4 months

 Things are going well. Rose is talking often, warming up her voice for when she learns words and needs to compete with her brothers. She's also been blowing bubbles a lot because her teeth are starting to come in and she's gotten pretty drooly. Still full of smiles. Sometimes she doesn't like being held by others and tries to get back to her mom. She's learned a new trick of grabbing her left foot, and then usually rolls over onto her side. She hasn't found her right foot yet. Her brothers continue to be excited about her and talk to her and entertain her. Oliver always comes with a lot of energy. Finn tells her stories with toys while Oliver is off at school. We have another cold, but it doesn't bother her too much, barely protests and hasn't really made it hard for her to nurse. We went and saw an opera written by her Grandpa Howard and Rose was pretty interested in the music (her brothers were entranced and sitting on the edge of their seats.) Moving forwards.

Halloween and 4 months

She's getting more and more awake. Now when I hold her she holds her head up the whole time, doesn't want to be faced in towards me, she wants to be propped looking out to see the world and her brothers. Her legs are getting stronger also, if we hold her on the table they don't collapse underneath her right away. Still smiley all the time, she's been making a lot of noise lately, coo's and squawks and things. Very drooly lately, we wonder if she's teething, the boys got their first teeth at 4 months. I feel like I haven't been getting a lot of time with her lately, she is maybe a tiny bit sick, and the time change means she's pretty tired when I get home so I only get to hold her for a minute or two before she wants her mom and to go to sleep. But the past two mornings she's been awake early, I think she was bapping me in the face to wake me up, so I had some time with her then, her wiggling and dancing and smiling and me trying to get my eyes open. She's also getting more aware of her mom, when strangers try and hold her she wants to get back.

We weren't going to do a halloween costume, but at the last minute decided that even if she did sleep through halloween and wouldn't want to wear it we should anyway. So I whipped up a gnome hat with some braids and we dressed her all in green.

So things are good, growing well, getting stronger, loving her brothers.