"Where has she been and what has she been up to?" you wonder. Let's recap: the baby has started sleeping in her own room. Sleep patterns have been disrupted: sometimes she goes all the way through the night; other times she'll wake up once or even twice. She has also started teething. That is a topic for another post entirely. I also decided to go decaf to see if it had an effect on Baby "Gigi". Withdrawal was not pretty for either of us. Our backyard raccoons were telling me I looked like hell.
But there's good news, too. Gigi had her four-month well-baby visit, and she is progressing very nicely along her curve. She's still a small baby, but she is a healthy one. She has not yet doubled her birth weight, but she has doubled her lowest weight ever from her hospital days. So she's nearly two feet long and weighed just under ten and a half pounds at her appointment. She is also Mommy's Super Brave Little Girl for getting her immunization shots, four at a pop, poor sweetie.
Her little blond curls are filling out nicely, her eyes are still blue (let's hear it for recessive genes!), and she continues to vocalize with enthusiasm. And right now you could not drag me back to work with whips, chains, wild horses, and cattle prods.