Selah - 3 & 4 months

Wow, Selah is 4 months old already (as of yesterday)! That flew by so quickly that I totally forgot to do her 3 month update!

Her 4 month checkup isn't until tomorrow so I don't know her weight and length yet, but I'm pretty sure she's doubled her birth weight by now (which was almost 9 lbs). Check my instagram tomorrow if you want to know how much she weighs now! @mama.meik.and.minis

Selah's doing so much now. She rolls from belly to back, grabs toys and puts them in her mouth, blows raspberries allll the time...

She loves to look at the light of the tv or the light of my phone screen. She likes laying on her back on her play mat, looking at herself in the mirror like a true girly girl. She even sits up for a couple minutes if she uses her hands for support!

She's becoming so fun... like she's turning into a little kid instead of just a baby. She's so alert and attentive to everything going on. She sometimes gets upset when I walk out of the room and as soon as she sees me or hears me come in, she's all smiles.

Lately, when you lay her in her crib she puts herself to sleep. Occasionally she will knock her pacifier out with her hand and whine but as soon as I put it back in, she's out like a light. She holds her hand over her eyes usually. Adorbs.

I'm really wondering if she's going to get teeth pretty soon because she drools way more than Ezra ever did and she's constantly chewing on things, not just sucking on them. Her poor double chin has to be wiped under every single hour because so much drool gets trapped under there!

We sure love our little Lala. She fits right into our family and is such a joy, greeting you with a smile as soon as you talk to her. Happy 1/3 of a year, baby girl! 

a lesson among dirty dishes.

Yesterday, I did quite a bit of baking. I was attempting to do two things: make foods for Ezra that have hidden vegetables in them since he's picky with textures and won't really eat them on their own, and also make some dairy-free breakfast foods for him since we suspect he has a dairy allergy/intolerance and we're trying to cut it out completely. But that's a whole other post for a different day.

Anyway, I was trying to wash the dishes quickly so I could be done before the kids woke up from their naps. I was trying to clean the batter off of a glass measuring cup. Every time I ran the cloth around the outside of the cup, one spot of batter would just not come off. I kept wiping back and forth, up and down and this batter wouldn't budge. I rinsed the outside of the cup and tried again. It wouldn't come off. Finally, it dawned on me - the batter was on the inside of the cup and I had been trying to wipe it off from the outside. Instantly the Lord spoke to me: if I have a problem with someone that bothers me, instead of trying to fix this outside issue, maybe I need to look on the inside and see why this thing bothers me - I need to fix my own heart first, not others' actions. Matthew 7:3 came to mind: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" Instead of trying so hard to fix something on the outside of the cup, I needed to realize that the actual problem was on the inside of the cup. As soon as I washed the inside of the cup, the glass sparkled and was clean as new.

It's a pretty silly analogy but it's just proof that God uses every day situations to speak to His children. If I hadn't been paying attention, I may have missed this little lesson that God placed in my heart.

How has God spoken to you lately?