Just 3 days shy of her 4 month birthday, and today Ruthie rolled over from tummy to back!! The amazing thing is that she hates being on her stomach--she screams and screams whenever you put her down like that. However, this week at her 4 month doctor check-up, the doc said she really needed to try and be on her belly more. She said Ruthie was plenty strong enough to be rolling over, she just needed encouragment to try it. So, yesterday we worked with her a little and then today with a little more work she did it about 3 or 4 times in a row! Hopefully she will remeber how, so she can show Daddy when he gets home tonight ;-)
In addition to the rolling over homework, the doc gave Ruth another round of vaccines and a clean bill of health! At 4 months, she is long and lean: just under 13lbs and a loooong 25.5 inches!! She's so active that she burns fat as fast as her little body can collect it!
In light of this, the doctor did reccomend that in addition to breastfeeding every 2-3 hours, we start giving her sppon-fed rice cereal once a day in order to help her get some more fat on her body-- oh if only we all had that problem! So, last night we started the rice cereal and she did great- very little spitting out. Of course we shouldn't be surprised, since we call her our "little black hole." Anything that comes within an inch of her mouth gets sucked into it: toys, hands, clothes, blankets, daddy's arm, Mini Coopers!
More photos soon!
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Watch out! With all that energy and some encouragement to be on her belly more she'll be crawing all over the place befer you know it!
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