Rowan - 5 months

Weight: 14 pounds (20%)

Height: 25.5 inches (60%)

Sleep: Oh man - she has definitely lost her best sleeper crown. She started around 3.5 months waking up early - then she started adding in a 2am wake up, then adding a midnight wake up. I would make her cry for 20 minutes before going in. She is AWAKE. She will stay awake for a full 1.5 to 2 hours. It is worse than she ever was as a newborn. I am not sure how much longer we can survive this. But shes so sweet and cute and smiley when you go in there that you just can't be annoyed with her.

Eating: Rowan is taking a bottle! Actually, she much prefers the bottle. I left for a baby shower in Greenville and Dan had to keep her and she took some milk from a bottle but not much. Enough to not be hungry. Then, after starting daycare, she's rocked the bottle and wanted one a night too. Knew daycare would figure it out. 

Milestones: She uses her foot to kick things on the toy bar on her bouncer - and idk if thats an actual milestone - but its my favorite because she so proud of herself. She started school this month! And she found her feet and loves to hold onto them and put them in her mouth - and nothing is cuter than this baby!

Clothes / Diapers: In size 2/3 diapers and 3-6 month clothes. 

Best moment of the month: Probably taking her to the beach. She loved the waves on her toes and even though she couldn't enjoy much of the sun, I love the beach so much and really enjoyed showing it to her. I also got quite a few snuggles with a sleepy baby on the beach.

Favorites: This baby seems more high maintenance than the others. I guess maybe because everything is ruined by the 4th that she gets some new stuff. She got some of those weighted sleep sacks so she's all fancy with her new hip sacks. She has a dock-a-tot to nap in. Emma had a DAT but she didn't sleep anywhere so we didn't need an expensive container for her. AND Rowan got a slumberpod tent that goes over a pack and play to make it pitch black. She was so fancy at the beach in her DAT and slumberpod. 

Four months - all 4 girls

Rowan - 4 months

Weight: 12lbs 9 ounces (15%)

Length: 24.5 inches (60%)

Sleep: Rowan has been sleeping through the night this entire month. It has been amazing! Two weeks ago she started waking around 4 a couple nights a week. I secretly loved it because I would pull her in bed with us and snuggle until the other kids were up. But I'm worried its becoming more and more often. 

Eating: Still not taking a bottle and eating 6 times a day.

Milestones: She is starting to use both hands to grab things. It seems like it happened over night - she is now a real baby trying to take things and put them in her mouth. She also has great head control and can use her sit me up seat some. She laughs out loud and we just love that. She also squeals when her sisters are running around and being loud. 

Clothes/Diapers: Size 2 diapers and probably should be in 3-6 month clothes but I haven't gotten those out, so she's still in 0-3 and it's fine. 

Best Moment of the Month: Definitely the first time she squealed when her sisters started to run around. I remember this with Sloan and how she wanted so bad to be part of the excitement of the big kids. And now she is part of that and has her own little sister wanting to be part of the fun. Crazy how fast it goes.

Favorites: Rowan naps in the dockatot - not because she naps better in it, but because we can pick it up to rock her, then lay her in the crib with no "transfer" - ie not waking her up by holding her and then trying to get our arms out from under her. Its a simple act of setting the pillow down. Its comical actually - sitting on the yoga ball, bouncing her, in the dockatot for a transfer. But the other girls napped in a swing at this point, so this can't be any worse. We also have her in a weighted nested bean swaddle - no idea if that matters, but I can't find our old swaddles and it is super cute. This time around we splurged on a baby bjorn bouncy seat and it is amazing for this age. Rowan gets annoyed in the newborn bouncy seats. This one sits up higher and she can be part of the action. If she kicks, it bounces her. She seems to really like it. It also folds flat which is perfect for travel. AND we splurged on a slumberpod so we could share a room with Rowan and Dan could read with his book light without waking her. It keeps it dark in her little tent while we have the lights on. 

Three months - all 4 girls

Rowan - 3 months

Weight: 11 pounds 13 ounces (25%)

Height: 24 inches (70%)

Sleep: Still sleeping great. She just started doing 10-11 hours at night. We're moving bedtime earlier and we started reflux medicine and that took her bed time routine from taking hours to being pretty quick.

Eating: she eats around 6 times a day. Won't take a bottle, but we'll let daycare figure that out.

Milestones: rolling from belly to back and starting to giggle. She also likes to stand with us holding her. And if you lay her back like a baby she will do this big sit up so she can face out like a big kid. She might end up being our earliest sitter.

Clothes/Diapers: starting to outgrow some of her 0-3 in length, and I think we're going to move her to size 2 diapers. 

Best Moment of the month: Going to the beach! She had her first beach trip. We only went up and back - stayed one night. Rowan did great. It was hot and we kept splashing water on her swim suit to keep her cool. She was so sweet and napped out on the beach. But I'm sure it wasn't her favorite thing to do. The girls had a blast and it was a good practice run before our long beach trip in August. 

Favorites: We have a portable noise maker that can clip to her carseat. It has been perfect for keeping her asleep during errands. Normally one of my kids would yell loudly and wake her up - but this drowns out all the noises and with a blanket over top, she doesn't get distracted by changing light or bright colors. We have been using the large yoga ball to bounce her to sleep. Hold her, sit on the ball and bounce, and she's out. Other than that, Rowan gets held almost all the time, so not too many favorite items. 

Two months - all 4 girls

Rowan - two months

This sweet baby is already two months old! She seems so smart and so much older than a newborn, yet these two months have flown by.

Height: 23.5 inches (90%)

Weight: 10 pounds 3 ounces (20%)

Sleep: this girl is officially sleeping through the night. We start bed time around 8 and she's usually down by 10. It's a process but she sleeps in her crib and usually is left drowsy to fall asleep on her own - although we have to settle her quite a bit. And then she's up for the day around 6. Sometimes there's a 4am wake up in there and I don't mind feeding her at all bc she's already miles ahead of her sisters. I think Emma was 3 the first time she slept this long ;) Honestly her sleeping well has made this so joyful for me. I'm not constantly googling how to get her to sleep and anxious that if we don't get a good nap I'll be up all night. She's been a dream! Only naps in our arms - and this month naps have been getting harder and harder. But she's only little for a little while.

Eating: she eats whenever. Lol. Less of a schedule than the other girls. I try to make sure she gets fed 6-7 times a day bc her weight gain hasn't been what they want.

Milestones: she's really starting to talk. She looks you in the eye to make sure you're paying attention. Very polite. She doesn't like to talk over anyone. And she just works so hard to make these sweet coos and noises. I could listen to her all day. She's really using her hands to reach for things and bring them to her mouth. She seems so old to me. Her head control has been great but we don't do enough tummy time. 

Clothes / diapers: 0-3 months in clothes and size one diapers. She might need to go to a size 2 because she pees so much sometimes it leaks out the diaper on me. Glamorous life I lead.

Best moment of the month: her laughing! We all experienced it at different times. I think Olivia and Dan heard it first. But we all agree that was the best moment!