bernadette: four months old.
if you're keeping track here, you might notice that this post is OVER A MONTH LATE. that's a new record for me. i'll take my trophy whenever. but i am still posting this update because gosh dang it, i will give my third child equal (although not identical) treatment to her older siblings.
turns out, month four is historically pretty hard on me. if you look back at William's four month post, i was late on that one by a month too! and even Amelia's four month post was two weeks late! see? historically, this is where the adrenaline of giving birth and enjoying the newborn stage wears off and i become a living zombie.
i will say that i loved four months with Bernadette because she has officially become the best napper of our children. she puts herself to sleep like a champ, and while she isn't super consistent with nap times or lengths yet (which is totally normal), i like knowing that she will go to sleep when she's tired without much help.
little miss Bernadette has started to want to get in on everything lately, and she's been staying up for longer stretches, so there is a bit of frustration that she can't do what her siblings do, and also she gets bored easily. she started to go to grandma daycare with the other kids one day a week so i can get work done. it started to get to be too hard to work with her needing to be entertained so often, and if i'm being honest, i have loved getting some time back to myself. this is my first time being a stay at home mom with a new baby, so that feeling of hating going back to work hasn't happened, and instead an appreciation of alone time has replaced it. it's strange, and wouldn't you know it, just something else that kids have taught me about myself.
(with cousin-auntie hanna)
she is still eating like a champ and growing so much i can hardly keep up. one thing i will never get used to is the emotions caused by babies growing out of their clothes. it's so silly to get so sad about something so little, but it will always be that way. she is also the happiest baby i've ever met. she fusses if she's hungry or tired or she can't see anyone else in the room, but other than that it's all smiles for this one. she likes to be held facing out, never cuddled in, so she can see what's happening around her at all times. my arms are super strong right now. the four month sleep regression is upon us and it's terrible as always, but the happy baby mood is (mostly) worth it.
miss Bernadette: you are going to be a force to be reckoned with and might be our most outgoing, extroverted child yet, and we can't wait to see it. thanks for giving us smiles without making us work too hard, you've been a shining light for our whole family these past four months. we love you tons!
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