Skylar had her 4-month checkup appointment yesterday.  She weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs 10 oz (gained 2 oz since Friday’s appointment!) and 22 1/4 inches in length.  Her head was 15 3/4″.  That puts her in the 5% for weight, the 3% for height and the 25% for head size.  She’s definitely at the bottom of these curves!  The doctor said that if she’s going to make a move on the curves that she’ll most likely do it by her 6-month checkup.  If not, she’ll probably be on the small side long-term.  I guess that’s not necessarily a bad thing- the pediatrician wasn’t worried about her weight so I guess I shouldn’t be either.  The rest of her checkup went well- all was good with her.  She got 2 shots and an oral vaccine- I can’t remember right now what they were but they were the same ones as her 2-month checkup.  She did much better with the shots this time.  She cried of course but it took much less time to calm her down than last time!!!

She slept in the car after her appointment on the way down to the Springs.  I dropped her off at daycare and stayed to feed her her mid-morning bottle and then headed down to work.  We had given her some Tylenol before her shots in hopes of avoiding the crankiness we experienced with her after her 2-month vaccinations.  It seemed to do the trick because the daycare ladies said she just seemed sleepy during the day- not cranky.  She did OK last night too- her schedule was a bit off so she missed 1 of her bottles but I figured she would survive for 1 day.  I gave her a bath and fed her her last bottle at 8:30pm and she was asleep by 9:15pm and slept thru til 5:15am this morning!  Yay!  I was in bed by 9:30pm last night to take advantage of the extra sleep!  (After checking Facebook of course and playing FarmVille for a little bit!  I’m totally addicted to that game right now!  It’s a bad thing… I had to harvest my crops before going to bed last night so I didn’t lose any of my crops!) 

Here’s a picture of Chris holding her last night when he got home:

And a picture of her in her bouncy seat chewing on the caterpillar’s butt 

 

I’m totally looking forward to the weekend of course.  Unfortunately, Chris has to work tomorrow and the weather is supposed to turn nasty (the high for yesterday was 72!) so I’m looking for something to get me out of the house (providing it isn’t a blizzard outside!  just kidding… we’re not supposed to get much accumulation- that I’ve heard of anyway…)  No major plans for the weekend- just resting as much as possible to catch up on sleep that we miss out on during the week.

Happy Friday the 13th to everyone!