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And just like that, my baby is no longer a baby. What what?? This had to have been the faster year in the history of my time on Earth. Although many (MANY) of the nights felt like the longest, and not because I was in glorious slumber, the time did go fast. Timehop is now reminding me of newborn photos that I posted a year ago and my heart is aching a little for that time back. Of course, those photos don't reflect the agony I was in with breastfeeding a baby with a tongue tie, or the tears I shared with my children when both of them were wailing for me at the same time. Truth be told, I am happy to be out of the newborn/little baby phase ONLY because of that hard stuff. The snuggles, the baby wearing, the sweet smell, the milestones, staying where you leave them...it was lovely. But the hard stuff was hard. So I'm ready to see what's next! In her final month of her first year, Annabel finally became mobile. She's a pro at crawling and climbing stairs, as ...

I started out working on Annabel's 12-month update, and then suddenly found myself writing paragraph after paragraph about her sleep and what we're doing about it. So, it turned into a post of its own. Will see how quickly I get to her actual (final) monthly update. Hmm. We've had to get tough with sleep recently. Annabel started out being a pretty good sleeper. Then, with time, nights got worse and worse. We had some decent nights, where she'd only wake once and could be lulled back to sleep fairly easily with some milk. And then there were the nights with multiple wake-ups, where I'd sit holding her, willing her back to sleep while my whole body ached with tiredness. The worst was when she'd wake up crying minutes after I'd fall asleep for the night. There is really not much worse than that. Especially when you are perpetually tired. Shortly after Annabel's first birthday, we started sleep training. And by we I mean me, because let's face it:...