Teeth

We jumped the gun on the 7th tooth post. Viv is pretty cranky about having fingers in her mouth to check tooth progress, so sometimes it's hard to tell what's going on. Anyway, I bought this little fingertip toothbrushy thing-a-ma-jig, and, after pinching her nose to get her to open for a tooth brushing, we find tooth(s) (teeth?) numbers 8 and 9 coming in up top. I guess that explains a bit as to why she's been so cranky lately.

She might also be so cranky because her mom and I have instituted a "no getting in to bed with us between the hours of 9:00 pm and 5:30 am" policy. For a while we were doing the co-sleeping thing, but then thought better of it. Although we really enjoy sleeping with her and it makes Alice lessed stressed about her to have her with us, we worried that Viv was unable to fall asleep on her own. And, Viv's inability to fall asleep on her own became problematic for us too because she would resist the crib and would sometimes refuse to sleep at all until we went to bed at 10 or even later. Plus, it made it so that her Grandma had to hold her the entire duration of both of her daily naps if she was going to take them. So we started putting her in her crib, but then we'd eventually break down during the night and just let her come into bed and nurse so that we could get some sleep. That ended up being a slippery slope, especially because we're so dog-ass tired from trying to get her to sleep in her crib. Lately though, we've finally bitten the bullet and we're just making her tough it out in her crib all night. There's been a lot of howling and even more sleeplessness on everyone's part, but it's the best deal for everyone in the long run. I just hope we live through the next few weeks until she (and Alice) get adjusted to it.