We Celebrate...With Cereal?

Tilley turned 4 months on Sunday and we celebrated with Oatmeal baby cereal.  Sounds absolutely appetizing, I know!

These next two videos are of Tilley eating...feel free to ignore that Matt nor I have quite figured out focusing when using the video on my camera...

 So what is Tilley like at 4 months:

*Happy, happy, happy...as long as she isn't tired and then its another story!
*Smiles a lot and with her whole heart.  It melts me every time.
*Coos/talks all the time
*Loves her big sister...she smiles the biggest for Randal Jean
*Has begun to sit well in the bumbo seat and in the highchair
*Still not a fan of car rides.  She actually doesn't mind the car seat that much just riding in the car.

Also, Tilley is one of the smallest 4 month olds in town weighing in at only 10 lbs.  She was 9 lbs at her 2 month appt so needless to say we have been struggling with her weight gain.

For comparison...Matt was this size when he was born and for those who follow pop culture Jessica Simpson gave birth to a daughter just under 10 lbs not too long ago but I guess that's what happens when you have a 3 year gestation period (anybody else feel like she was pregant for.ev.er?)

So for the past 2 months we have been in and out of the doctors office getting different theories on what will cause her to gain weight.  Those theories included:

*Pumping each time after I nursed her to increase supply (this was extremely trying with a toddler to balance as well)...she actually lost weight doing this
*Increasing her feedings to every 3 hours even at night...her weight didn't budge when we did this
*Supplementing with soy formula...didn't work has decided that bottles aren't her thing.
*Feeding every 2 hours....this was the winner and she actually gained .5 lbs when I started doing this.

Needless to say feeding a 4 month old at the same rate you would feed at newborn is exhausting and also means I haven't slept through the night in 4 months.  I am hoping that with the addition of solids and the continuation of feeding her every 2 hours (every 4 hours at night) we will get a good weight check at her official 4 month appoint in a couple weeks.  Then maybe just maybe I will be able to sleep...