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01 Jun 2011 abby: 4 months.
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Miss Abby had her 4-month appointment this morning.  It was a week or so late due to my change in jobs (and thus, change in insurance).

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4 Month Abby Stats

Weight:  10 lbs, 15 oz.

[[3.3 percentile]]

Length:  24 inches

[[30.8 percentile]]

Head Circumference:  16 inches

[[32.6 percentile]]

She’s staying on track to be tall & skinny.  The doctor’s fine with her weight since she eats well and looks & acts healthy.  She’s just thin.  She almost has one roll on each thigh…

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Developmentally, she can do everything she should at 4 months, and is acting like a 6-7 month old in some areas.  Yay Abby!

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She did a good job at the doctor:  she had fun looking around & watching what was going on when her ears were looked at.  She was getting hungry when shot time came around, so she sucked down the oral rotavirus vaccine in record time (according to the nurse!), then screamed when she got her shots.  Poor baby.

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Abby’s becoming quite the talker.  She talks to her hands, frog, Angry Bird, & mobile, along with the ceiling fan in our room when I lay her on our bed.  She also talks to her little friends at school.  One little girl is 3 days older than Abby, and they lie on the floor and talk to each other.  Another little girl close to Abby’s age started about a week ago.  When I came to pick her up, she was talking to her, telling her all about school, I guess.  What a helpful baby!  It’s so cute to listen to.  Check out David’s video on facebook of her talking if you haven’t already.  Adorable!

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The end.

07 Apr 2011 abby: 2 months.
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So excited to be two months old!

[March 20, 2011]

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Length:  22 inches:  37th Percentile

Weight:  8 lbs, 14 oz:  9th Percentile

Head Circumference:  15 inches:  34th Percentile

Abby’s still our teensy little baby.  She is in [mostly] all 0-3 month clothes, which are actually starting to fit her now.  We just started her in size 1 diapers in the last week or so, which are still huge on her, but she eats what a 2.5 month old baby should, so she needs diapers to accommodate the output of a 2.5 month old.

She was not really a fan of the shots at her two month appointment; she got the oral vaccine first, which she wasn’t too sure about at first. Then she decided, “Eh, it’s something to eat,” and just went with it. David held her for her shots, and she was okay at first, but then had a horrible delayed blood-curdling scream! Poor little girl. She got three shots and two pink camouflage band aids. She was not pleased with me when I took the band aids off and screamed again. Poor Daddy was home with her that day, and had to deal with Miss Crankypants.

Abby is a smiley baby if you ask her if she tormented Daddy and Bones the previous day (David’s been home on paternity leave for the past 2.5 weeks).  She likes her angry bird toy and will smile and make noises at it, along with following it with her eyes.  When she hears me talking, she’ll look around to try to find me if someone else is holding her.  She is also sometimes Crabby Abby, also referred to as cr-Abby.

She will lay on the mat of her mobile gym for 2-3 cycles of the music (15-20 minutes) and stare at herself in the mirror, look at the spinning birdies, and kick the hippo.  When she’s on her tummy, she can lift her head and chest to look straight ahead (90 degrees) if she feels like it.  She kicks and gets her knees under herself and thinks she can crawl.  When we were in Fargo for her baptism, she rolled over from her tummy to her back, which has been repeated just once.  She usually just flings her legs and hips over, then gets bored.  She tries to stand when someone holds her up, which is really fun at bath time when I’m trying to wash her back!

Abby has exciting Houdini skills too.  She can completely escape from her sleep-sack!  Not quite sure how she manages that, but there have been a few mornings when she has escaped from her little cocoon and it’s all down by her feet.  Fairly impressive considering the amount of velcro on those things!

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