#3 is coming...

Well - it's on it's way - Alayna's THIRD tooth! As of yesterday I could see little white and I think break-through happened. Her first two teeth were the bottom front teeth. #3 is up on top - not the middle teeth, but the next one back.

It has been really tough to see in at Alayna's teeth lately...she's keeping those lips tight on me...but yesterday I think I tickled her enough for her to let me sneak a peek :) I think I could see at least 2 more that will be coming through soon as well. Poor girl! Ouch!

THANKFULLY - she has been having much better nights with these teeth than her first two (knock on wood). We try to stay up on her Tylenol and Oragel. She's been sucking on a nuk a lot more as well. She may actually be preferring that over her thumb now. Not sure if that is good or not - but - whatever - she is 8 months old and it seems to be helping her a lot with her teeth.

Speaking of sleeping. I don't want to jinx things, but she has been doing much better over the last week & a half. I added the afternoon nursing back in, but decided I would no longer nurse her in the middle of the night. It seemed she was "smart" and "saving up" to eat when I would nurse her and only taking bare minimums from the bottles offered to her. She has started going to bed b/w 7 and 8 and sleeping until b/w 5 and 6. If she does wake up at night and won't go back to sleep we offer her water - but that's it. Yay Alayna!

What else is new here? Well - today is Grant's last day of being 1. It's going way to fast little buddy! We LOVE YOU!