Josie is Four Months

Dear Josie,

You turned 4 months old today.

Of the entire family, I think you are handling the chaos the best. Thank God that stranger anxiety hasn’t hit you yet. You happily grin and coo at all the new faces you’ve encountered this month, from old friends of your mommies’, to relatives, to day care providers, to airline personnel and fellow passengers.

The best thing that happened in the last month is that we finalized your legal adoption. You now have two legally recongized parents, forever and irrevokably.

We could not be more thrilled. Unfortunately, by picture taking time, you were a little hungry and tired, so you don’t look all that excited about it.

You’ve become a social delight this month, not just smiling, but laughing and “chatting” with cute conversational babble while sitting up and looking at other people. You haven’t decided to roll over yet, but you like sitting up and being part of the action. We big people inevitibly find this charming, and you could probably get some of your friends and relatives to buy you a pony, just for being so cute and sweet. Even your big brother thinks you are “soooooo cute!”

At the moment, you’ve just begun crying, so I need to end this and go pick you up.

I love you.

That Mommy
The only thing that makes you cranky seems to be the food situation at day care. You are not thrilled by this business of drinking from a bottle, and some days, you reject it almost entirely.