Five and Six Months!

Gabriella is 5&6 months old!

The two months are combined this time because we’ve had so much sickness going around our family for the last few months.  We’re finally all doing better (and Gabby is actually 7 months now, but I will try to keep these accurate for 5-6 months).

They sure do look alike!

Weight: 14 lbs., 6 oz. at 5 months.  16 lbs. at 6 months!  She lost some weight around 5 months because of being sick.

Length: No length for 5 months.  26” at 6 months!

Head Circumference: Nothing for 5 months. 17” for 6 months.

Diaper Size: She’s wearing size 2 now.  I think we’re going to start doing size 3 overnights soon.

Such a happy girl! <3

Clothing Size: She is wearing 6 months, but I’ll need to pack them up before she hits 7 months.  Lots of her 6 month things are too tight around now that she’s actually 6 months old :)

Nicknames: No changes here - She is called Gabby most often, along with variations.  I call her Gabby Girl a lot.  Pete calls her Gabby Goo.  And Caleb calls her baby or Abby (ah-bee) :)

Her first New Year's Eve/Day!

Health: She has had a lot of sickness the last couple of months :( The whole family got the stomach bug in the beginning of January and Gabby managed to avoid that (yay nursing!).  Shortly after that, she got RSV, which caused an upper respiratory infection and bronchiolitis.  Those were some difficult weeks – Gabby & I never went to church in January and Pete & Caleb only went once.  She was supposed to be dedicated, but we had to cancel because we didn’t want to risk spreading RSV (and Gabby sure didn’t feel like going out anyway).  She lost some weight during that time.  It’s hard to remember the exact timeline – Gabby has had ear infections a couple times in January and February.  Once was one ear and once was both ears.  One of those times was the second dedication date, which was again cancelled.  It’s been an odd start to the year for us!

Her first Valentine's Day!

Sleep: For a while, Gabriella was only getting up once in the night.  But once RSV started, then she started getting up really often.  Her sleep has been totally unpredictable and all over the place since then.  Right before she hit 6 months, she slept completely through the night one time, 12+ hours! But that didn’t become a new pattern :) She’s usually up around 2 times/night.  She’s pretty consistent with 1 morning nap and 1 afternoon nap.  She sometimes tries to sneak in a 3^rd nap close to dinner time, but I try to make her hold out because then she can go to bed around 7-7:30.

Diet: She’s just nursing still.  I think she’ll start solids between 6-7 months.  She’s generally nursing 6 or 7 times a day still, occasionally more or less, but usually around there.

Month 5 Loves: She LOVES her family! She gives all 3 of us great smiles and definitely recognizes us.  It’s fun to see when she’ll recognize a grandparent too!

She likes her exersaucer.  I kept meaning to have Pete get it out.  We finally got it and it really helps when we’re eating dinner and trying to keep her awake and occupied :)

She likes crinkly books.  I try to always keep one in the diaper bag for her now.  She basically scrunches it up and shoves it in her mouth!

Month 5 Dislikes: She still HATES baths.  I’ve been giving her sponge baths so that she doesn’t cry as much.

She doesn’t like being sick.  Her personality seemed so different in January (and some of February, month 6) because she’s just had so much sickness.  It’s sad!

I can't believe how much she's grown!

Month 6 Loves: She loves rolling. She pretty much rolls over as soon as she’s set down now :) No more leaving her alone unless she’s on the floor!

She loves the toy turtle that she got for Christmas from Uncle Dave & Aunt Rachel! We’ve been practicing sitting up and this helps keep her attention while she’s sitting.

She loves tickles! You can always get her to laugh a lot by tickling her neck or legs :)

Month 6 Dislikes: She doesn’t like being alone. If I leave her in the living room while I run to the bathroom or to the kitchen or something, she starts crying and yelling right away!

She does NOT like the NoseFrida!  She screams through us using it on her, just like Caleb used to… But it’s so helpful!

She's so active now!

It's hard to get her to sit still for a picture

Milestones: She seems to be teething, but she hasn’t gotten any teeth yet. 

She’s continued to roll both ways, but it just doesn’t seem like she’s super interested in it.

She’s starting to sit up, but still needs assistance (at 6 months).  She does love practicing sitting up – much more settled than if she’s sitting down.

She also tries to stand, by holding onto our hands.  She isn’t actually pulling herself up yet, but she definitely likes to try to do it with our help!

