Week 16-August 4th-August 10th-FOUR MONTHS! It is absolutely unbelievable how time flies. Papa and I went to a wedding this past Saturday with you in tow, and we saw a two month old and a six week old baby. I remember you were teeny tiny, but now I cannot picture it, especially when I saw you next to these little ones. You are long, lean and completely filled out, super alert with tons of expressions to convey your thoughts and feelings. You slept through most of the reception, we were shocked. You usually don't sleep through commotion well at all. We have a friend, Patrick, whose wife is about four months pregnant. Patrick could not stop looking at you. He just wanted to play but you were asleep. He held your hand and told us how beautiful you are! He cannot wait for his own little one to arrive!

Do you remember when I wrote that you were feeling ill when we went to Capistrano Beach? Every time someone picked you up, you cried. I thought that maybe your ribcage hurt from us lifting you so much. Papa thought that your shoulders may have popped out of their sockets. We couldn't figure out what was going on. Turns out that it was your neck that was bothering you. Last Thursday I noticed that the right side of your face was a little rounder than the left side, but thought nothing of it. Friday morning we woke up and your lymph node on the right side of your neck was huge! Completely swollen. We rushed you to the doctor where he promptly weighed you, 12.6 pounds, and he ordered some blood tests so we had to take you to the lab and the lady there felt for a vein in your arms, just like an adult gets blood taken. You cried, but were very brave and then we went home. Turns out you have an infection. Nobody knows how you got it, but it is bacterial (we didn't find this out until Monday) and Papa and I are pumping you full of antibiotics. We thought you were going to have to be hospitalized and have the node surgically drained, but we went to an ear, nose and throat specialist and he gave us about a weeks more time to see if the swelling will go down on its own. We were scared it was going to be something much worse, but we were told that this isn't serious and not to worry.

Papa and I are having some problems, so we went to go talk to someone about them, but we couldn't take you because it was your bedtime, so Grandma Mondi came to stay with you. This was the first time we left you. Of course, you woke up as soon as we left, but you were asleep when we came home tonight. I used Aunt Yael's pump to express some milk for you. I prepared a bottle, but had heard stories about babies going on hunger strikes because they didn't like the bottle. I was fully expecting to hear that you cried and fussed the entire time we were gone (about an hour and a half). You took the bottle. First time, no problem! No whining, no crying. So much for my concerns. So this means, papa and I are going out on a date for our first anniversary, and you get to hang with Grandma Mondi!!! As much as I am opposed to putting artificial anything into you, you have gotten a lot with all of the tummy medicine, pacifier tries and now antibiotics, that a bottle wasn't too tramatic for me, although in my ideal world you would never have one.

You have started to make little grunting noises when you want our attention. It is adorable!

People stop us wherever we might be to tell us how beautiful you are. I am not exaggerating. People stop us all the time to say something. You are special, even total strangers can feel it. I love you little girl and so does your Papa!