4 months... already!!

Yeesh. You hear other moms saying all the time that their babies grow up way too fast, and it is so true. You just can't understnad it until you experience the blink of an eye that turns your newborn into a toddler (please don't let the next 17 years go by this fast!!), but what's even crazier, as impossible as it would seem, is how much faster it goes with the second baby! Aurelle, how on earth can you be 4 months old already?? It's not that I am in denial or anything, it is just simply not possible.

•At her 4 month check up, Aurelle weighed just over 13 pounds as is in the 44th percentile and was 24 1/2 inches tall... still our dainty and LONG little girl!

•She still does not sleep through the night. For a while she would sleep 6-7 hours straight, and wake up once early morning and again right before I got up for the day, but due to recent teething and now a cold (she's so congested...poor baby) she is back to waking up every 2-3 hours, mostly because she is just so uncomfortable, the poor little thing. :(

•Aurelle is definitely a major mommy's girl, and anyone who has witnessed someone other than me attempting to hold her knows exactly to what extent I am talking about here! But these last few days we have had a breakthrough! She will now let not only Kyle, but also my mom hold her for extended periods of time (and even give them a little smile, too), so now I can cook dinner, or actually sit and play with Minnette, which I don't get to do as much as I used to.

•She is, as the doctor said, "growing like a weed" and chunking up and becoming oh, so irresistably pinchable! Breastfeeding is going flawlessly this time around, which is a HUGE accomplishment for me since with Minnette, due to complications, nursing didn't last past 6 weeks... and so far with Aurelle: 4 months down and not a single drop of formula!

•She drools like crazy, and will soaks through the front of her onesie in minutes.

•She LOVES to chew and suck on her thumb and fingers, and sometimes manages to get her entire fist in her mouth!

•Her eyes are still BLUE, and were thinking they might be keepers!

•She is such a smiler, has the funniest laugh and coos all the time

•She loves absolutely everything about her big sister... she watches everything Minnette does with deep interest, gives her smiles and either cries or starts saying "Ooh!" in a concerned way whenever Minnette cries... they are going to be such best buds! Just hang on a few more months, Minnette!

Aurelle is just getting cuter and more fun every single day, and we just love her so much!