By 5 months, Gabby was giving kisses! So sweet.  Then around 6 months, she started grabbing my face to pull it in for a kiss :) I love her affection!

Caleb at 4 months and Gabby at 5.5 months :)

Baby Gear Love: We still love the Fisher Price Rock & Play, the Boppy, the SwaddleMe, our swing, and the Tula. We are working towards switching her into her crib, which will eliminate the SwaddleMe and the Rock & Play.

She likes our exersaucer, Bright Starts Springin’ Safari Bounce-A-Round. It’s the same one we had for Caleb.  She also likes the Bumbo because it helps with sitting up!

One last thing that we are loving right now is our NoseFrida!  Like I said above, Gabbydoes not like it at all, but this nasal aspirator works SO much better than those bulbs!

This is how our photo shoots go these days...

Random Thoughts and Mama Update combined: Like I said up above, this has been a really rough couple of months for our family.  Caleb got a stomach bug between Christmas and New Year’s weekend.  Pete and I both got it on New Year’s Eve.  Gabby stayed healthy through that.  Caleb had to stick to a bland diet for several weeks because his stomach would reject “real” food every time he tried it.

After that, I had a very odd thing that was ultimately diagnosed as a spontaneous cerebral spinal fluid leak.  I had clear fluid pouring out of my nose for no obvious reason.  That night I got an awful headache, which continued for several weeks. I haven’t been able to exercise. I haven’t been able to go to church. It’s finally now (around 6-7 weeks after it happened) starting to ease up.  I’ve been able to go to church a couple of times in February.

Gabby had RSV. Both of the kids had multiple ear infections. Pete, Caleb, and I had sinus infections.  All 4 of us were on antibiotics at one point.  It’s just really been an usual season for us and we’re hopefully coming out of it now.

 This was the day after the leak happened.

I had an awful headache this night.

I didn't know at the time that it would continue for several weeks!

I haven’t been able to exercise or anything, so I’m not sure where I’m at with weight.  It’s really frustrating to not be able to do anything right now, but I know it won’t last forever.  My mom has been a huge help with Caleb.  She’s been taking him to the Y every morning and keeping him through lunch so that I can basically just lay on the couch.  Any time I get up and start doing things, I get a horrible headache.  It seems like the leak caused the initial headache, but now my body is having a hard time recovering from that.  A lot of the stories I read said that it can take around 6 weeks to recover from the leak headache.  I’m right around 6 weeks and finally feeling like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It’s certainly not done, but I’ve been able to get off the couch some!

My phrase coming into 2017 was “Choose JOY!” and I’ve had lots of opportunities to practice that already, but they certainly haven’t been what I expected :) I’m looking forward to watching Gabby continue to grow and learn new things… And hopefully I’ll be back to regular life any day now.

Four Months!

Gabriella is 4 months old!

Weight: 13 lbs., 15 oz. This was the 47^th percentile.  This is so weird to me because Gabby looks chunky and because Caleb was so much bigger than this!

Length: 25” This is the 67^th percentile.  She’s just generally smaller than Caleb :) 

Head Circumference: 16.5” I don’t know what percentile this was.

Wow! She looks huge... A lot has changed in three months!

Diaper Size: She’s wearing size 1 still, but she really needs size 2 now.  We’re trying to finish off the 1s that we have.  I think soon we’ll start using 1s during the day and 2s overnight.

Clothing Size: She is wearing 3-6 months and 6 months no problem.

You can see that she filled out some more this month :)

Nicknames: She is called Gabby most often, along with variations.  I call her Gabby Girl a lot.  Pete calls her Gabby Goo.  And Caleb calls her Abby (ah-bee) :)

Health: Her cradle cap is still not looking great.  I’m trying to remember to do baby oil the morning or night before her baths, but it’s still pretty rough.

Caleb on the left and Gabby on the right.

I feel like they look less alike now!

Sleep: Gabriella has had a very hard month with sleep.  Truthfully, it’s not bad compared to how Caleb was or how other infants are.  It’s just been hard compared to how she has been.  She hasn’t been putting herself to sleep.  She’s been getting up twice a night to nurse.  Something like 1-2am and 5-6am.  At least she’s still going back to sleep after she nurses!

