Four Month Old Quinn

Here is our fourth month old!!

How cute, happy, and squeezable is she?!  Quinn continues to be a good baby and is growing SO fast, we just love her.  She is full of laughs, giggles, coos, and loves to be a part of the action.  She very interested in her toys these days and has figured out how to hold toys for a period of time and get them into her mouth.  She is also thoroughly entertained by just sitting and watching whatever Nolan is doing.  She may be a bit of a daredevil as she loves to swing fast on the swing, go fast on the boat, and generally have a constant breeze in her face :)  Her little personality is really coming out and it's great to watch.

In other news this month...no more middle of the night feedings!!  Quinn decided to quick that habit on our first night of vacation a couple of weeks ago and never looked back.  So these days she drinks four bottles a day (averaging anywhere from 7-8 ounces).  She usually eats these bottles around 8:00/12:00/4:00/and 7:30-8:00 for bedtime.  She is still taking Zantac for her reflux but we are hopeful that she will grow out of it soon since our pediatrician said most babies do somewhere between 4-6 months.  

Quinn is still a good napper as well.  She takes two naps a day now.  Her morning nap is usually about an hour long between 10:30-11:30 and then she takes a 2-3 hour nap from 1:30 up to 4:30 (some days), but most days she is up by 4:00.  She still needs to doze off for about 15 minutes around dinner time so she cat naps in the stroller or on the couch just to get her to bedtime.  

At her four month appointment this week she had some pretty impressive stats:

Weight:  16 pounds (83rd percentile)

Length:  25.75 inches (94th percentile)

She had to get two shots and an oral medication and she did great while big brother, Nolan, gave her a kiss and a hug in order to earn his sucker on the way out of the office ;)

Quinn also started eating rice cereal this week.  She has had a few bowls of it after her 4:00 bottle and could take or it or leave it at this point.  Most of it is still being pushed out of her mouth but I can see that she is slowly starting to figure out how to open her mouth and keep it in there in order to eat it.

Here is a picture from her first rice cereal experience:

That isn't the most flattering picture (sorry Quinn).  Here are a couple other cute pictures of our four month old...

Happy four months!!