Emory - 4 Months!

Whew!  Time is FLYING by and our precious Emory is already 4 months old!  I cannot say enough what a SWEET and HAPPY baby she is.  Wow...we are so blessed!  Some special things right now...

• We have her 4-month check-up next week so we will find out her height and weight then.  So many people have commented on how long she is...it will be interesting to find out if she is longer than Brynn was or not.  We also think maybe she doesn't weigh as much as Brynn did at this age.  Who knows...we will find out next week.  I think it will be interesting to compare the two.
• When she was around 15 weeks and we started rice cereal her schedule changed a bit.  Now we are waking her at 7:30 and she nurses and has rice cereal.  Then she naps from about 9:30 to 11.  We wake her at 11 and she nurses.  Naps from about 1-2:30 or 3.  Then nurses.  Catnaps around 4:30 or 5.   Nurses at 6 (then rice cereal).  We put her down around 8:15 or 8:30.  If she stays asleep then I get her up at 9:30 to nurse and then we put her down for the night.  If she catnaps and is awake by 9ish, then we just hold her and give her the paci a bit before I nurse.  That is such a sweet and special time!
• She is still exclusively on breast-milk!  YAY!  I've definitely made more milk this time around.
• We started swaddling her with one-arm out because she has been rolling over!  
• She went through a phase where she was only napping for like 45 minutes.  YUCK!  She would be super content and wasn't hungry once we got her up, but she just couldn't sleep past that 45 minute transition.  Luckily, her night sleep hasn't been affected.  It lasted for about a week.
• She LOVES to suck on her fingers and fist.
• She LOVES to roll onto her side.
• She had her first ear infection this month after a nasty cold.  She was on anti-biotics for 10 days and that cleared it up.  
• She is SO content and the nursery people tell us all the time what a great baby she is.  That is fun to hear!  They were like "wow, even really loud noises don't bother her at all."  HA!  We were like "well...have you seen her sister?"  I guess she is used to her loud sister! 
• She is the most smiley little thing EVER!  And she has been laughing a LOT!  She is ticklish under her neck and you can always get her to do that belly laugh if you tickle her there. 
• I know it's just a second child thing but poor Emory sometimes just has to lay there while I'm helping Brynn do something, etc.  She is so content to just lay and look around.  Thank you Emory!
• Brynn gets her to smile a lot...and when Emory laughs back at Brynn I could just MELT!
• This month there were rough patches with her cold and her weird nap thing, but overall I just can't say enough how totally blessed we are with such a sweet little baby.  We love her SO VERY MUCH!

Some outtakes from the picture session...HA!

HILARIOUS!

And for comparison sake...here is Emory at 4 months and then Brynn.  Ryan thinks they look similar but I think they look quite a bit different.  I always love hearing what other people think about their resemblance.  Do you guys see it or think they look different?

Emory at 4 months...

Brynn at 4 months..

We cannot thank God ENOUGH for the blessing our two girls are to us!