Declarations of a King: Lyra Rose 4 Months

(Things have changed since wrote this, which makes sense since she's almost 5 months. Tear. Our life is crazy from now until January 15th so who knows if I will get the chance to document much. We will be in Toledo for four days in November, zero in December).

Slow down! Slow down! Puhleease slow down and give me more time to savor this little girl. I feel like time goes even faster with her than it did with Row because I already know a little of what to expect this time around.

Lyra is such a good-natured, tender little babe. I adore her, nay worship her. She's better than I deserve.

She is tearing her milk suppliers up lately though. Ly gets so distracted and excited by everything. She'll latch then turn her head to look at the world. Ouccchie. It's not my fav thing, but I'll take it if I get to cuddle her multiple times a day and not pay for formula.

Trying to eat my salad

So much love

A lil pumpkin

She can roll all across the room to get to a toy. Her favorite thing of all time is to watch Rowan. She laughs hysterically at him when he interacts with her. Row likes to lay on top of her and is still learning to be gentle, but you wouldn't know he ever hurts her because she loves him so much! She rarely cries still. She "sings" herself to sleep when she's extra tired. Lyra doesn't really nap very long unless we are in the car. We've been traveling a lot lately and she will essentially sleep anytime the car is moving. She has started the four-month regression which means no more 12 hour sleep stretches. I'm not complaining because it is nowhere near to as awful as Rowan was for...25 months. She typically goes down around 8:30pm and wakes up once around 3:00/4:00am to eat then will wake up about every hour from then on.

Her cousin Macy showing her toddler love. She told me her cheeks were really fat

On It's a Small World in her Cinerella onsie from Aunt Kari

She loves this guy as much as I do

Her cousin Violet and her are only two days apart! It's so fun and I'm sure it will be a blast for her as she gets older

Beach Babe

This might be my favorite stage of all babytime. She's cuddly, smiley, and doesn't try to run away or choke on things. She never tells me no and seems to love spending any spare moment cooing up at me.

We had an adorable Snow White onsie my friend sewed that we took to Disneyworld. She was the sweetest princess

Lyra tried rice cereal annnd didn't love it. She does love her Papa and Mimi though who have graciously allowed us to crash their pad for the past 6 weeks.

I love these two blessings. It is such a joy to see all their similarities and differences and learn about the incredible little people they are.

She LOVES dolls! Who knew gender differences show up this young. We only have one tiny baby doll that Row loved to call Little Sister before she came and I hadn't thought to let her play with it yet. An adorable toddler at a church event let Lyra borrow one and it was so tender. She cooed at it and caressed it's little head.