Dada

Sophia has been making some big steps this week. Her first exciting accomplishment was when she started saying "dada." She does not correlate it with Jared yet, but it is really fun to hear.

She has also been enjoying some finger foods now and loves chewing on her teething cookies and apple puffs. She got to order her first meal last night at a restaurant! Papa brought us all to IHOP and she got some mashed potatoes and applesauce! It is so fun to watch her grow and enjoy new flavors.

The last bit of big news for this week is that Sophia is back in her "own room" again in her crib! When we moved in with Gary, we put the crib in our room, and she would NOT sleep in it. So she ended up in the bed with us again until last week. We cleared out the game room, and made it a small nursery. She has a heater to keep her warm, a CD player crooning lullabies in the darkness, and her comfy crib. I was really worried about how the transition would go, since she was moving to her crib, and another room all at once, but she has been an angel. The first two nights were hard, and I was up about 12 times. The third night, however, she made a huge improvement, and only woke up 3 times! Every night since then she wakes up twice and easily falls back to sleep. She is to the point now that I can lay her down while she is still awake, but very sleepy, and she will fall asleep on her own! This may sound like a late accomplishment since she is almost seven months old, but anyone who's had trouble transitioning a co-sleeping child knows how exciting this is for us!