The Boening Bunch: 4 Months

Sawyer Beth is 4 months old!

She was feeling a little bit under the weather following her 4 month shots so we didn't get too many smiles out of her. At four months old she weighed 11 pounds 14 oz (18th%), measured 24.25 inches in length (54th%) and her head is 16 inches (44th%) - its grown 3 inches since she was born!

She is so cooperative with my obsessive picture taking!

She is still wearing size 1 diapers, size 0-3 month and 3 month clothes, but we are getting closer to moving up every day - I can't believe how quickly she is growing.

Sawyer's fourth month was full of firsts! She is a great companion and makes is much easier to maintain our busy lives...she never complains and is easy going as ever.

Her first baseball game...

Her first softball game...

Her first football practice...

Her first track meet...

Her and Cora were such troopers and did a great job cheering on Aunt Brie!

Sawyer met Sophie this month...don't be fooled by the terrified look on her face...she loves her.

She got to hang out with her friends at church...

Caroline, Sawyer, Beckham, Leighton

And she went to her first wedding...

With the Bride - Kristi - might have been a little bit past her bedtime at this point...

Sawyer & the Groom - Aaron

Thanks to both sets of grandparents for helping out with Sawyer, we had a great time at the wedding and spent our first night away from her. We missed her tons, but it also nice to have a night to hang out together with friends.

Sawyer is a great eater, she has started to try to feed herself in the last couple of weeks and will often grab the sides of her bottle of our hands, but is still more than happy to hang out like a little monkey and be fed.

She laughs all the time now - it is the sweetest sound ever!! She thinks "flying" is hysterical

She has figured out that she can roll over onto her side. She likes to snuggle with blankets, dolls, burp cloths or whatever else is near when she wants to go to sleep. She has rolled over onto her belly a couple times on the bed and is super close on the floor. But, once she gets onto her stomach, she gets really mad about it so we have to help her back over.

(I feel like I should clarify that we don't let her sleep with this stuff if we aren't watching.) She grabs for anything and everything within reach, which then goes into her mouth - her play mat is way more fun now!

We are still working on the Lori/Sawyer relationship, but they are warming up to each other. Sawyer now watches Lori when she is running around like a maniac in the back yard and Lori doesn't turn her nose up every time Sawyer is near - baby steps!

The biggest change of all this month is that Sawyer now goes to school. It was REALLY hard on me the first couple of days. I realize that it is never going to be easy to leave her but I love her school and her teachers, so, I am ok with it. I feel very blessed to have a job that I absolutely love and that makes it easier as well. Plus, they send home these sweet reports every day...this was from her first day.