Four Months

 Our sweet little girl turned 4 months today!

These days whenever Riley is held, she assumes her position of facing outward and leaning forward. If she is tired you can get away with holding her looking over your shoulder or lying horizontally, but normally she will only tolerate these positions for .75 seconds before she starts fidgeting.

Riley is doing really well eating solid foods! She seems to like rice cereal and bananas, but she is not so keen on the applesauce.

 She has always liked to have her diaper changed, but now as soon as her pants, socks and/or diaper go off, the legs go up and she begins to enthusiastically play with her feet.

 She started bath time with dad! I have never seen her so cautious about something! In the beginning, she mostly just observed the water dripping from the faucet and looked around a whole lot. Now she is beginning to kick more and want to play with her toys.

 She is getting to the stage where SHE wants to hold her bottle, and no one else! ...even though she can't exactly hold it straight.

When she gets tired these days, there are many times that she will just fall asleep in your arms if you are talking, or lie on your shoulder as you walk around. This picture below is from when we went to Mimi's work to show her off, and she was so tired that she was staring at me like this for a couple minutes straight!

She has advanced leaps and bounds when it comes to holding up her head and tolerating tummy time. She is getting good at grabbing things rather than just swatting at them, and she is trying to figure out scooting when her toys are out of reach. Her scooting results in a lot of aggravated wriggling and face plants, so hopefully she will figure out her arms soon, for her face's sake...