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| So this little girl is growing like crazy. We had her 4 month check-up the other day and she has grown close to 4 inches in 4 months. No wonder I eat so much and she sleeps so much! So here are the stats for all of my number friends- and I know you are out there.....Height 25.3 inches (85th percentile), Weight 14 pounds 15 oz (50th percentile), head circumference 41.9 cm (85th percentile). So she is officially bigger than Chevy. |
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| Our transition back to the working out the home world has been, I guess there is no other word than, overwhelming. Colin loved his three weeks of paternity leave. Mastering Rowan's every need. He did convince her to LOVE his guitar playing. He is back at work and is appreciating not having a 2 year old and a then 3 month old dictate his schedule. Rowan started daycare now 2 weeks ago and she has left Sue, the sweetest 69 year old women, spinning. Rowan cries and cries if Sue puts her down. My little girl who from the day we brought her home from the hospital has slept in her bed independently - no rocking to sleep, no breastfeeding to sleep, when she was tired at night and eventually during the day I would lie her down and she would sleep. Not the case for Sue......Rowan will cry and cry and cry if Sue tries to set her down. So Sue or someone else holds her so she can sleep. So we have come home to a baby that has only half slept in someone's arms for a total of 40 minutes for the day. This poor girl needs at least 3 hours/day but typically she needs 4. She has been so tired that she won't even breast feed before she goes to bed because it is to tiring and she is too overwhelmed. So I have been packing up her bedding and mobile and bringing it to Sue's everyday. It worked the first day; she slept for 2 hours in the crib. Now she is onto us. If Sue even walks down the hall-way Rowan starts crying. I keep saying once she realizes she is safe and ok then she will do better. Well now we are at the end of two weeks and not a whole lot has changed. It makes it so hard for me to go to work. I will say it is the sweetest thing when I come home or Colin picks her up, she gives a huge smile from across the room, grabs our neck and snuggles her face right in the crock of our neck, all the while squealing. One of the sweeter moments of the day. |
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| At 4 months she is rolling occasionally from her stomach to her back. She loves to reach and grabs things and bring them to her mouth, she is talking a whole lot less than Lily did but she is still a talker. She loves to watch Lillian WHEREVER she goes. Colin and Lily play soccer in the basement; Colin holding Rowan and Lillian switching between the goalie and the kicker. Rowan just squeals in delight no matter how tired she is. |
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| It is so hard to find time. Time to be, time to work, time to play, time to be alone. Right now it feels like we are moving from work, to dinner, to dishes, to laundry, to walk the dog, to bed time, to more work, to bed and then start again. I know we will look back on these days as some of the best days of our lives. The funny things Lillian says, the way Rowan squeals and is learning to make noises, the way Lillian runs up to us and says "look what I did" and typically it really is amazing. I know we will look back craving this love, this craziness and this time. So for now we are trying to take it all in and draw our boundaries to protect ourselves so that we can truly enjoy and revel in this. |
