Four Months!

Little Baboo is four months old! She is 25 inches long and weighs 14 lbs 13 oz. Dave and I aren't sure when she went from looking like a baby to looking like a little person, but it seems to have happened overnight. Since David and I are both in school, life around here is a pretty complicated juggle. We're glad that we can shuffle home, school, and church life without needing daycare or a sitter--one of us is always home with Hollie. There are days, however, when we have to switch shifts at school, so Hollie has also taken lots of walks to campus and back as a result. She is very careful not to scream when we walk past classes in session, thankfully. (And everyone at school LOVES her...she better not get an attention complex.)

Hollie loves:

• her bare feet rubbed on Dad's beard
• the DuckTales theme song, especially when Dad sings it (she laughs at the "Woo-ooh!"s)
• reading her 123 Texas book from Aunt Liz
• watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with Mom & Dad (I think it must be the garish red and blue sets)
• when Dad plays guitar and Mom sings
• splashing in the bath
• playing with her blocks, her Grover doll, and her giraffe
• acting out the part of Jacob Marley by rattling her plastic chains and moaning
• grabbing her feet
• grabbing at toys that dangle from her bounce-chair (though, in general, she hates her bounce-chair)
• jabbering (she's become quite the chatterbox, just in these last two weeks)
• being in what David refers to as her "hot air balloon"—when we walk her around the perimeter of the house and let her casually look around and see the sights

Hollie hates:

• having a runny nose (her first one ever was this week)
• going to sleep
• waking up
• getting dressed
• her carseat
• anything that confines her from kicking and stretching out her legs

We are excited to try feeding her rice cereal, but we might wait until we get back from Georgia to try it. Dave and Hollie are coming with me to a professional conference next week, and we are excited and nervous. Hollie in a hotel room for four days will be an adventure indeed (not to mention the plane rides and train rides). We're hoping she likes the swimming pool! (I think I am more excited/anxious about that than about actually presenting my paper.)

Here is a short clip of Hollie's laughs. This has been hard to document because she is usually the most giggly at nighttime when we are too tired to get the camera out.