4 month update

Parker turns 4 months old today!  We went for her checkup this morning and everything looks great.  She is 13.9lbs and 24inches long.  She really screamed a lot when they gave her shots this time.  I felt awful.  But now she’s sleeping so it’s ok:) 

She is right on track with everything.  She is talking a lot and starting to grab things around her (a little bit…), she can sometimes roll over, she plays with  her hands a lot, and she even laughed the other day!  She hasn’t laughed again and daddy missed it but she’s trying really hard to do it again for him:)  She’s actually sleeping all the way through the night now (9 hours) so it’s great for me to be able to catch up on my sleep.  I’ve been taking her to a mommy’s playgroup every week and it’s been great for her to meet and “play with” other babies her own age.  She’s already making lots of friends!

A couple weeks ago we were at the mall and stopped in for some info on portraits and ended up having a free photo session.  She did great and took some adorable pictures so we definitely need to go back and have her looking extra cute for a planned session.  We will have to post some of those on here. 

Here are some pictures and videos from the past couple weeks.  It may seem like all we do is put her on the floor under her Baby Einstein thing but I swear we don’t!  She just really likes it and that’s when she gets the most animated and talkative and it makes for the best videos:)

These first pictures are some I took with a message for her Uncle Matt who she STILL hasn’t met yet:

Message for Uncle Matt

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Here are a couple from Easter night, Parker seeing her first fire at our neighbor’s fire pit, and hanging out in her bumbo:

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Here are some random ones of her hands and feet (I love to look at them:) ), then some more of her being cute and Milhouse trying to act like a baby to get some attention:

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Then there are a few of her in her bumbo, turning to watch the Tigers play, and her sleeping :

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OK, there are a lot of videos here and most people will get very bored trying to watch them all.  I know the grandparents will like to see Parker in her normal day-to-day boring life, but for the rest of you, my favorites are the one labeled “Blowing on Parker’s face” (the 6th one) and “Trying to laugh” (the last one).  The rest are just her talking and screaming and fussing and sleeping and smiling and staring:)