Wow, where has the time gone? I can not believe our baby is 4 month old already. I know we have been through so much in the last 4 months but it still feels like Nora was just born. It is amazing how quickly she is changing. People say not to blink cause the next thing you know you are dropping them off at college, I think they may be right!
Over the past month we have gone from smiles to laughing to now screaming. Nora has for sure found her voice and she loves to let you know it. I can sit here with her for hours just laughing. She makes the funny faces and sounds so the more I laugh the more she does which then makes me laugh harder...vicious cycle, haha. She has also discovered that EVERYTHING can go in her mouth now..especially her hands. She also really likes holding things like tag blankets, rattles and teethers alike. She hasn't figured out how to not hit her self in the head when shaking the rattle. But she loves it.
Since turning 4 months we have hit so many exciting milestones! At our 4 month check up our pediatrician gave us the okay to start Nora on rice cereal by spoon feeding. The first time we tried it was a new adventure, we are starting better at it with each feeding.
We are certainly still have a little thing. Nora finally passed up 10 pounds weighing in at 10 lbs 9 oz at 4 month! She has just now started growing out her newborn clothes but most 3 month or 0-3 is still too big so we will have to grow in to them :) Nora is for sure a mover and a groover. She is constantly kicking and wiggling. She has wanted to roll over now for a long time she would get to her side and not be able to go any further, boy did this make her made. Finally after a week or so of trying without success on January 30th she ROLLED OVER!! She went from her back to her front and then the next day she went from her belly to her back. Now she is a rolling machine! I will post pictures when I can get all stage of her rolling over, she seem to know when the camera is out and gets shy.
Next up on our rollercoaster they call parenthood is some hearing test for Nora. Earlier this week we has the first round of hearing test completed. We have noticed she is not very responsive to noise, when you slam a door you rarely get a startle out of her. She passed the 2 test they did in the office, this means that she has all the "hardware" to hear. Since she doesn't respond to loud noise they want to do a test to see if the "wiring" is there, so they will test her 8th nerve to see if it transmits the sound to her brain.
The test is called a BAER test. The tricky part is going to be to get her to sleep through the test, I am thankful they are not sedating (which they originally planned) her but trying to sleep deprive a 4 month old so she sleeps through the test may be interesting. We are hoping that its only lack in development because of her Hydracephalus and nothing more serious. We will just have to wait and see. We have gotten through everything else and we will get through this next hurdle. We have a strong little girl!
As always keep out little girl in your prayers!!
