Perry Frances is 4 months old!

Perry Frances is 4 months old today!!! 

Official stats:
Weight:  15 lbs, 13.5 oz. (82%)
Height:  26.5 in. (99%)
Head:  16.5 in. (98%)

Perry has become SO smiley the last few days!  We are eating it up!!!  For a while, she had this sound that we called her laugh, but tonight she started giggling for real. :)  A few days ago, she started rolling over from back to tummy regularly!  She looks so proud of herself when she does it.  It is opening up a whole new world for her.  She rolled from tummy to back a couple of random times, but not consistently yet. 

She has started using a few new and exciting toys this month, like the step 'n play piano, the jumperoo, and the bumbo.  She is learning how to really "play".  Instead of just staring at things, she grabs at them and holds them.  We have said this from day one, but she is really alert and gets really focused on whatever she is looking at with a wide-eyed stare.  Sometimes I wonder if she ever blinks! She has so much more control of her body this month.  I can hold her on my hip and not worry so much about making sure her head is supported.  That was an exciting thing for me!  She still loves her hands and feet!  She is constantly chewing on her hands.  She loves when we sing and talk to her in a baby voice.

She is still eating every 3-3.5 hours.  We have moved towards doing more bottles and we all seem to do better with that.  She has been going through a bit of a sleep regression this last week, waking up a lot more often at night.  Before this week, she would only wake up once to eat in the middle of the night around 2:30, then go right back to bed.  She also likes to wake up at 5:30 for the day and not go back to sleep.  We want to start her day around 6:30-7, but we don't know what to do to get her to sleep that extra hour!  We stopped swaddling her last week.  It just seemed like time.  And the fact that she now rolls from back to tummy was the nail in the coffin for the swaddle.  She sleeps in Baby Merlin's Magic Sleep Suit for nighttime sleep and naps and seems to love it!

She has been sleeping in her own room for 2 nights now.  She had been in our room in her pack-n-play up to that point.  We just couldn't part with her!  It is so convenient to have her close for middle of the night wakings, and we liked having her close so we could hear her.  However, we were all starting to realize that we would sleep more soundly in our own spaces.  And it is nice to have our room and bathroom back. :)  So far, so good!  She is still waking up multiple times, but it doesn't seem to have made anything worse.  I think she likes it in there!  She has become a great napper!  Days I am at home with her, she takes 3 naps that are typically anywhere from 1-1.5 hours.  Naps at school are all over the place, but I'm trying to let go of that because it doesn't seem to affect her at home.

We have had so much fun with our girl this last month!  She is growing so fast.  We are really looking forward to our first holiday season with her coming up! :)