new cute pictures

I finally decided to get the pictures off my phone. What a silly baby we have!
You can never start too early!
"I love pickles!"
Snuggling with Gus (before he was scary) in my cute outfit from Aunt Christy.
Daddy is fun to chew on.
Trying not to smile, so cute!

lack of sleep

I am sure a lot of people know what it's like to have a baby who doesn't sleep. But this is ridiculous! Grace used to be a great sleeper, and now for at least the last month she's been consistently waking up at 4 every night. Occasionally she'll give me a night where she won't wake up, getting my hopes up. But then, the next night we're up 3 times. I am wondering if it's partly because she's habituated herself to do this, or if it's just because those darn teeth refuse to come out. Maybe a little of both. I guess I just figured she would get better with age. See, for a 2-4 month old baby, she was considered a good sleeper because she only woke up once at night. Though, let me mention that she also started going to bed at 4. I guess I shouldn't complain. There are some people who have kids who just don't sleep at all. We had a week or two like that where she'd get up at 9am and stay awake until 4. What a grouch! Yes, she sleeps until 9, in that regard I am lucky. I am sure this will stop one day. I tried a sleeping schedule but that was just too stressful to try to maintain. So we let her sleep when she wants, and it seems to be ok. I don't know how people can put their kids to bed at 7 knowing that they will wake up at 4, at least that's how Grace is. Well, sort of. She usually wakes up at 2 if we put her to bed before 10. Though, lately she's decided she wants to stay up until 12. Nonetheless, I would much rather 12 than 4 (or 7 am in severe cases). For the most part she seems happy and well rested when she wakes up, so why don't I? I guess it's because she doesn't usually hear daddy get up.

Does this link work?

I have been having a hard time finding a site that will let me upload an mp3 for free, and have it still be there when I want to listen to it.

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Not crawling. . .

But she is working on it. Despite that fact, she gets around pretty well. Here are some fun pictures we took today. These are progressive pictures, I did not move anything but myself. Ok, I did move her when she got stuck in the shoes, but that was it.