4 months

Kate is now 4 months old. She is so adorable. She is very happy and fun. She rolled from her tummy to her back and now doesn't mind being on her stomach. She will look around while on her tummy before she decides she is done and rolls over. She softly giggles if we work really hard to get her to laugh. She smiles all the time. I posted before how Kate was just a good sleeper, Well then she got a cold and was sick for a while and that threw everything off. She has been sleeping awful for the last 3 weeks. I am exhausted! Since she was better I decided to do some sleep training. It went okay and on night 3 she didn't wake up. Then last night she cried for 2 hours! It was awful. She had her 4 month old check up today. She is 11.2 lbs(3%) 22.75 inches (2%). She dropped from the 20% to the 3rd. This worried me of course. The Dr was concerned but not too worried since Alyssa was small as well. He said we will keep an eye on her weight and see how she is at her next check up at 6 months. She also has mucous behind her Right ear drum, probably from her cold. She has been acting normal minus the sleeping so he didn't want to do antibiotics. I agree. So that is why she hasn't been sleeping well. Now I don't know what to do about her sleep. Anyway I have been thinking about it all day. My Dr. didn't really have an opinion either, he was on the fence. The problem is not feeding her at night, its that even if I do she wakes up an 1 hr or so later and on and on. I am trying to develop healthy sleep habits for her. Since I know the consequences of not doing that (Alyssa!). Anyway we are still working on Alyssa sleeping in her own bed all night. She usually comes in our room at some point in the middle of the night. Most of the time we are so asleep that we don't even know that she climbs in our bed until the morning or when I get up with Kate I see that she is there.
The summer so far has been fun. We love going to the pool, it is too hot to go to the park. I am training for a half marathon and it is so much harder than the last time I did it! I have 2 friends in my ward that are doing it with me so we run together, which is fun. But I am so self conscious about my speed and I hate feeling like I am slowing them down. But since I started training so soon after having Kate, my main goal is to finish and I don't really care about my time.

Russ and Alyssa at the pool