Clara Four Months

Baby Clara turned four months old on Saturday and as you can see she's as cute as ever - (I totally should have brushed her hair some more before the pictures, but I only have a very short window to take them as you can see from below.) 

^^That was an outfit Amélie chose herself. 

I haven't been to get Clara weighed this month, but I'm pretty sure she's growing just fine as you tell from the developing chubbiness. Lately, she has become so active. She's always rolling from her back to her belly whenever I put her on the ground. She tries to twist and turn out of her bed and bouncy chair and just doesn't want to be in one place for too long. She can grab her toys now and plays with rattles and other easy to grab things. She always puts everything in her mouth - the opposite of Amelie who never put anything in her mouth as a baby. I think weaning with Clara will be a bit easier since she's so willing to taste everything. We won't officially try weaning until she's six months, but I'm hoping it will be a faster process than with Amelie. 

Clara is still breastfeeding in a similar pattern to last month, she usually stretches to every 3 hours during the day. She's been sleeping mainly 7pm-7am with a feed or two in between. Nap times have become shorter lately and usually don't last more than an hour, but she still has at least 3 naps during the day. She's been much better than Amelie at this age with going to sleep on her own. I used to feed or rock Amelie to sleep, but with Clara I can usually put her down and she'll soothe herself to sleep by sucking on her fingers. I bet she would love a pacifier, but I don't want to deal with breaking the habit later on. 

Other than that, Clara is still a good little baby, but I can tell she needs more and more attention now as she wants to play and is always trying to escape from where I put her down. She still likes being in baby K'tan or my Solly baby wrap, but just not for as long periods of time as when she was a newborn. We're looking forward to the Christmas break and doing lots of fun activities soon!