4-ish months

So, it's been a while since our last post. After a relatively easy couple of months, Charlotte's sleeping got somewhat more complicated. Improving that took up a lot (all?) of our time, leaving less time for blogging. We're happy to report that she is now sleeping very well at night, going down between 6:30 and 7:00 and sleeping for about 12 hours (with 1 or 2 wakings for feedings). Her daytime napping is still a challenge. She so loves this world that she doesn't want to miss a thing, and therefore prefers 30-minute naps to the usual 1-2 hour siestas. We're hoping Aunt Marty can help her with this when she comes to nanny for us in just over a week! I (Summer) will be going back to work around the same time. I would much rather stick around the house to enjoy Charlotte's increasingly social personality, but the return to work is inevitable. I'll only be in the office Monday-Wednesday, so I'll still have plenty of time to enjoy long walks outside with Charlotte as the weather in Minnesota gets nicer.

So what has Charlotte been doing since our last post? Well, she is now able to put herself out of tummy time misery by rolling over to her back. She is less content with laying down and playing with things overhead and much prefers to play while sitting or standing with our help. We've managed to elicit a few giggles out of her. Her stomach has matured, producing fewer "waterfall" spit-ups that we used to dread. When we took her in for her 4-month check-up a couple of weeks ago she was nearing 15 lbs. and her head was slightly less giant (only 95th percentile).

We have a couple of exciting trips coming up -- New York City in a couple weeks and Chicago at the end of May. Hopefully Charlotte will enjoy these trips, encouraging us to make more of them.