"It's a Washer"

Cason made me laugh SOOO many times today. Once, we were all hanging out in the living room, I was feeding Neely and he and Paige were playing separately with toys. He came over and told me "Mama, wook! Buzz is wooking at your pitcher!" Then he pointed to this cute scene:
Paige has a cross her Great Grama and Grampa got her when she was born, but we recently moved things around on the walls in their room, so it was sitting out waiting for us to hang it in a new spot. Cason grabbed it today and told me "I'm gonna 'tend(pretend) it's a viking pokey(sword or knife, anything sharp can be called a "pokey"). Then he told me "OH! The dragons are mad. The baby dragon is mad. I gonna beat dem." And he fought them for me.
THEN he decided to change shirts because he saw Paige go to get a new dress on. I heard them talking in the room, and all of a sudden he said, in an angry voice, "HEY! I wookin' good. I'm gonna show mama." And show me, he did.
Finally, he heard Paige flush the toilet and he got startled. He goes "Wow, dat was woud." I said "Oh, did it scare you?" He goes "Yeah, I am scared. And I'm scared of wolves. And giant babies. And tigers. And ummmm, Buzz Lipeyeard." Haha.

Paige made me laugh today too. Tyra stopped by and we were hanging out in the front yard watching them dig in the dirt and play. Cason found a rusty old metal thing in the dirt and ran over telling me "Wook mama! I found an "O"." Paige goes "Cason, it's not an 'O', it's a washer!" Haha. Tyra and I laughed, because it totally WAS a washer. She goes "Grampa told me, it's a washer." Haha, she can identify more tools/hardware than I can.

The little girl is 4 months old today.
She's sweeter than ever. I've noticed her being extra social the last week or so, always trying to get our attention with smiles and little giggles. She's easier to make laugh too, and her smiles still come SO easily.
She's playing with toys more.
She hates being forced to lie back, unless she's eating. But if you're trying to hold her that way she uses her little abs to pull up to sitting. And if she's sitting, you have to keep your hand on her belly or she'll pull forward really hard until she almost leans right off of your lap. In fact today I put her on the couch like this:
to take pictures of her in her outfit, but she kept leaning forward, almost falling into a toe touch or something. So I had to slide her down some more, to take the pictures safely. Ha.
She has way more control of her hands, it was almost impossible to use the nasal aspirator on her when she was sick. She'd just instantly swat it away from her nose, and sometimes right out of my hands and across the room. Ha.

She still likes to eat. She weighed 15 lbs 7 ounces at her first appointment a week and a half ago when she first got sick. We'll get her official 4 month weight and length at her checkup Monday.

She started paying attention to Gia recently, and I saw her give her a smile the other day.

She still loves Paige and Cason, and seems to be getting used to them suffocating her with kisses and cuddles. I haven't seen her look annoyed by it in a while. Ha.

She likes to have us hold her hands and pull her from lying down on her back to a sitting position. She's our first to be willing to do that, Paige and Cason liked it but would straighten their legs, so they went straight to standing. Haha. I couldn't find a picture of Paige doing it, and don't think we've taken one of Neely doing her sitting version, but here's Caso in action.
Anyway, back to Neely. She has a great smile, obviously.
She lets us know if she's upset, but I think she's less "particular" as Jess says, about how she's held lately. She'll hang out with us sitting down, a little more. For a while there she hated sitting down with us EVER, and made us walk or at least stand with her. :) I think she might be a little more like Jess than the other two, or at least I haven't seen as much of a temper as the other two showed pretty early on.

Long story short, she's cute. And also awesome.