4 months Old
She is reaching milestones with grace and some she's even reaching before she's expected to!!! As of right now she is rolling from her tummy to her back and is almost sitting by herself. She sits upright with little assistance and can even sit unassisted for a few seconds before teetering over. She loves to be upright where she can see everything and be apart of the action. She is very nosy!!!
She talks non stop and now she realizes her voice has different tones and decibels and is using them to her advantage...yes...even at 4am when they're most appreciated! LOL She is for the most part sleeping through the night. She has a few nights here and there that she gets up halfway through for a quick snack and back off to baby dream land she goes. She usually goes down for the night around 11pm and will sleep until 5 am or sometimes later. So we are making progress there.
With the start of her fourth month we started solid foods. We started he
r off with Banana's and Applesauce to which she was not very receptive to either. She didn't like the difference in texture and just wanted her bottle back. She makes the most awful faces no matter what you put in her mouth. We've remained consistent with her and she's slowly coming around to the idea. We've started giving her rice cereal mixed with her fruit and she seems to be taking to that a little more each night. She'll get there eventually but for now the faces she makes in response to the food is just too funny!!!Bailey celebrated her first ever Fourth of July!!! We started the holiday out with a trip to the 
carnival 
where she watched her big brother ride the rides and he even won her a stuffed fish which she LOVES. They kids had a great time and they got an extra special treat because their Aunt Jessica came to spend the week with them. We took the kids to the fireworks on Thursday night at Wissahickon High School. Matty has been 
terrified of them every year but this year he was very brave and watched the entire display with awe!!! Bailey only fussed and got mad when I tried to cover her ears to shield her ear drums from those big booms. She wanted no parts of my holding her ears...she watched with delight and enjoyed every minute of the fireworks display. She was even battling a head cold and still was very good through the entire night!!!
carnival 
where she watched her big brother ride the rides and he even won her a stuffed fish which she LOVES. They kids had a great time and they got an extra special treat because their Aunt Jessica came to spend the week with them. We took the kids to the fireworks on Thursday night at Wissahickon High School. Matty has been 
terrified of them every year but this year he was very brave and watched the entire display with awe!!! Bailey only fussed and got mad when I tried to cover her ears to shield her ear drums from those big booms. She wanted no parts of my holding her ears...she watched with delight and enjoyed every minute of the fireworks display. She was even battling a head cold and still was very good through the entire night!!!
Her head cold started sometime Thursday morning and was full blown by Friday. She even thought it was nice to share it with the rest of the household getting ALL of us sick!!! So we've all been battling the dreaded summer cold and we've all been quite miserable!!! Bailey seems pleased with herself though because she remains in
pretty good spirits through it all. She has red swollen puffy eyes and a HUGE GUMMY SMILE every day waiting for me when I get home from work!!! I just love it!!! She went to the doctors today and got eye drops for her eye that is swollen and red and in just two weeks is now weighing 15 pounds even. She is growing by leaps and bounds...all too fast!!!! Getting to be such a big girl!!! She has even joyed her time in her new Jumperoo we got her a couple weeks ago. She loves to be in there bouncy and playing away...she doesn't let a little head cold stop her or slow her down!!!Bailey also traded in her bassinet/pack and play
for her crib. She was getting too big to be in the pack and play full time so we went out and got her a mattress and built her crib and she got to sleep in it the first time on Sunday nite!!! She looks so small in her crib but she seems very comfortable on the mattress and slept pretty well the first two nights so far considering she hasn't been feeling very well!!!We have a busy summer ahead of us...as if Mommy isn't busy enough as it is...after all her updates are coming out later and later!!! I still have to get her 3 month pictures out to everyone...I am so behind!!! We are taking the kids to the aquarium the end of the month!!! Matty is super excited about that and I think Bailey will be interested in all the sites to see there as well!!! In August we'll be taking a long weekend and going to the beach with Aunt Peanut and Aunt Jessica...and then the end of August we'll be taking a long weekend and going to Great Wolf Lodge/Waterpark with Grandma Debbie!!! We are very excited and looking forward to August coming...August is also Mommy's birthday so it'll be an exciting month. Matty turns 6 Labor Day weekend and the back to school!!! WHEW BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!
More Babies will be born soon to join Bailey, Joshua and Brody!!! We're still waiting on Dakota Lynn Dimmick, Adrianna Marie Foraker, Baby Surprise Benedetto, Avery Rose Johnson and Baby Girl Greco all being born between now and September!!! And we continue to pray for my very good friend Devi who lost her baby boy Christopher Andrew at 19 weeks due to a placental abruption...this perfect little boy will be in my heart forever and never be forgotten...he's playing happily in heaven with Baby Miles, Baby Shannon and our baby we lost this past year and I just know my nephew Raymond is watching over these babies and loving them for us until we can be with them again!!!
Well that is all the updates for now. Sorry it took me so long to get them out and sorry for having to bunch them all into one!!!! Things are crazy around here with work, the kids, Matty's camp days and all the other happenings going on!!! We hope to see everyone at some point this summer!!!
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