4 months

Dear Ali,

My sweet girl you are growing so much! This month has been insane as far as your schedule goes. We have been to Mexico, Disneyland and now Heber all within about 3 weeks! You have had lots of attention since we are around family so much. Everyone loves your chunky thighs and long eyelashes. :) You are still a pretty good baby but you are SPOILED! If you don't get what you want within 5 minutes of crying you are screaming like there's no tomorrow. It's kind of funny actually but not in the moment ;) Your Prevacid seems to be working though you still spit up quite a bit. You are an ok sleeper but because you are always sleeping some place different you can't quite keep a schedule down. We will probably do cry it out soon :( I'm gonna die. My little princess shouldn't have to cry! ;)

You love your brother and could talk to him all day. You are finally starting to giggle a little and it's the sweetest thing. We painted your nails a few days ago and I still love dressing you and picking accessories. You are really close to rolling over but not quite there! I think you could do it if you tried but you get on your side and that's enough. You've started rolling on your side to sleep and its really cute. You somehow wiggled out of your swing the other day. Almost gave me a heart attack to find you on the floor!! 

We haven't started any baby food or cereal yet and I think we will wait a bit. You are doing fine nutrition wise and with your tummy troubles I don't want to make anything worse. 

We love you Ali bug. You continue to make me one happy mommy and watching you grow is one of my favorite things. But it's happening too fast! 

Love,

Mom

3 months!

Dear Ali,

You have turned into a BABY and are no longer a tiny newborn. You have developed so much this month, and continue to make us smile every day! This month flew by and we stayed super busy going to the water park and we even went to Disneyland again! You lucky little girl, you've already been twice in your short life! (Actually 3 times if you include the time you went in my belly! ;)You are Luke's favorite person, and I think he might be yours. You guys can just lay by each other cooing and talking and holding hands all day. Luke loves giving you kisses on your head and you love watching him run around. You guys are going to be best buds! (I hope.) This month you started some acid-reflex medicine. We didn't have much luck with the first kind because it was liquid and really gross. We just switched to another and hope it works better! You've had a few rough days but you're still a good girl. You are holding your head up like a champ and you already like sitting in your bumbo. You're slowly growing out of your swing. You LOVE reaching for your "toys" on your car seat or your bouncy seat and it's so cute watching you focus as hard as you can to get your fingers around them. You still love bath time and I let you soak as long as possible before you start getting wrinkly and the water cools too much. You're still a pretty good eater but since your through-the-night routine isn't completely set, it kinda messes up your day time routine. You tend to eat sometime between 3:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., and that makes your morning feeding kind of hard to pin point! But we'll get there. You are wearing LOTS of 6 month clothes and I'm sure you're still on the top of the percentile range. So chunky and beautiful ;) You have learned how to cry for attention, and you have different cries for different things. It helps when I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with you. Sometimes you will just burst into tears out of no where for no reason. Alllll girl ;) I think you MIGHT be getting some teeth, but more than likely they are just coming up and down. You have had a rough week with gas issues, and I have tried pin-pointing the culprit. All I can come up with is peanuts/almonds/nuts/peanut butter. I'm steering clear of them the rest of this week to see it helps you. Poor girl :( But you are still so fun. Dressing you, cuddling you, feeding you, holding you, looking at you....I love it all. It's just gone so fast and worries me because you're already 1/4 a year old!!! Too fast. Slow down. You are our princess! Love you so much.

Love,

Mom