Sorry again for the very long delay in posting - I just never seem to get a spare minute lately, especially since Brody has completely decided that he is just too old for naps. We've given up trying to make him take them and now we just try for an earlier bedtime.
As far as Lila goes, she continues to do really well. We had our 3rd follow-up with the surgeon today and he was very pleased with her progress. She weighs about 12 pounds, 13 ounces and is now hovering between the 7th and 10th percentile curves. We did schedule Lila's surgery for her umbilical hernia repair today. She will be having that surgery on December 2nd and hopefully that will be the last issue we have to deal with around her stomach. Lila started rolling over from her back to her stomach this past weekend, smiles a lot and is pretty pleasant the majority of the time, except when Brody tries to "take care of her" (e.g. brushing her "teeth" while I was out of the room for 1 minute the other day - he insisted that she needed her teeth cleaned no matter how many times I told him she did not have any). We introduced cereals, bananas, applesauce, and a few other babyfoods and Lila has tolerated them really well and seems to like eating which is such a relief. She literally yells at me while she is waiting for me to get her food ready. Sleeping is improving too and she has moved from the bassinet in our room into her crib as of 2 nights ago. Lila still wakes up 1 or 2 times per night to eat, but I don't mind at all. We continue to be amazed at how well Lila faired through everything she went through and are anxious to have her hernia repaired so all the surgeries are behind us.
I have heard some complaints about not posting pictures of the halloween costumes, so here they are as well as a bunch more from the past 2 months.
4 month picture:
Lila's first cereal:
Riding the tractor with daddy:
And this is what happened when I made him keep it up because he couldn't see:
Our little Chiquita banana:
