Lucy is 4 months!

Oh, I love this child!  Each day, week, and month gets sweeter and sweeter with Tallulah Elizabeth Rouse!  You are such a gift, the greatest gift I have ever received other than the grace Jesus daily gives me.  This month has been my FAVORITE!  

Oh the new things you have done: 

-You role over from your back to your belly like a pro!

-You laugh and smile and talk (especially after you eat)

-Speaking of eating, you are no longer having your late night meal.  So, you are just eating 5 time a day, about 25 ounces a day!  Which means now you are sleeping 10-11 hours at night!

-People in public now comment on how healthy and chunky you look!

-You LOVE your toes!  I love your double heal stretches that you do on the reg.

-You are a drooooollllling queen!  Those teeth will be here soon!

Things you love:

-Your Paci!

-Your Swaddle!

-Your swing!

-Your sling carrier!

-Having a bow in your dark curly hair!

-You love being held by your daddy!

-Any attention people give you

-You love your hands, hence why you still sleep in your swaddle at night because your hands keep you awake!

Things you hate:

-loosing your paci

-making wet diapers

-not being able to fall asleep, you fight it SO hard! 

-an hour after each bottle you have a mini melt down because you realize how tired you are!

-being stuck on your belly and not being able to role back over.

New places you have been this month:

-You have celebrated your moms birthday!

-You went to your first NCSU game.

-Freshmen Young Life trip at the Refuge

-Ocean Isle Beach

-Coffee Shop in Kinston (mama loves this place!)

-Mama and Daddy left you for the first extended amount of time (the longest 8 hours of my life!) to go to a wedding in Wilmington!

-You met daddy's best friend David Hook

 Here she is modeling one of her mama's outfits from when she was a little girl!

 Oh I wish these pictures had volume so you could here this laugh!  It is the sweetest noise to my ears

 Her big brother Reynolds still loves her and followers her around wherever she goes, truly precious!

 "Love God and follow Him.  Really, nothing else matters.  If you are ever unsure what to do, remember how Jesus loved people.  He was the best at it.  You can trust Him because anywhere he asks you to go, He has been there too.  This is not an easy path, Lovies.  Jesus went to hard places and did hard things; He loved folks everyone else hated or despised.  But if you trust us at all, believe me: this is the life you want, this Jesus life." -Jen Haymaker

 "So these are my dreams for you:

Be kind.

Be you.

Love Jesus."

-Jen Hatmaker