Diet: She’s just nursing still.  She’s been more all over the map this month in terms of number of times.  Generally 5-6 times, occasionally 4 or 7 :) 

Loves: She LOVES Caleb! He talks to her, lays on top of her, tries to sit on her, etc. and she just grins in return!

She likes smiles.  If you grin at her with the biggest open mouth, she’ll grin back just the same.

She likes to drool.  She blows spit bubbles all the time! Haha :)

She's doing that wide open mouth grin here!

Dislikes: She HATES baths right now.

She doesn’t like when Caleb bites her.  He likes to bite her hand when we’re not watching.  I have no idea why, but he bites hard enough to leave a mark and she just SCREAMS.

Milestones: She rolls over now! She doesn’t do it a lot, but I probably don’t give her enough tummy time either :/ It’s hard because I don’t have the freedom to just leave her on the floor like I did with Caleb.  Now there’s a monster toddler who will get her!

She has gotten very interactive. She “talks” back, laughs, smiles, etc… It’s a really fun stage!

She still really prefers to be sitting up, if we prop her up.

She grabs onto toys and plays with them some – bringing them to her mouth or playing with them with her other hand.

She consistently goes into Prime Time at the Y now.  She really hasn’t had a problem in there as far as I know.  Caleb used to get fussy and need to be walked, etc. 

Baby Gear Love: I feel like I’m forgetting to get out baby gear for Gabby…  I will start having her play with toys more now that she needs to be practicing rolling or sitting.  She currently likes a little book that has a handle to hold and crinkly pages.  She also likes a cat rattle that her Auntie Court made for her.  She’ll hold it by the tail and shake it back and forth :)

We still love the Fisher Price Rock & Play, the Boppy, the SwaddleMe, our swing, and the Tula! 

I need to get out our Bumbo and Exersaucer for her in the next month too.  I think she’ll want to start using those between 5 & 6 months.  I tried her in a Bumbo once already, but she seemed to not want to hold her head up that much yet.

Christmas Dress #1

Random Thoughts: I feel like Gabby’s look has changed a lot.  We’re also coming to see her personality more as she’s interacting with us.  She will “talk” if she’s not getting attention :) And I notice her laughing a lot as she observes things, even simple things like Caleb running around.  She also sort of pants when she's really excited... It's adorable <3

I think this difficult month has been due to a Mental Leap.  They say that this “stormy time” goes from 14-19 weeks.  So, that should be done around the new year! (It is January now and she seems to be settling back in to a more regular schedule.)

Christmas Dress #2

Mama Update:  When Gabby was exactly 4 months, I was right at the weight I was when she was 3 months.  I’m sure I gained with Christmas parties, etc. and then lost it.  So, 11 pounds to lose.  I’m sure I’ll gain again with Christmas Eve, Christmas day, leftovers, NYE, etc… But I’m planning to do no sweets for January (or at least until my niece’s birthday at the end of the month). 

I have been on medicine for my headaches for 3 weeks now.  I’ve noticed a big difference in severity.  I’m still having daily headaches, but not usually all day and not usually as bad as before.  I’m not being forced to lay down during the kids’ naps.  Instead, I can actually get something done like dishes!

Christmas was officially 2 days after she turned 4 months, 

but we'll count it here anyway :)

Gabriella did great! She slept a lot on Christmas Eve

and observed a lot of chaos on Christmas Day!

Three Months!

Gabriella is 3 months old!

Weight: 12 lbs., 6 oz.  This was just with me weighing at home while holding her.  So, I’m not sure how accurate it was. That puts her at the 39^th percentile according to my app, but the app tends to read a little low – I think she would be closer to 50^th at the doctor’s office with that weight.  I don’t know if that’s accurate or not.  Caleb was definitely bigger by this point.  She’s not as chunky as him :)

Length: I don’t know, cuz we didn’t take her in this month.

Head Circumference: I don’t know again.

She carries her weight in her cheeks ;)

Diaper Size: She’s wearing size 1 still, without a problem.

Clothing Size: She is just outgrowing her 3 month things.  So, mainly 3-6 month clothes right now with a few 3 month things in the mix still.  She’s right on schedule! :)

She doesn't look much different to me here!

Nicknames: She is called Gabby most often, along with variations (Gabby Girl, Gabby Jane, Gabs, etc.).  Caleb calls her Abby and Baby.

Health: Her cradle cap is still not looking great.  I wonder if it’ll continue to be bad during the winter.

