she's so cute ...

last night, Rick and I took turns making Audrey laugh. As she was laying in her crib, we kissed her cheeks, kissed her nose, tickled her feet, waved her arms back and forth, and talked at the tops of our voices -- all tactics to make her laugh incessantly.



As of about a week ago, she's learned to grasp and pull things toward her like a pro, chomping on them with her new teeth and soaking them in slobber.



The latter was learned by Oscar when we weren't looking, I'm sure. They are good buddies and he thinks of her as his baby too:



So, when it was my turn to kiss her pink cheeks to make her laugh, she stretched out both of her arms and placed her tiny hands on my cheeks. She looked right at me in a way that made me feel like I might die from an overdose of happiness. A moment I won't soon forget.

I thought to myself something that Rick had said a few days after she was born, "she's so cute, let her do whatever she wants." In other words, we're bigger saps than we realized and are in BIG trouble when she starts asking for things.

four month checkup

Doctor's appointment! The doctor measured and weighed Audrey, and it turns out that she's long and skinny. No surprise, but interesting to hear that she's in the 89th percentile for length, and to find out that she was longer than her mother was at four months. She is a tall baby.

teething already?

Today was a big day to say the least. It was back to work for me and Audrey's first day at daycare. After forcing myself not to call the daycare every 10 minutes, I decided to check in mid-day. They said that everything was fine and going well, which was what I had hoped to hear. What I did not expect to hear was that they thought Audrey had a tooth coming in and was a little irritated about it. When we picked her up, we had to see it for ourselves to believe it. Sure enough, a sharp and tiny tooth was poking through her lower gum. Now, I am a newbie at this but, I imagined this happening at around 6 months or so. I guess I also imagined that she wouldn't be born 2.5 weeks early and that she'd wait to rollover until 5 or 6 months. It is clear that this girl has set her own pace.

Perhaps I could have guessed she was teething from the constant hand chewing and drool-sopped shirt. This is what she looked like most of the weekend:



She also enjoyed her first Fourth of July, just maybe not the fireworks that were being set off in our neighborhood at bedtime.

polka dot princess

This girl cannot be stopped from rolling over and rotating in a circle. We found her with her head facing the opposite direction in her crib this morning!