Miss Lily,
What a fun and busy month this has been for you! Your growth and development continues to amaze us, we have such a wonderful time learning new things with you.
Your favorite toy is your hands; you grab anything within reach and promptly put it in your mouth. You are even starting to try to hold your bottle. You're getting better at rolling on your side, but haven't been able to get all the way over yet. You are still chatting up a storm every day, and have learned how to "yell" (or talk very loudly), which you enjoy doing very much.
Our favorite new trick you can do is giggle. Nothing has ever made me happier in this whole world than listening to you laugh, especially because it's in response to something silly I'm doing. Finally, someone who gets my jokes! It has been incredibly difficult to get this amazing event on film, however, because as soon as you see the camera you get very distracted. This is the best video we have so far, hopefully there will be more to come!
Here you are talking to your toys, you like to tell them stories.
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| Watching Elmo with Daddy. As you can see, you are quite mesmerized by electronic appliances. Anything to make you happy!! |
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| Auntie Em and Uncle Kyle feeding you. How cute! |
You had fun making Christmas cookies with your Grandmas, and I know they had fun, too!
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| Even Great Grandma got in on the cookie fun. You cared more about her light up necklace than you did about the cookies, though. |
Christmas time at Grandma Sharon's was a blast! She spoiled you with lots of gifts and you also enjoyed cuddling with everyone, including Uncle John, Sebastian and Xander.
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| Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa Schroeder's was a success. Here you are with Mommy playing on your new piano. You can never start learning these things too early! |
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| Opening presents at Mamaw's. You were excited for your new CD of silly songs from Uncle Chiz. |
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| Family Christmas photo |
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| Four generation photo, and yes this was the best one in the bunch. You can't imagine how difficult it was to get us all to cooperate for this. |
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| Overall, Christmas was a success. It took us about a week to recover, but you managed to score some great loot and looked super cute while doing it! |
You are such a beautiful growing girl and we are so proud of you.
Things we are working on this month: getting you to sleep without rocking you and getting you to stay asleep at night.
Four month stats:
15 lbs 8 oz
90th percentile
26 3/4 inches
Over 95th percentile.