You can definitely tell that they're siblings, 

but I think they each have their own look!

Sleep: Gabriella has continued doing a long stretch at night.  She’s really an amazing sleeper!  I still just have to swaddle her, give her the binky, and lay her down awake and she’ll put herself to sleep!  This is so amazing to me :) It’s so different from Caleb!  She usually nurses between 7:30 and 8pm before bed.  Then she’ll sleep until between 4&6 am! She’ll nurse once and go back to sleep until around 8:30am! This is a great schedule.

Diet: She’s just nursing still.  She eats really well. She is pretty settled into a routine of eating 5 times a day still, although occasionally it’ll be 4 times/day.  I’m sure this is part of why she’s not as big as Caleb was!

Loves: She loves tickles!   

She likes it when Caleb talks to her – she smiles so big for him!

She likes music/when people sing.

Apparently she didn't like me making her do these pictures! Ha 

Dislikes: Being alone!  She’ll start making noise in the other room if we’ve left her there to go do something :)

Sudden Noises.  She startles at loud, sudden noises... General noisiness doesn't seem to bother her - just sudden shrieks or things like that.

Other than that, I can’t think of any this month! She’s just so pleasant and really rarely cries…

Milestones: She prefers sitting up.  She can’t do it herself, but she tries to pull herself forward if we lay her down :)

She sucks on her hands a lot!

She is just beautiful!

Baby Gear Love: Nothing has really changed this month…

We still love the Fisher Price Rock & Play, the Boppy, the SwaddleMe, and our swing! 

I love our Tula Baby Carrier! I can wear Gabby in it at the Y or if we go shopping.  It’s really convenient and comfortable.

We went to a Harvest Party on Halloween.

Gabriella was a little cheerleader and Caleb was a football player.

Pete and I were their biggest fans <3

Random Thoughts: I’m excited to enter into the holidays as a family of 4! Lots of fun firsts for Gabby and lots of things that Caleb will actually enjoy this year for the first time :) 

Thanksgiving was the day after Gabriella turned 3 months.

She was so quiet and easy :)

Caleb on the left and Gabby on the right.

This isn't the best comparison because Caleb was only 6 or 7 weeks old.

Mama Update:  I’ve settled around 22 pounds down.  I’ve really been maintaining at 21 pounds lost, but the last few days it’s been 22 :) If I can go into the new year at 21-22 pounds down still, I’ll be thrilled.  That puts me at 11-12 pounds left to lose.  I’ll probably start trying to workout harder and be more careful about what I’m eating at that point.  I’m still having trouble with these daily headaches; I go to the neurologist the week after Thanksgiving and I’m hoping that’ll help!

Our family on Thanksgiving, without Caleb...

Because he was being a 2 year old.

I love her smiles SO MUCH!

She's just a beautiful girl.  I can't get over it!

Two Months!

Gabriella is 2 months old!

Weight: 11 lbs., 12 oz.  That puts her at the 67^th percentile.  Caleb weighed more at this age, but was actually a lower percentile… That must be because boys tend to be bigger?

Length: 22.25” This would mean she hasn’t grown since she was 2.5 weeks old, I’m not sure if that’s accurate :) That puts her at the 40^th percentile.

Head Circumference: 16”

Diaper Size: She’s wearing size 1.  They fit her great!  Caleb was longer than Gabby, so he had outgrown 1s by this age!

Clothing Size: 0-3 months and 3 months.  I’ve had to pack up some of her 0-3 month 1-piece things.  3 month clothes fit her really well right now.

She's looking so much bigger and more alert.

I definitely think she's longer than last month too,

even though it didn't look that way at the doctor!

Nicknames: She is called Gabby most often, along with variations (Gabby Girl, Gabby Jane, Gabs, etc.).  Caleb calls her Abby and Baby.  She sometimes gets Lady Jane or Little Miss, as well :)

Health: Her baby acne is clearing up.  That picked up right around 3 weeks for her and just finally started clearing up.  Her cradle cap is starting to get worse now; Caleb had that pretty bad when he was little too.

Caleb filled out a lot between month 1 & 2!

They look very similar!!

