4 months old!

Emily starts her 4th month in a huge heat wave, which means she hasn't been outside in a week, with not much relief in site! Yuck!

At 4 months Emily is:

• 15 pounds (4 month Doctor visit is next week, so we'll get more stats then)
  
• giggling and making lots of talking noises trying to join in the conversation
• still kicking her legs like crazy, but has now figured out that she only needs to kick one leg to make her favorite seat bounce up and down

• sucking on her fingers whenever she can
• losing more of her shiny brownish/red hair that she was born with, and it looks like the hair that will replace it is coming in blond
  
• grabbing her toys and bringing them all to her mouth
  
• taking longer naps during the day (usually around 1.5 hrs) and therefore only eating 5 times per day, 4 of them being formula (at least for another few weeks until mom completely transitions and then when the frozen breast milk is gone)
• still sleeping in the swaddle, but tends to get her arms out sometimes, so we think we will try and transition out of it in a few weeks

• continues to sleep through the night. If she wakes up usually a diaper change or a pacifier tends to put her back to sleep fairly easily.
• had two successful half days at daycare in preparation for starting full time at Sue's house August 1st. Mom and Dad were more nervous than Emily was...

We were all excited that Emily had more visits from grandparents and great grandparents this month (see photos below). She saw Great Grandpa Paul at the cottage over the 4th of July, Grandma and Grandpa Hicks and Great Grandma Mae came last weekend and Grandpa Lee and Nana Ellen are coming this weekend! Wish Nana Ellen good luck next week while she has Emily all by herself for the week while Mommy and Daddy go back to work full time!