Great news!!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share some good news with you all. For the past 2 nights, Gabriela has been sleeping through the entire night. With a little whimper here and there, she goes right back out. We've been working hard the past week trying to get her to fall asleep on her own. It's been painful for us since we don't like to hear her cry. We didn't do the "cry it out" cold turkey method because we could only handle letting her cry for 10 minutes at a time, but we didn't pick her up. For about 4 nights, Jeff and I would rub her back and sing to her whenever she woke up crying and couldn't get back to sleep. Let me tell you, it usually took 30 minutes of rubbing her back and singing nursery rhymes. Jeff sang "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" about a million times. We can't complain though because it works!! I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep a whole stretch of time.

Two days ago I noticed her two bottom, front teeth were popping through. The left one is completely through the gum line but the right one is still just below the gum line; though you can see it. She's still gnawing on everything, but it'll be cute to see her with her two bottom teeth soon! She's liking her rice cereal more and more and her favorite foods are sweet potatoes and butternut squash. She doesn't mind carrots, but absolutely does not like green beans, apples and pears.

Gabriela also has a new trick. She's sitting up and she loves grabbing her toes. We think she can finally reach her toes because she's gotten a little (not much) leaner. She loves to "talk" more and more and we wouldn't be surprised if she's an every talker! We gave her her first hair cut this past week as well. She's also rolling like crazy. To put it simple, she's ALWAYS moving, even when I feed her, she's still moving her legs. We're going to have our hands full when she gets moving.

Kisses to you all!