4 months old

marley had her 4-month-old appointment at her doctor's today. it was in the morning, so she was all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when we got there. very pleasant for the height and weight and the visit with the nurse. then they came in with the shots. and she got upset. i mean PISSED. she did not like having her legs and arms held. and the actual stick of the shot didn't do much to improve her mood. the third shot they did burned more than the others and she managed to sqeeze out a few tears. but she was fine when i was able to pick her up and cuddle her some. of course, the binky probably did more to comfort her than her mama. i love to watch her suck on that green soothie when she's upset. she's so serious about it, and it just moves in and out so fast.

speaking of being cute and crying, i think she makes the funniest face when she cries. now, she doesn't do it often so when she does have a crying fit i kinda have to laugh. i'll try to get a good picture of her one day for the blog.

marley gets to "officially" eat food by spoon now. yeah! we're to have cereal 3-4 times a day, eat it at my schedule . . . . yeah right. i don't think i've had breakfast, or 3 regular meals, since i was pregnant and told to gain weight! and then when she has the feeding part down, i can go ahead and start stage 1 foods. (i could start now b/c she took to the spoon beautifully on the first try, she anticipates the next bite, she closes her mouth around the spoon and hardly spits any out during the swallow process.) so i think this saturday we'll hit giant eagle and buy us some goodies and start foods then. i'm really excited for this step, but not looking forward to having to get up even earlier to now fit in some cereal.

one negative side effect of her appointment was that this afternoon she was miserable. i think the shots kicked in. she didn't get a fever, but she really just wanted to be held by her mom. and marley is not like that usually. so we cuddled, and had some more milk. but then she finally fell asleep and took a long long nap. the girl who never naps during the day slept for like 2 hours. i left her in her swing in the living room, but didn't try to be quiet or anything. and still she slept. i finally woke her up, gave her a bath and some cereal. she played for about 30 minutes and then started fussing. she drank a whole bottle, during which she usually gets very sleepy and then goes straight to bed. not tonight. with that power nap behind her she was raring to go! she laid under her play gym talking a mile a minute for a good hour. she's finally now in bed and all sounds quiet up there.

oh - she weighed 15lbs 7oz, measured 25". something like 81st percentile for weight and 75th percentile for height.

i didn't get a picture today. maybe tomorrow