4 month doctor's appointment

I'm not sure why, but it seems like I've been too busy lately to take many pictures. So, sorry this is kind of a boring post - no pictures for you today. However, I thought I'd post an update since Celena had her 4 month doctor's appointment last week. Here are her stats:

Height: 25 1/2 inches (85th percentile)
Weight: 14 lbs (60th percentile)
Head: 16 1/2 cm (80th percentile)

She is really changing these days. She now rolls over from both her back to her tummy and from her tummy to her back. She has also become much more content just sitting on my lap - it's nice not to stand up while I hold her all the time!!! It's fun to watch her personality develop, and interesting to see how different she and Cass are. Cass was a very intense baby (and still has an intense personality, but don't all 2 year olds???) - he was colicky, always wanted me to stand and hold him, and was terrified of baths. Celena seems to be very laid back, will lay on the floor or sit on my lap contently, and LOVES to take a bath. They really couldn't be much more opposite - it will sure make it fun to watch them grow up if they continue to be this different!!!

4 month growth spurt???

This is the first thing I saw when I woke up this morning - Celena staring at me with a big smile on her face. That is because she got to sleep with her mama last night. I don't let her do this very often, only when I get so exhausted that I can't get up with her anymore. Her sleep schedule continues to be very inconsistent. She slept through the night a few nights ago, then the following night only woke up once, but then the last couple nights she has woken up almost every hour to eat. On those nights I end up just putting her in bed with me after the first couple wakings so I can get some sleep! I'm not sure why she is doing this, but I have heard babies can go through a growth spurt at 4 months and want to eat all the time, so hopefully that is what this is and it will soon pass!

Here is a sign of what also may be causing the night wakings - maybe she is teething??? It seems early, but she is drooling a lot and chewing on her hands all the time. If I remember right, Cass did this for quite a while before a tooth appeared, so I don't expect to see any pearly whites popping through very soon.

In the doghouse

Here's where I found Cass with some of his toys yesterday - in our dogs' cage. He's getting too tall to stand up in there, but he doesn't seem to mind.

New hat

Check out Celena's new hat! I love, love, love the little baby flapper hats! I have become obsessed with etsy - as you may know, it's a website with all handmade things where you can find great stuff, especially for babies. In case any of you want one of these hats for your daughters or just for baby gifts, I got this one from ZoeLynnDesigns - the website is http://www.zjohnson.etsy.com/.

Poor little Celena is fighting the cold that we have all been passing around the house. I took her to the doctor yesterday just to make sure her ears and lungs were okay, and they were fine. She's just really congested and has a bad cough. Last night she woke up around 2 am coughing, and I was able to get her back to sleep around 4:00 in her swing downstairs and I slept on the couch beside the swing. She seems to be a little better today, so hopefully she is on the mend.

Halloween

Chris carved a couple pumpkins on Halloween, then went through what appeared to be a tedious process of separating the seeds from the pumpkin so that we could toast them. Cass was a lot of "help" in this process (you can see from the picture that Chris was trying his best to make sure Cass didn't mess up his piles).

Here's our little cheeseburger all dressed up for Halloween! He had fun. The day after Halloween he put his costume back on and wanted to go outside to trick or treat again. I guess he doesn't realize that it is not normal to dress like a cheeseburger and ask your neighbors for candy on any ordinary day :)

Celena was a bunny. This picture is funny - the cheeseburger had a little meltdown while trick-or-treating. I can't remember what it was about, but you can see in the background that he was being dramatic and had dropped to the ground to throw a typical 2 year old tantrum.

The bunny didn't make it very long!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!

Cookies

Cass's preschool had a cookie decorating party for the kids and parents on Wednesday, and we had to miss it because Cass was sick. So, I decided that Cass and I would make cookies together yesterday. I stood him up on the chair so he could help flatten the dough, put the cookies on the cookie sheet, decorate them, and even do the dishes. You can imagine how this went - when he put the cookies on the cookie sheet he wanted to bang the cookie sheet on the counter, then when we did dishes he managed to take a drink of the dish water and stick the dish cloth in his mouth (YUCK!!), and then when decorating the cookies he kept dropping the spatula. We had fun though. However, when it came time to decorate the last few cookies that I told him he could eat, he didn't want to do it - he wanted NO frosting on them. Weird kid, huh? I guess it goes along with how he doesn't like fried food. I have a health nut on my hands. :)