4

On the fourth, Brynnley turned 4 months. She is the absolute best (although I should say that I always think my babies are great, I love babies)! She's so happy, so chunky, so cuddly.

She weighs 15 lbs 8 oz

Length 26 1/4 inches (taller than both her brothers at this age)

Doesn't roll over

Doesn't like to be on her belly

Loves me the most (she should, right?!)

I love that she loves me most

Is happy as can be!

Discovered her hands

Jumps in the Johnny jumper

Reaches for toys and can hold them for a little bit

Laughs

squeals

when I'm nursing her she watches me from the corner of her eyes I think just to make sure I won't leave. And then smiles every few minutes.

Still loves her pacifier

Pinches....it hurts

Is quite the drooler. Hardly ever spits up, but drools all the time.

Still loves sheets. I've bought different blankets of different textures but she loves my sheets. So I finally just took off a pillow case and we carry that around. Doesn't she know she's my only girl and needs to have a cute blanket?

Sleeps for about 7 hours straight at night

Isn't as scheduled as my boys were because we have to be out and about in order to keep the boys entertained.

Still sleeps in bed with me

When its time for a nap or bedtime she likes to be rocked for a little bit and then put down with her pillow case and pacifier and left alone to fall asleep on her own.

New places: the beach, Idaho, Utah, airplane ride

First temple visit: Idaho falls

Apparently my perfect baby has a few flaws......2 to be exact.

One my friend Megan discovered while holding her. She told me her rib felt funny. I blew her off at the moment, but if you know me you know I don't blow off medical things EVER. So as soon as I got home I started a full head to toe assessment on my little one, counted and felt every rib and intercostal space. Sure enough my hair stylist friend was right! So I had the doctor check Brynnley out. He said that we will just keep an eye on it and if it gets too abnormal than we will xray it. But I had my brother check her out and he said she probably fractured it during birth and that is how it healed. Who knows?!

The second little imperfect is that she has labial adhesions. Since I know there are a few guys who read my blog I will leave it at that and let you just google it if you want to know what they are. But I should just clarify that hers are congenital not due to me leaving her in a wet diaper all day.

Even with these two little flaws she is simply perfect to me!

Odd story. I took her to her pediatrician. We are new to Kaiser so it was only her second appointment and our first time meeting the docs regular nurse. So when the nurse saw Brynnley she was commenting about how cute she was and how much she loved the flower on her hair. Typical comment for any baby is what I thought. Then she started talking about how she was having a hard time getting pregnant and how her mom really wanted a grandchild. Everytime I took off the headband she would put it back on. She wanted to measure the head circumference with it on, weigh her with it on, have the doc assess her with it on. I was thinking, enough of this darn flower! Then she said she was going to take a picture of Brynnley on her phone and send it to her mom. um ok. So she did. And then I started wondering if this nurse who wanted a baby so bad and had my chart with my address was going to steal my baby. Odd right? I may have to switch docs.

The boys still love her. They still get in her face way to much, they tug on her arms and legs to get her attention, but other than that they are super good with her. They like to share there comfort blankets with her which makes me cringe because they are so raggedy.

She found her hands. Cracks me up, because she punches her hand straight up in the air and stares at it. Sometimes she sees it while she's eating and has to stop eating just to check out her hand. So precious.