Four months!

Little Scarlett is four months old today!  As I type this I can hear her protesting her nap..... and now it's quiet.... a couple peeps... still fighting it... louder again... It's always a tough call - do I leave her in there?  Do I pick her up?  I'm started to get the hang of it, starting to recognize the sounds.  And I'm trusting myself more.  Yes, she is tired and she needs to go to sleep.  Or, no, it sounds like she isn't tired after all.  But now.... quiet.  She's asleep.  

I will never get tired of strangers telling me how cute Scarlett is.  A lot of people comment on how blue her eyes are.  The other day a woman in Trader Joe's saw that her hands were clasped together and said that she looked like the baby Jesus.  I'm not kidding.  Apparently little baby Jesus prayed a lot?  But the comment I get most often is about my sling.  People think it's the coolest thing and ask me where I got it (for the record, it's a New Native sling and I got it at Whole Foods).  The same thing happens when Brandon wears Scarlett in his sling.  I guess it's just not that common, but I can't imagine what I'd do without it.  Scarlett does best when she's in motion so the sling tends to lull her to sleep.  And it frees up my arms so I can get things done.  The downside is that Scarlett is getting heavier, which makes it more uncomfortable for us to carry her.   I'm crossing my fingers that she grows out of this stage soon so I can start pushing her in a stroller.  She's a sensitive booger, no doubt about it.  Two errands is her limit and when she's tired you know it.  But she is just so unbelievably sweet and adorable and perfect and we apologize for kissing her so much, but it's kind of her own fault for being so dang cute.