Jade is Four Months Old Today

September 5, 2008: Jade is four months old today! Today we hung out with Grandma Gunn and went shopping for Jade's "birthday". We went to Burlington Coat Factory were they always have great deals on the cutest baby clothes. Of course, everytime I shop there I spend a lot of money and buy lots of baby clothes. It doesn't help that Mom looks through all of the racks and finds the cutest clothes. I always end up having to put at least 10 items back...but then I always buy at least 10 items as well. Jade is getting so big. It seems like everyday she gets bigger. I bought her 3-6 month sized clothes today. She weighs 15.5 lbs and is wearing a size 1 diaper. She still doesn't have very much hair, and I'm resigned to the fact that she probably won't for quite some time. Roanne says that Aaron was a butterball til he was around 2 years old, then he grew a ton of really thick red hair. I'm sure Jade will follow in her father's footsteps. She looks just like him. She can reach out and grab things with her hands. She is always putting things in her mouth and she drools uncontrollably. She goes through at least 2 bibs a day due to sooooo much drool. She also can hold her own bottle and recognizes it instantly. Anytime she sees her bottle, she holds out her hands and tries to grab it. If I don't get it to her fast enough, she starts to scream. Very cute (said sarcastically.) She also is a great rice cereal eater. She eats rice cereal at 0900, 1200 and 2100. She is done with the nursing thing and exclusively has bottles-4oz at a time. We keep her on an eating schedule and it seems to work really well. She has also been sleeping 10-11 hours through the night on a regular basis. She doesn't have any teeth yet but I wonder if that is coming soon because of all the drool. She also can't sit up by herself. I wish she could though. It should would make life a whole lot easier. Jade is very intrigued with everything and everyone around her, so she constantly wants to be sitting up and looking around. Unfortunately, I don't have all day to just hold her. She's close to sitting up by herself but she needs to be propped up by something. But that means she can't be left alone. That's alright. She still is totally adorable.