Four months old!

Our little Caroline is four months old! Time has flown by. She is getting so big and so sweet. She laughs, giggles, mimics the sounds you make and as of last Saturday she rolls. She had rolled a few times when she was really hungry, like first thing in the morning and I had laid her down in bed. Sometimes before I had time to get in bed myself she to find food had rolled over. Now she rolls over just for fun. She has gone from back to front and is really close going from front to back. I got a new carrier that she rides on my chest (baby bjorn style for people down with the baby lingo) and she loves it. We have gone grocery shopping, to the mall and on numerous walks with her just smiling and laughing, plus it is a lot easier to figure out so my mom wears it to go on walks too. She is also getting better at sitting up and can sit up in the boppy for a seconds by herself.

At her four month check up, she was doing great as usual. She is still a little chunker weighing 15 lbs even (80th percentile) and 25 1/4 inches long (80th). She is getting wear it is difficult for me to carry her while she is in the carseat so now I usually take her out and carry her or sling her. She passed all her milestone questions and tests with flying colors. She was a little trooper again for her shots and only cried for about 30 secs. She is an amazing child and we are so blessed to be her parents.

I am in the ICU at OSU this month and loving it as usual. The hours are longer than the first time I did ICU (we get done at 6:45 instead of 5:30) which is kind of a bummer, but we get to go switch off going home early as long as it is not too busy. My attending is a recent graduate of the residency program and was my senior resident last September. She is extremely nice and asks a ton of questions, but in a good, make you think kind of way. Next month I will be at St. Francis doing Med/Peds. I am excited, but also a little nervous. First of all it is a huge hospital, but also I am nervous about being around sick kids. Listening to stories of some of the ER residents I am working with when kids come in really in trouble makes my stomach sick, so I am not too sure how much I want to work with little ones. I took my step two boards on Monday and are glad they are over. It was much more straightforward than step one, but it was much harder to study working all the time and having little "C". It is the same 4-6 week waiting game to see how I did.