful.  Sometimes when people (especially men) look at her, she will snuggle into me and hide her face.  It is totally adorable!

Lily loves going to the babysitter!  Her babysitter has two teenage children that Lily just loves to talk to and hang out with!  She is well taken care of there and that makes leaving her that much easier.

Big Developments in Lily this month: 

She is, as always, talking more and more, we are going to have a hard time keeping this girl quiet when she is older!  Her sad stories are still continuing, but she has added a multitude of new sounds.  She is also getting a lot louder.  I do believe this is because she spends so much time with her Daddy.

Lily also loves to laugh.  She does, however, need you to keep your attempts fresh.  She does not necessarily laugh at the same thing that made her laugh the day before.  She is too smart and is easily bored by our repetitive attempts!!  Although, it has gotten easier to get her to laugh when she is in the mood.  Mommy and Daddy try to get as many of these giggles on video as we can, because they are so amazing to listen to.  Lily also loves to laugh at her Papa, he can get her to laugh so much easier than the rest of us.

               Lily is wearing size 1 diapers now and is getting close to growing out of them!  She is also growing out of her clothes left and right.  We need to head down to the basement and bring up some of the clothes that we deemed to big for her.  Hopefully, we don’t find a whole bunch of clothes that she has already grown out of.

               It’s started; everything she gets her hands on goes into her mouth.  She is really good at gripping things and picking them up.  She has lifted and held onto things that have surprised Rob and I.  Her strength is amazing.  She picked up a bag of chips that Daddy was eating and she also held onto her toy seahorse with just one hand when I picked her up.  The seahorse weighs almost a pound, pretty impressive for those little muscles, not to mention her iron grip!

               Lily has also been working on spinning herself around in her floor mat jungle.  We put her in facing one way and find that she has spun her little body around to better view a different toy.  She also found the mirror in the jungle and is completely entertained staring at her beautiful little face!