4-month checkup

Today Aurora is FOUR MONTHS OLD!

As seems fitting, she had her 4-month checkup this afternoon, complete with four vaccines. She now measures 62 cm (49 at birth) and weighs 6 kilos (2.8 at birth). The nurse said everything looked great, except that she needs to sleep on her side for a while -- otherwise the flattish place on the back of her head will just get worse!

She seems to love it when we sing to her. Unfortunately, I don't remember the words to nearly anything.
Some I've considered (or hummed or invented words to) in the past few days include:

"Yellow Submarine"
"Yesterday"
"Edelweiss"
"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" (Paul Simon)
"Some Days Are Better Than Others" (U2)

How about some suggestions? What song would you sing to her? What songs have your babies/nieces/nephews/brothers/sisters etc especially liked?

Daycare & First Sniffles

Tomorrow Aurora will be 4 months old. She's come a long way, even sleeping 12 hours at a time some nights. (These are very good days, indeed). Last week she started at daycare in the mornings, so that *I* could adapt to our being apart -- I began work again yesterday!

Last week I took her a couple of hours a day, Monday through Thursday...and Thursday afternoon she showed some clear signs of a cold. Her usual sound effects were snuffled by congestion.

She still has the cold, it's gotten worse although there's no fever. Last night our little sleep machine woke up 5 times -- a true sign that she's uncomfortable. For the past month or so she's been showing her López-Olivier colors and sleeping all night. She's smiley when we go to get her in her crib in the morning.

More on her day-to-day: Aurora drinks baby herbal tea! It seems to settle her stomach and has some sugar in it, so she drinks it happily.

And here's one last photo, a classic Aurora sleep pose:

Hopefully we'll all get some sleep tonight.

Sunday Afternoon Excursion

Look who's enjoying the Baby Bjorn with Daddy!