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Addison's new favorite thing...Her thumb! This was the first time she's fallen asleep while sucking it. Everyone tells me not to let her do it b/c it's a habit that's hard to break and I agree 100%. We've tried...trust me. Inserting the pacifier when we see the hand heading that way, putting mittens on her at night (I know, we're mean), but none of it works. She's sneaky. Somehow she gets the mittens off at night. And if you take it out when it's already in she gets so mad. She sucks it in the bathtub during her nightly bath b/c she knows we're busy and can't keep it out. So we're done fighting her. Luckily she only does it when she's tired and it normally comes out pretty soon after she's fallen asleep. She doesn't do it much during the day so hopefully it will be something that she won't need as time passes.Addison has been getting a little fussy in the evenings between 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm for a week or two now. I can tell that she's already starting to get over it which is good. She tends to get sleepy pretty early and has pretty much set a bedtime for herself of 8:00 pm. She'll normally sleep for about 5 hours and then want to eat. From there it's every 3 hours so we need that to get a little longer. This is the only thing that seems to calm her down in the evenings...laying in daddy's arms.

Back to work tomorrow. I have mixed emotions about it, but I will definitely miss being with her. I can't believe it has been 10 weeks. Michael will be home with her for 3 weeks so I have a little bit of a transition period before she starts daycare. I think I'll need it! It's amazing how she has changed our lives. I love her so much!!!

A couple more pics. We made a surprise visit to my mom on Thursday. Our first trip together without dad. This is her getting a bath in the same sink that I did when I was little and I let her sleep with me for the first time. Jim snapped this picture Friday morning. It sure was a fun night and she did really good away from home. She looks so big in this picture.