come on, ilene!

We’ve made it to half a year!! Our sweet baby girl is now 6 months old!

Our  little pumpkin continues to grow and flourish, much to our amazement.  I guess we are doing something right!  We just had our 6 month well baby checkup and Zoey now measures 25.5 inches long and 15.5 lbs.  She is 50% percentile in height, weight and head size.  Overall, we are extremely lucky that she’s a really happy and healthy baby.  She continues to bring Jeff and I so much joy. I can’t believe she’s only been in our lives for half a year because I can’t imagine life without her now.

Our biggest accomplishment this past month is that Zoey is now sleep trained!  Hallelujah!!!  She goes down to bed around 7pm and wakes up at 5am-ish in the morning now.  And she sleeps in her own crib. In her own room.  Unswaddled. Miracle.  Gone are the nights where I’ve had to sleep an arms length from her and wake up 15 times (not joking) to soothe/swaddle/feed/rock her back to sleep.  Sleep training was no small feat.  I’m doing the happy dance because I still can’t believe we did it!  Having her sleep through the night has been life-changing.  I can now get more than a 2 hr chunk of sleep and I’m starting to feel back to my normal self again.  Why didn’t we sleep train her sooner?!

Other milestones this past month:

• Started eating solid foods. Loves: bananas, pears, sweet potato. Hates: rice cereal, avocado
• Can sit up by herself
• Loves sucking on her toes
• Returns smiles
• Laughs and laughs, especially at Daddy
• Drinks water out of a sippy cup, sometimes even out of a regular cup
• Stands and can take a few steps if someone is hold ing her hands
• Now wearing size 6 – 9 month clothes
• Loves being around other kids
• Enjoys storytime at the library
• Endured 15 minutes by herself at the church nursery
• Loves the exersaucer and jumperoo
• Sleeps on her left side with her lovey

Happy 6 months birthday, my little Zosie bear!!! I love you more and more now than ever!!

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