Love, bubs and life on our little farm

My beautiful little one is now 4 months old. And what a change has happened in the last month! She is very smiley and laughy, she loves watching Jase and Elka's faces. She has reached that observant stage where she is just drinking in the world and trying to figure it out with her big blue eyes. She loves tickles and makes cute shrieks and cacks. She also loves kisses up her neck and on her cheeks and beams openmouthed approval when you do it.

She now quite likes playing on her tummy and is a good roller from tummy to back. She can also do back to side. She is all about chewing at the moment - her toys, her comforter bunny, my hands, everything gets knawed on! She is happy lying on a rug playing toys, pulling them over to bring them to her mouth. She has started using her tigger bouncer and loves her activity centre - she has the hang of pressing the piano buttons now to play music endlessly! It keeps her happy for ages which is great for me getting things done!

She is a great day sleeper - has one or two long sleeps of about 2 hours plus some 45 min naps but she is still waking at night which she started when she was 3 months (after spoiling me with sleeping through when she was younger!). She wakes for feeds at about 9.30pm, 2-3am and then 5-6am, so I am not getting good blocks of sleep particularly as with the construction, most days tradies are arriving between 6-6.30am. Oh well, hopefully a few more months and I will get some peaceful nights again :)

Bronte has always been mummy clingy but she is very much so at the moment. If anyone else takes her out of my arms then she starts screaming and won't calm down until she is given back to me. Makes things a bit tiring some days! The other day, my Mum and I were sitting together and Mum transferred Bronte from my lap to hers, and Bronte leant over to me and had both her arms out for me to grab her - seems early for that behaviour to have begun already!

She has taken to holding anything that I have in my hands whilst I am carrying her and she is super keen to grab food off me and put spoons etc in her mouth. I think she is ready for solids - I am holding off until she has recovered from her immmunisations (which she got today) and then I think I will try some breastmilk and farex... I am hoping solids will help fill her up at night too - it seemed to help satisfy Elka when she went through this same 3/4 month waking at night thing.

Her growth has slowed - she was only 6.7kgs today at the doctor (so has dropped from 90th to 75th percentile) and is 63cm long...

I am loving having my bubba snuggles - I am trying to make the most of every moment of having my last little baby, she is so damn cuddly and sweet. I already can't believe how fast the time has gone and how much she has changed!