{"id":2991,"date":"2009-10-19T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2009-10-18T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:03:22","slug":"four-month-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"Four-month update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avery is four months today, and there are a few developments to report on. She’s constantly “talking” these days – if you say something to her, she usually coos in a rhythmic pattern, as if she’s trying to respond. She’s incredibly smiley – she almost always grins and shakes in happiness when someone picks her up from her crib in the morning or after a nap – and she still (usually) isn’t much of a crier. She’s finally starting to show interest in little toys, and she loves holding on to things. (She has a really strong grip!) We recently brought out the ExerSaucer, as shown below<\/a>, and she gets really excited to stand there and explore its little animals and playthings. <\/p>\n

As for physical milestones, she’s been able to roll over to her side for awhile now – but she now does it all the time: if you put her on her back, you’ll likely find her on her side the next time you look. (Taking the picture below, as example, was a bit of a challenge. Every time I got ready to snap a photo, she rolled over!) She also doesn’t seem to mind “tummy time” like some babies do, and she can hold her head up for fairly long stretches of time. A few weeks ago, she also started to “scoot” up and down; when we put her in the middle of her crib, she usually winds up at the top in just a few minutes. <\/p>\n

We’ve gotten her on a nice eating schedule (7 AM, 11 AM, 2:30 PM, 6:30 PM, 9:30 PM) during the day\/evening, but we’re still working out the middle-of-the-night thing. She had been waking up just once to eat for many weeks, but she regressed after our travels last month and a little cold last week; now she’s waking up two or more times a night. (Oy!) Given my recent return to work, the timing is unfortunate – but we just have to be positive that she’ll turn it around sometime soon!<\/p>\n

As mentioned earlier, she measures 25.5 inches and weighs about 15.5 pounds now. She’s had some more (dark brown) hair grow in, and her eyes remain grey-blue. Zoe’s didn’t change until she was more than a year, though – so it will likely be awhile before we know what color Avery’s eyes really will be!<\/p>\n

In honor of the four-month mark, I thought it was a good time to take a photo with Lou. Check out how much she’s grown since her last picture<\/a> with him. <\/p>\n

-M<\/p>\n

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Avery is four months today, and there are a few developments to report on. She’s constantly “talking” these days – if you say something to her, she usually coos in a rhythmic pattern, as if she’s trying to respond. She’s incredibly smiley – she almost always grins and shakes in happiness when someone picks her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39two-kids-october-09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}