Mika at 4 Months

She weighs 14 pounds and 10 ounces (75th percentile), and she is 25 inches long (90th percentile). She can't fit into any three-month clothes anymore, just sixes and nines. She still sleeps through the night with one wake-up call and takes three naps.

Big girl seat!

She just discovered her hands and feet. She will stare at her hands moving with a confused/amused look on her face. She also likes to grab her toes. She just got really into objects. She loves to pick things up and put them in her mouth. If she can't pick it up, she will swat it with her hands or kick it. I am getting rid of all our plastic teething toys and replacing them with wooden ones. My professor mentioned that little girls are going through puberty earlier and earlier and that hormone disrupters in plastics might be part of the problem (and no, just because something is BPA-free doesn't necessarily make it safe). So she is 100% breastfed with no bottles, uses wooden toys, doesn't use a pacifier, and will have metal utensils and no plastic dishes. I'm also contemplating getting rid of more plastic stuff around the kitchen. (I thought being a second-time mom was supposed to make you less anal retentive?????)

Much healthier than plastic ;)

Mika being a couch potato. It's ok because it's an Auburn game??

She is alllllllmost rolling over, she will roll almost all the way over and then throw herself back. I thought she was rolling all the way over, then I realized that Jackson was rolling her over when my back was turned.

 I mean...seriously. Mika, just freaking roll all the way over. Geez.

However, she can usually sit for ten to twenty seconds in the tripod stance. She likes to sit and bang on her books.

She is just a sweetheart and wonderful baby. She is the easier of the two kids and is so chill unless she's hungry/sleepy/wet.

Trip to Steamboat Springs

Paul had to take a business trip to Steamboat Springs, so the kids and I tagged along for a free vacation. Paul picked the perfect hotel for us because it was right next to the Yampa River Core Trail. One mile north put you in downtown and half of a mile south put you at the botanical garden.

I think people from Colorado are the nicest people EVER. Example 1. You see those sticks he's holding? I had to hurry him across the street so a car could turn and he dropped the sticks in the crosswalk and was really upset. The driver saw Jackson crying, stopped the car, and got out and gave Jackson his sticks back. Who does that?!? People from Colorado.

Example 2. We ate at a bar with Paul's coworkers the last night. Jackson wandered over to the pool area and some random guys there put their money in to get balls out for Jackson to throw into the pockets. One of them even put Jackson on a chair and helped him with the cue. They showed him how to put the money in to get the balls out. When Jackson would run out of balls, they let him take quarters from their pile to go get more. They even gave Jackson the rest of their quarters when we left. They spent at least $10 on this random kid they didn't know. Who does that?!? People from Colorado.

Walking on the trail with Jackson was SO FRUSTRATING. He takes for.ev.er. to walk because he's looking at everything. I think it took us almost an hour to get to the botanical garden. I hate telling him to hurry up, so my strategy was to walk ahead to a shady spot, read my kindle while I waited for him to catch up, walk to the next shady spot, read my kindle while he caught up, etc. Here I am this -> <- close to the entrance...

...and here is Jackson way back there, squatting and banging some rocks together. I think it took us almost an hour to walk there. It only took us ten minutes to get back because he stood on the stroller and ate a snack while I walked back.

Mika likes to hang out like this in stroller. She is so silly!

posing on the turtle at the garden

It's a BIG rock!

random horse downtown