Elia Turns Four Months! This is the age where she exerts her own personality, is insistent on being held, and has become interactive and adorable.
As stated in the doctor post, Elia is 10 pounds one ounce, 15 inch circumference for her head, and 22.25 inches long. At four months she can roll front to back, can almost roll back to front, clasps her hands together and has a lot of gas. Oh, she is getting cuter every day with long eye lashes and slowly developing eyebrows. Both her eyelashes and eyebrows are lighter than Curie so don’t show up as well.
Her habits are very regular, eating every three hours (NICU schedule), needing a hundred pats to burp, milk coma, then sleeping, then waking crying, then burping or passing gas, getting changed and starting all over again. In the middle of that, there is a baby smiling and full of wonder, taking everything in.
Bernard already posted about their visit, and while Curie and Eleanor hung out, Elia hung out with Bernard and Agnes. We went to Marshfield, MA for some family time as mentioned, and spent the beginning of the month in New Orleans – Elia’s first plane ride. Elia and Brenda bonded in New Orleans, and while Elia didn’t get to try crawfish, we promise we will take her back when she can. She did great on the trip out to New Orleans, but after being constipated for a week decided not to be on the way back. Poor Erin.
Elia is always moving and very strong. She sits on your lap without neck support, only likes to face outward, and is always squirming. She is starting to really take things in, but the best part is how quick she is to laugh and smile.
We seem to be living day by day these days, going through the routine, but she will only be this age now and we have to remember to appreciate and enjoy. It is funny we say that almost every post whether it be for Curie or Elia, but you do get caught up in the happening of the moment and find yourself a little exasperated, a little tired, and a little whatever else that keeps you from relishing the moment. So be it the wonderful quite of a 5 AM feeding, or the warmth of the child sitting against your chest in the Baby Bjorn, it may be when she wakes before mommy or Curie, or if she is curled in the crook of your arm: relish and remember, there is only now, there is only now.
