Four Months Old.

The last few photos amuse me because it looks like a progression of a horror movie. The look of sheer terror in Mio’s eyes in the last photo is hilarious — what a drama queen!

(I’ll be taking photos of Mio sitting in my white desk chair and wearing her monthly onesie every month until she’s one year old.)

Previous Photos:
One Month Old • Two Months Old • Three Months Old

The Rundown at Four Months…

Stats: You are well over fifteen pounds now, and while we have yet to go to your four-month checkup, we can already see and feel how much you’ve grown! You’re getting tight for your 3-6 months clothes, so it’s time to start putting them away and getting out the larger sizes. Mommy complains that you need to make your clothes last longer — you have so many adorable outfits, some of which you have only worn once because you are growing out of them so fast! But really, we are just happy that you are so healthy and growing well. 🙂

Things You’re Doing Now: How active you are these days! In the past month, you learned how to roll over, and rolling is your mode of transportation these days! You roll everywhere — on your playmat, on the floor, in our bed, in your crib. We often find you in the morning on your tummy and with your body oriented 180 degrees from where we left you the night before, showing that you are busy rolling and rotating even in your sleep! You even try to “roll” by twisting around in your Bumbo seat and bouncer! Daddy thought it was funny that you could only roll in one direction — to your right — for a while (he called it your “Blue Steel” — will you appreciate Zoolander as much as your parents did?), but you have recently started being able to roll the other direction, to your left. (“Magnum” status!) You can hold your head and shoulders up so well while on your tummy and move your arms and legs around in what looks like an attempt to crawl. You started being able to swipe at the toys above you on your playmat a few weeks ago, but now you can grab and hold onto toys, often bringing them to your mouth so you can suck on them. You are smiling a lot more now, and seem to know that seeing your Mommy’s little camera is a cue to smile. (Although you look perplexed and frown at the big honkin’ lens on the DSLR.) We recently bought you a highchair so that you could be “one of the grownups” and sit with us at the table, because you hate being left away from us while we eat — you like to stare at us as during dinnertime and make chewing motions with your mouth while watching us with our food, but we still feel like we should wait a little longer before we start you on solids. You only take a couple short naps during the daytime these days, and have consistently been sleeping 8-10 hours at night these days, which means peaceful, uninterrupted rest for everyone in the house! 😀