oh how times moves on...

things are progressing so rapidly. out little monkey is more than four months old now. it's wild how fast that happened. it's even more wild how much she has changed. she started as a little blob that just ate and cried. now she holds herself up, lifts her head to the point where i can see she has a neck (!!!), laughs, talks back, holds her own bottle, and practically changes her own diaper. okay, well that was a fib. but you get the drift.

on Wednesday night she sat up by herself for the first time. SHOCKING since she has shown zero interest in rolling over at all. seriously, i have seen other babies her age rolling in ciricles. she just lays there happy as a clam (a rectangle shaped clam). but she sat up by herself on Wednesday - and for a good amount of time to boot. then today i get a cell phone pic from Gen where she is standing and holding onto her bookshelf (see below). i am shocked and awed. maybe she will just go right to walking and skip that menacing rolling stage. maybe she will go her entire life without ever having an inkling to roll. who knows. what i do know is that this baby is a giant 16.5lb monster at 4mo and i love love love every roll of her!