28 Week Update

• At her 4.5 month checkup, Miss Lucy weighed a whopping 16 lbs.
• She is still in her 3-6 month clothes
• She has eaten peas, peaches, bananas, green beans, sweet potato, carrots, rice cereal, apple--she really likes sweet potatoes and apple sauce mixed with rice cereal.
• She is still waking up 1 or 2 times during the night to eat (she will drink 6 to 8 oz of formula each time!)
• She loves to jump in her jumperoo
• She loves her big brother and laughs and laughs at him
• She is almost turning over from back to front, she gets to her side and stops
• She constantly kicks her feet
• She blows raspberries incessently
• I feel a tooth coming through on her bottom left
• She LOVES fuzzy blankets--that's how she self-soothes and falls asleep; the blanket has to be touching her cheek
• She loves watching TV, even though she is not supposed to
• She loves to be held by her Lala and Backaw
• She can hold her own bottle at times
• She loves to snuggle
• She drools a lot, but is not a big spitter-upper
• She LOVES her mobile; it has to be on before she will fall asleep
• She loves when I sing "Good Morning, Good Morning" from Singing in the Rain (I substitute "You didn't sleep the whole night through" instead of "We talked the whole night through")
• She loves to take baths in her Bumbo seat
• She got her ears pierced at 4 months old--she cried with the initial pinch, but hasn't been bothered by them since
• She was a ghost for Halloween
• She has survived 2 natural disasters and 2 major power outages (one for 5 days the other for 7 days) in her short lifespan (Tropical Storm Irene and Winter Storm Alfred)
• When you poke her tummy when it is flexed, she giggles and giggles