Josiah Dodge: 6 Months

At 6 months, Josiah weighs 15 1/2 pounds.  He wears 6 & 9 month clothing and is still in size 2 diapers.  

Look at these two cuties!  

Josiah met his cousin, Briggs, earlier this month when we had a Rinn Reunion in Texas!  Briggs is 9 days older than Josiah.

Josiah was sleeping until 4 or 5am each night until late June, and then everything changed!  I blamed it on a "4 month sleep regression" that I read about...but, who knows!?!  (David and I sure didn't!) Since then, Josiah only fell asleep when we walked him.  Then, we would carefully lay him down in the bassinet and tiptoe out and hope he'd stay asleep!  Neither of us were sleeping well at all...two weeks ago, I fell asleep nursing him in the glider in the middle of the night.  When I woke up an hour later, I stood up only to have my ankle buckle underneath me.  Both Josiah and I ended up on the floor!  Thankfully, only I was hurt with a sprained ankle.  I shudder to think of Josiah being hurt worse when we fell.  

Last week Dave said, "That's it! He has to learn to sleep on his own!" I was encouraged by my two friends, Corrie and Summer, who both have baby boys around the same age as Josiah.  We started a new routine, and it has worked perfectly!  The longest he cried was 8 minutes, and that was only on the first night of laying him down to sleep on his own.  Josiah immediately started sleeping  7 hours a night before waking to eat, and he's been taking 3 good naps a day!  I keep telling Dave how thankful I am that he made us do this...we all needed it!  And, how cute is Josiah in his little space suit?  I have no idea if this really helps or not, but I'm going with it since he's sleeping so beautifully now.

A few more pictures of Josiah and his two biggest fans...

I am really enjoying my mornings with Emma and Josiah while Isaac is at kindergarten.  Emma loves to help get diapers and wipes for Josiah.  She really loves to be right in his face and talk to him.  :)

Isaac goes through his to-do list so quickly each morning so that he can spend a little bit of time with Josiah before we take him to kindergarten.  And, he loves reading to him and playing by him in the afternoons.