The 6 month, veggie-loving, ferberized, water baby, Janey pants

Jane is asleep. It's so nice when she is doing that, but honestly, I kind of miss her when she is asleep. I get so excited to get her out of bed!

Jane is almost 6 months old. I can't really believe it. I super like the stage that she is at right now and constantly find my self telling Kinzer that I wish these moments would freeze and we could soak EVERYTHING up before time goes on.

Jane is loving her solids. She is an awesome eater! Must get that from me :) So far she loves all veggies (sometimes sketchy about peas), and after every bite she says, "MMMMMMM". We haven't started fruit yet. But if she loves veggies so much, I think she'll go crazy over fruit.

Jane has been "ferberized". I never knew that there was such a thing as sleep training until I married into the Kaupert fam. One word about Dr. Ferber's sleep training method: AMAZING! She responded so well to it and I haven't slept so well since she was born. She goes to bed at 7:30 PM, wakes up at 4:30 AM to eat, then goes back to bed until 7:30/8:00 AM. When we put her down for a nap she fusses for 10 seconds, then starts talking to her self until she falls asleep. When we put her to bed at night there is no rocking involved and (this is the awesome part) no pacifier. We give her a kiss and an "I love you" then put her down. She rolls to her side and dozes right off. It's so incredible. I loved being able to rock her to sleep and have her stay up with us and I had a little bit of anxiety the first few days because I felt like I wasn't giving her enough attention (because I get an extra 3 hours to myself every night now). But I love even more the fact that she loves her bed, and the fact that I get to hangout with just Kinzer for a good 3 hours before we head to bed. One day we woke up after an amazing night of sleep and the first thing I said was, "I have a testimony of the Ferber method!!!" I really do. If you want to know more about the Ferber method you can get the book from the library (or buy it). There are 2 editions. We actually didn't use the book at all. We read a lot online, and this website explained things well and the writer has a really funny approach to the whole thing.

We took Jane swimming yesterday. She loved it. She loves the water, and couldn't stop splashing. It is going to be such a fun summer with the pool. She loves to be outside and has spent a lot of time outside since she was a born. We take her out every chance we get. Thank you California weather :)

She is growing and learning every day. As much as I love this time we have and I try my hardest to soak it all in, I look forward to seeing the little toddler that Janey will be. I love hearing her sweet squeals and screeches, but I'm excited for her to speak words. When I talk to her she really stares deep into my soul, trying to make sense of it all. I love her.

Here she is with hands clasped. There's a lot more where these came from.

We wanted to take advantage of the beautiful spring blossoms. So we turned it in to a very early Easter shoot.

Solids

Swim baby

Easter was fun. The only picture I have of Jane in her dress is the bottom one of the Kaupert Family. It was such a poofy thing and so hard to hold her in it. Jane loved sucking on the Easter Eggs she received and the little kids in the family LOVE Jane. They can't get enough of her. I can understand that:)

The cheeks!