Thumb Sucker

Curly Q has discovered that she loves sucking on her hands. I think it's adorable. I know most of it is just exploration, but its starting to look like we have a thumb sucker on our hands. Curly Q almost exclusively sucks on her thumb (instead of her other fingers). She often does it to help her fall asleep. When I check on her in her crib, she often has her thumb still in her mouth - even when she's asleep. I'm not sure if I should try to break her of this habit, or be grateful that she falls asleep on her own to easily. Hmmm.

Sometimes while she is sucking on her thumb, she uses her other fingers to hold on to her oxygen tubes. 

Praying for Sleep

Little Miss is quite possibly the best big sister ever. She is so sweet and loving and caring towards her baby sister. It's adorable. Every time Little Miss prays, she always prays for Curly Q. Specifically, she prays that Curly Q can sleep through the night. Even when we bless the food at dinner time, she would pray that Curly Q would "sleep good". Morgan and I would always giggle a little about this. Well, God hears and answers little girl's prayers! Curly Q has always been a good sleeper. She's been sleeping 7-8 hours for a couple weeks now. Two nights ago, Curly Q slept for 11 hours! Eleven hours of uninterrupted sleep! Last night, she slept 9 hours! I'm so grateful for my girls! 

This is her 'grumpy, tired' face. 

Sisters

Little Miss when she was around 2 or 3 months old

Curly Q at 4 months old (but closer to 2 months adjusted age)

I have said several times that I thought Curly Q looked like Little Miss. Now that I compare the pictures, I do NOT think that anymore. They have some of the same expressions. But I don't think they look alike at all! They have the same cute little nose! And Little Miss is sooo chubby! Everyone always says Little Miss looks just like Morgan. We're not quite sure about Curly Q. I've had a few people tell me that Curly Q looks like me. What do you think?

Oxygen

Can we PLEASE be done with oxygen?!! Honestly, Curly Q being on oxygen hasn't been a big deal at all. I don't know how to hold my baby without her being attached to cords and tubes. It's just a part of our lives now. However, Curly Q loves moving her nasal cannula out of nose. I feel like it is never in her nose. I mean, never. Hopefully in the next week or two we'll be able to ditch the oxygen officially.

One of these days, we'll see this cute face all the time, instead of those annoying oxygen tubes!

She still is stinking cute, even with those oxygen tubes! I love her smile!

sleeping with one eye open

I'm not sure if you can tell in this picture, but Curly Q has her left eye opened just a crack. This is often how she sleeps. That one eye is always cracked open just a little. I joke about she learned to sleep with one eye open in the NICU. I'm sure she was constantly being 'attacked' by nurses and doctors and specialists. We're so glad she's home with us!

Snow Angel

This morning, Little Miss decided to show Curly Q how to make a snow angel. Curly Q was kicking and wiggling and Little Miss was so proud that she was pretending to make a snow angel, just like she showed her how to! Love those two!

Four Months Old

Our tiny Curly Q is now 4 months old! She looks and acts closer to a 2 month old, but that's okay. She is huge to us. Especially since she is 3 times her birth weight. She is such an easy and happy baby. Her favorite hobbies are eating and sleeping. She is constantly hungry. Lots of days, I am nursing her every two hours. But that is okay because she is in the less than 5% for weight, so she can eat as often as she wants. She is a champ sleeper too. Most of the time, I just lay her in bed, and she falls asleep on her own. She's always had her days and nights straight (thank you NICU nurses!). She usually goes 5-6 hours at night. This week, she decided to sleep through the night and go 8 hours and sleep from 10 pm to 6 am. It was wonderful!

She gives the cutest, biggest smiles. I have a hard time capturing them in pictures, but she's adorable. She loves smiling for her sister more than anyone. Little Miss loves Curly Q and Curly Q loves Little Miss. It's really cute. And Little Miss is such a huge help. I put Curly Q on the floor and she just watches Little Miss play. Little Miss loves to read books to Curly Q. They entertain each other, it is fabulous! We used to have Curly Q camped out in our living room, but this week we moved her into the same room as Little Miss and the transition seems to be going great. Little Miss LOVES having a room mate. And she sleeps through Curly Q crying.

Curly Q has discovered her hands. She loves sucking on them. It's really cute, however she knocks her oxygen nasal cannula out of her nose even more than she used to (if that's possible). I constantly hear cute sucking noises coming from her and I look over to see her hands in her mouth and her cannula up by her forehead. Hopefully we only have a couple more weeks of oxygen. She'll get it tested sometime in the first half of June.

We're not sure what Curly Q's stats are recently. Her 4 month appointment is a little delayed because her immunization schedule got off while she was in the NICU. I know on our home scale, last week, she weighed 10.8 pounds. She's growing at a good healthy rate.

Officially, we are still keeping her away from the crowds. RSV season is officially over, but while she is on oxygen, we are supposed to keep her away from crowds. However, we have been able to introduce her to her grandpas and grandmas.