Elisabeth is officially 4 months old and continues to live up to her Chunka Munka moniker. Here were her stats from her well check-up:Weight: 95th Percentile
Height: 45th Percentile
Head Cir.: 25th Percentile
Bath time has proven to be more challenging to us. As she has so many rolls to clean, we are never quite sure if we got in between them all. (Not to mention the fact Elisabeth likes to chew on the side of her bathtub and splash water everywhere!)
She is officially sleeping in her own crib in her own room and we are attempting to train her to fall asleep on her own. We are on our way to her sleeping through the night. (A hopeful cross of fingers included with that statement.)
She also reached two important milestones these last few weeks. First, she learned how to roll over from her back to her stomach. She doesn't know how to roll over again to her back but I am sure that will come soon enough. Second, she decided to notice the puppy and vice versa. As soon as she sees her furry friend, she erupts into smiles. Likewise, Sofi has discovered that our baby produces some interesting smells and needs to be greeted with a customary lick when we return home from an outing.We still have not picked an official nickname for her, although it appears that "Ellie" won out on our little blog poll. Try as we might to call her by another name, Elisabeth just seems to fit the best. Actually, the closest we have come to a nickname is "Emily Elisabeth." Our friend's four year old daughter, Laura Kate, started referring to our girl as "Emily Elisabeth." I guess LK just assumed all little girls need two first names. . . either that or our little girl resembles Clifford the Big Red Dog's owner. So, because we think it is too cute, we have not corrected Laura Kate and have resorted to call our baby Emily Elisabeth around her. Emily Elisabeth seems to fit as well. Maybe we are on to something. ;-)
As the mother of Laura Kate. ..the name Emily Elisabeth has stuck at our house!!!! Both that name and "Queen Elisabeth"- which is often my name of choice when her true "I am the Queen" spirit shines through!!! We love that baby.
ReplyDeleteThose percentages are even more indicative of the relative roly-polyness of the rest of Elisabeth, since the head (hers is below average)is still a huge part of the body weight at that age.
ReplyDeleteWait a sec...did I just call your little girl fat? If so, I meant it strictly in the "cute chubby baby" way.
ReplyDeleteFYI: the term in Finnish--if you are interested--is "Pallero" for a chunky baby.
I love the roly poly babies. I have a cousin whose baby was like that too, but when he was 2 years old he was super skinny. Go figure... I was named after my great-great grandmother Elisabeth. Her nickname was Lisa, and so it was chosen as my middle name.
ReplyDeleteI was disgusted once (or twice) with finding a hiding roll or shall I say a roll with in a roll that literally was pink and gunky and smelly. bad mommy momment
ReplyDeleteElisabeth is so adorable! Maybe a coincidence, but my older sister's name is Elisabeth and she was also rolly-polly. So so cute. And that is so great she is almost sleeping through the night and rolling over! I keep telling myself those days will come...
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