He just had so much more hair than Gabby does... Poor girl

Sleep: Gabriella has continued doing a long stretch at night.  She’s really an amazing sleeper!  She goes right back to sleep after she eats overnight, too.  She sleeps really well in the rock n play or the pack n play.  She gets a little bit fussy when she’s tired.  I swaddle her, give her the binky, and lay her down awake and she’ll put herself to sleep!  This is so amazing to me :)

Diet: She’s just nursing.  She eats really well. She is pretty settled into a routine of eating 5 times a day.  I can’t believe she only eats 5 times a day… It’s all so different from Caleb!

She definitely likes to sleep on her side or belly if she's not swaddled!

I think she'll like it when she's able to roll to those positions herself

Loves: She loves snuggles!   

She likes bath time.  She is happy and calm in the bath.

She likes diaper changes!  I get sweet smiles from her then, just like her brother when he was this age.

She likes music/when people sing.

Dislikes: Just like her brother, she doesn’t like getting out of the bath :)  I’m sure she’s just cold… I hate getting out of the shower, too!

I honestly have so much trouble thinking of things she doesn’t like because she’s usually so calm.

Milestones: She is getting stronger with holding up her head, neck, and shoulders.

She turns toward noises, gives us big smiles, follows things with her eyes.  She’s your typical 2 month old!

She is so responsive!

Baby Gear Love: We still love the Fisher Price Rock & Play, the Boppy, the SwaddleMe, and our swing! 

I love our Tula Baby Carrier! I can wear Gabby in it at the Y or if we go shopping.  It’s really convenient and comfortable.

Tula in action at the circus for Caleb's birthday!

Random Thoughts: A lot of my thoughts are still the same as last month… I’m much more rested this time around, having a good sleeper.  It’s amazing the difference that makes!  And my heart just bursts watching the way Caleb loves on her and the way she puts up with craziness from him :) 

She's just such a pretty girl <3

Mama Update:  I have lost another 3 or so pounds this month.  So I’m something like 20 pounds down, 13 pounds to go.  I’m glad that I’m losing at all because I’m hardly able to go to the Y.  My non-scale victory was that I went down a pants size this month!  Now I'm only 1 size bigger than when I got pregnant with Gabby (which was the smallest I've been as an adult!).  With the holidays (and the millions of sweets that go with them) coming up and with me hardly being able to go to the Y, I’m really hoping to just not gain throughout the rest of the year.  If I lose, that’s like an added bonus!

Since at least the beginning of October (but I think it actually started during the last week of September), I’ve had daily headaches again like I did in 2012-2013.  This is really frustrating and it’s certainly limited the things I’m able to do.  I’m so eager to be active again – I, of course, want to lose the pregnancy weight… But, even more so, I just want to get in better shape and stronger!  

I’m so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year… Caleb loves getting together with family and Gabby will be even more interactive!

This is what my life looks like a lot of the time...

Surrounded by toys and laundry,

both kids on my lap,

and my heart is more full than I can describe! <3

(Seriously, though, you should see the way Caleb climbs on me

while I'm nursing Gabby! My life is a circus!)

One Month!

Gabriella is 1 month old!

Weight: 10 lbs., 13 oz. This is an estimate.  I weighed holding her and without her and then did the math.  At 2.5 weeks, she weighed 9 lbs., 7 oz.

Length: 22.25” This is from her appointment when she was 2.5 weeks old.

Head Circumference: 14.75”

Diaper Size: Newborn.  We’re just finishing up the newborn ones that we have and then we’ll switch to size 1.

Clothing Size: 0-3 months.  She was just about too long for newborn from the beginning.  She needed 0-3 month sleepers right away. She was able to wear a few newborn separates in her first week.

Nicknames: She is called Gabby most often, along with variations (Gabby Girl, Gabby Jane, Gabs, etc.).  Caleb calls her Abby and Baby.  She sometimes gets Lady Jane or Little Miss, as well :)

Health: She hasn’t had any health issues!  She started gaining a lot of weight quickly and she hasn’t had tear duct issues like Caleb had.  She did have one “scare” (that wasn’t really a scare).  She had a deep sacral dimple, so the pediatrician sent us for an ultrasound. Caleb had this too, but we avoided an ultrasound with him (I think we kind of said no to the doctor because she said it was borderline and he was moving fine, etc.).  Gabby’s was deeper than Caleb’s, so we decided to go ahead and get it looked at just in case, but all was fine!

Gabby on the left and Caleb on the right

She's definitely chunkier than he was!

