Four Month Check-up...She's a Keeper!

Well, yesterday was a fun day....Faith's four month check up and shots! Bubba and I had played around, weighing her with us and then doing the math. We figured she was somewhere between 15 and 16 pounds, a whopper! At the doctor yesterday,we found out we were ALMOST right as the nurse announced, "She's 17 pounds even." WOW~! Not only was she 17 lbs, she was 26 inches long! We are accepting bids from pro teams right now to sign her to an early contract. Anyone interested?


Faith was such a ham in the waiting room and with the nurse, laughing and playing and eating her hand and her dress...but she grew tired while waiting for Dr. Loden (he's everyone's doctor in our family...we love him!). Well, this was her response to his cold stethoscope on her bare back as she slept... I think she looks like me in the pic below...lol

Dr. Loden looked her up and down and began plotting her growth on the chart...95th%ile all the way around! At least she's proportional! We cautiously asked if we should cut back on the food a little, and he said no, to just feed her till she's full! Ok. She's not really a roley polly fat baby, she's just so long and as I like to say "stacked"!

Lately, she has been really enjoying her cereal mixed with veggies. She will get upset if you do not have the next spoon ready for her when she is done with the last. She's also been finding her mouth (with everything available) and is now taking her passy out and putting it back in (though sideways or backwards, sometimes).

Well, after the Dr. was finished, Faith was ready to continue her nap. She cuddled with her "taggie" that her Great Aunt Bernice made for her and went to sleep on the table, not realizing the shots that were in store for her!

The shots weren't that bad, I guess. She had one in each leg, and she cried that amazingly pitiful silent cry where she briefly doesn't breathe. I blew in her face to make her breathe, then picked her up, plugged her up, and she was snoring snugly in my arms within the minute. She slept all the way back home and for the remainder of the day for the most part. This morning, she was still doing well, no fever. Sweet Little Girl! I miss her already!