Laynie is 4 months!

Laynie Magdalena is 4 months old!!

Laynie turned 4 months on Monday, November 25. Her 4 month check up was the next day (today). She weighs 12 pounds, 11 ounces and measures 24 inches long. Her head circumference is 42 centimeters! She is in the 25th percentile for weight, 39th for height and 75th for head size! haha!! I still think it's so funny that she is in the 75th percentile for her head. It really doesn't seem that big to me! She's got the cutest chubby cheeks that make her look much chubbier than she really is. Rex was typically in the 25th-ish percentile for weight so I'm still thinking she's going to be on the small size like him. She got 4 shots today and was definitely more fussy than usual. My poor baby!

Laynie is wearing 3 month clothes and size 1 diapers. We found another big box in the closet so that got us through even longer. I know now, we're on our last box of size 1's so we'll switch to size 2 when we run out of the 1's. Over the last month, my milk supply has slowed down dramatically so she is mostly formula fed now. When I went back to work, I had a feeling I would do good with pumping until that extra busy week of things going on hit. And sure enough...it hit! I had 4 ARD meetings in a week so I was very busy getting those prepared and started pumping in the afternoon right after school instead of around 11 like I had been. Once that happened, my production slowed big time and I ran out of the supply that I had in the freezer. So for about the last 2 weeks, she gets formula all day and I went ahead and stopped pumping. I nurse her either when I get home from work or at night to go to sleep and when she wakes up for her feeding in the middle of the night. It's been a very bittersweet thing for me because I really wanted to at least make it to 6 months so I didn't meet my goal. It's also been nice, though, not to stress about pumping at work. I'm enjoying continuing to nurse in the evenings so we still get to have that bond and at least she is still getting some breast milk. I'd like to continue doing at least that through 6 months, or at least through Christmas! Time will tell...

This month I discovered for sure that Laynie is sensitive to milk. I drank a good size milk shake and it made her very gassy and fussy. I felt so bad! She is drinking the Gentlease formula and that seems to fit her very well.

Starting this month, we will start introducing solids. We tried rice cereal for the 1st time today. She wasn't too crazy about it! We'll keep trying, of course :)

She is still sort of random with naps during the day. She still takes her little catnap around 7 every night and is ready for bed between 8:30 and 9. She wakes at night around 3:40 AM and sometimes more often but typically she only wakes once.

At 3 1/2 months, Laynie rolled over for the first time!! She didn't do it again, though, until this last Sunday (the day before she turned 4 months). She gets so close all the time but doesn't quite make it over. I'm sure over the next month she will be rolling all over the place

We went on our first road trip this month! On November 9, my cousin Adrian got married to his beautiful wife Lindsey in Wimberley, Texas, about 3 hours away.  We took the kids with us but Ashley went to her moms that weekend as well so that they could keep the kids while we went to the wedding. Laynie did pretty well on the road. She fussed here and there but over all it wasn't bad. We are planning on going to the deer lease the first weekend in December which will be a longer drive so I'm anxious to see how she does then.

Right after she turned 3 months, we celebrated Laynie's first halloween! My niece Valerie bought her first costume and she was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. She looked sooooo cute!! It was the cutest little onesie costume! We went trick or treating in Cody and Ashley's neighborhood. Laynie was asleep by the time we got around the block!

Rex has continued to be a wonderful big brother to his little sister! Aside from waking her up from time to time, he is so so loving with her! He mimics the way I talk to her in his little high pitched voice and Laynie just smiles away at him! I'm so excited to watch them bond more and more as she grows older.

This next month will be so exciting with all of the holidays coming up and a mountain of birthdays! I'm so excited to celebrate her first Christmas! Rex is at such a fun age for Christmas so it's even more exciting.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!