And I definitely need to use my camera and not my phone 

for Gabby's pictures from now on ;)

Sleep: Gabriella is beginning to do a long stretch at night.  She’s often going 6+ hours after her bedtime feeding.  So, she’s sleeping at least 5 hours straight and I’m getting around 4.5-5 hours.  It’s so nice!  She has spaced out her daytime feedings to about 4 hours apart.  I then do her bedtime one after 2 or 3 hours, which I think helps her go a bit longer overnight.  She’s having more awake/alert time during the day now.  She’s really chill, just watching things :)

Diet: She’s just nursing.  She eats really well.  Early on, I had salsa and then Gabby seemed to have tummy-troubles the next day.  So, I eliminated salsa for the first month.  I just tried it again (technically in the second month) and she woke up in the middle of the night projectile spitting up.  So, I’m done with that again for a while!  I’ll try it again sometime, probably in another month, and see how she does.  

She's definitely eating well - Check out those cheeks!

Loves: She loves snuggles!   

She loves her swing! This was interesting to me because it took Caleb a lot longer to like it.

She loves being on her tummy.  This happened pretty early on with Caleb too.  He slept much better when he could roll onto his stomach.  Gabby is already a good sleeper, but I think she’ll like sleeping on her tummy too!

Dislikes: She is such a content baby, it’s hard to even think of dislikes… She cries when she has a wet diaper, when her tummy is upset, and when she’s really tired.  When she wakes up to eat, she’s just grunting – not crying or anything!

Milestones: She is just starting to give us little smiles and smirks.  Caleb was smiling a lot by this time, so I expected it sooner with Gabriella because she’s not nearly as fussy as he was.  We’ve decided that Gabby is just more even keeled.  Caleb had extreme ups and downs :)

She has been rolling from her back onto her side since she was born.  One time she made it onto her belly, but I think the incline of couch/blankets helped her!

I just love her! Such a beauty <3

Baby Gear Love: Fisher Price Rock & Play!  This is what she sleeps in every night, just like Caleb :) 

The Boppy is super helpful with nursing, although I don’t feel nearly as attached to it as I did with Caleb… I’m guessing this is just because I’m more used to nursing this time around.  

We LOVE the SwaddleMe again! 

Gabby loves our swing, which is from the Bright Starts Playful Pals line.  We got the travel swing, which is nice to be able to fold it up and put it against the wall.

Random Thoughts: Gabby likes the MAM pacifiers too, but she isn’t as attached to them as Caleb was. 

I’m excited to see her growing into her personality over the coming days/weeks/months.  I just love getting to know our kids <3  It’s really different having a more calm baby.  I’m sleeping more and not feeling overwhelmed with screaming all day like sometimes happened with Caleb.  I really love watching a relationship starting to develop between her and Caleb.  C is always concerned about Gabby, giving her kisses and her binky, etc.  And Gabriella will smile for him!

Mama Update:  I gained a total of 33 pounds during the pregnancy.  That was exactly the same amount I gained with Caleb!  I was hoping to not gain as much, but it definitely increased more quickly when I went on bed rest this summer.  I was still really bothered by it, but not as stressed as I was during my first pregnancy.  I guess I feel more confident that I can lose it this time around, since I did last time.

At 1 month out, I’ve lost 17 pounds and have 16 more to go.  I think I’ve actually lost a little more than that, but my weight seemed to be running higher on the day I weighed in.  Again, I’m not super stressed because I think I’ll lose it eventually, even if it’s slower than last time.  I’m looking forward to starting to walk at the Y for the first time in like 4 months!  (I have since gone to the Y twice.)

I’m generally feeling SO much better than I felt during my pregnancy and SO much better than I felt after giving birth to Caleb.  I have had a much easier time recovering this time, which is helpful since I have a toddler to take care of too!  Also, Pete was able to take off about 2 weeks from work.  This was a huge blessing; we’re so grateful for the way this worked out!

Gabriella's first Sunday in church!

Clearly Caleb is a handful...

Overall, we’re adjusting well to our new life :)  Caleb is a handful, like a lot of two year olds.  He just loves Gabby and I love to watch the way he cares for her.  I can’t believe Gabby is sleeping as well as she is and I sure hope it lasts ;)  It’s really helping with needing to be on my game during the day.  We just love Gabriella and, once again, it’s hard to imagine/remember what life was like without her.