D is for Diva

Yep, I said it. My daughter is already a diva! Brinley is right about 4 months old now, and she is so fun. She is such a happy baby- but only if she has things her way! She is a diaper snob, a diaper rash cream snob, a formula snob, and a nipple snob. She only uses regular Huggies diapers- the other kinds give her a rash. She only uses Burt's Bees rash cream- it is also the kind I used for Hunter because it works so well. Since I was only able to breast feed her for 5 weeks, she is on formula. And she only drinks milk based formula- goat's milk and soy formula make her constipated. And she only takes a certain kind of bottle nipple- which I had to find on ebay! And no binkies. She's never been a binky fan, and absolutely knows the difference. Oh yes, we are in for trouble with this one! She knows what she likes and that's that! But we sure love her anyway.


Here are some of the things she's doing now:


She loves to sleep in her swing, just like Hunter did. She takes all her naps during the day in her swing, but she sleeps in her own bed all night.


She sleeps pretty well at night. She goes for about 5 hours the first stretch, and then after she has a new bottle, she'll sleep another 5 hours or so till we get up.


She loves to kick her legs. She kicks them down so hard, but she's always so happy when she does. She'll also kick like that when she's really tired in her bed, as she's going to sleep.


She loves loves loves to dance! And she loves to be sung to.


She talks all the time. She'll talk to anyone who'll listen, including checkers at the grocery store!


She can roll over both ways. She rolls back to front mostly. She can roll front to back too, but she doesn't do it very often. She did it once and scared herself so bad she hasn't done it again since! It was pretty cute!


She is SO chubby! Her cheeks are so big, she looks like a chipmunk! And she has rolls on top of rolls on her legs! We weighed her a few weeks ago and she was 14 pounds!


She loves to be outside. Especially if there is a breeze. She gets so happy when the wind is blowing her hair. A lot of times I blow in it, and she smiles so big.


We got her a Bumbo chair a few weeks ago, and she loves to sit in it. I think she'll be starting cereal soon, because she likes to sit with us at the table and have little tastes of everything.


The other day I caught her sucking her thumb. So cute!


She loves the bath! She gets so excited when she hears the water, and she kicks and splashes so much.



Her hair is starting to fill in, but she still has the funniest bald spot in the back!