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Dear Gracie,

This month has been very busy being that it is the holiday season. We’ve been visiting a lot, especially with your grandmas and grandpas. Everyone loves you and thinks you’re cuter than ever. You’re growing so fast though. At your latest doctor appointment you were 12 lbs 4 oz. I forgot how tall but you’re right on the charts for both height and weight. You still love your car seat and we have no problems traveling anywhere, thank goodness. Our biggest difficulty lately is teething. You are doing it and doing it a LOT. You constantly chew on your hands, drool, and shove blankets up over your face to chew them. You don’t want toys or anything. Your hands are good enough. You’ve also taken to guiding mommy or daddy’s fingers to your mouth so you can suck on them. This is making you VERY fussy and at times it is incredibly frustrating because we don’t know what to do to help you. Usually it’s just cuddles with back rubs/pats until you drift off.

Speaking of hand control, it’s getting there. You don’t yet grab at objects but we can see you’re getting close. Laying on your belly you will lift your chest up but you’re still too little to crawl anywhere and it frustrates you. You don’t like laying down a lot. Your swing is a place you spend a lot of time when we’re not holding you. You also sometimes prefer to sleep in it as opposed to on your back. We think it has to do with it being harder to breathe due to dryness so you nap there a lot. We finally put your crib up 2 days ago and you will sleep in it for a bit, a few hours. During the night if you wake up we bring you into bed with us though. Mommy and daddy try to get some cuddle time in while you’re in your crib since it’s hard with you with us. Night sleeping has been going pretty well. I’d say 12 hours with 2-3 wakeups for food and soon right back to sleep. Daddy has also been helping out with you a lot more and you are definitely a daddy’s girl. He seems to be able to soothe you sometimes when even i can’t. It’s a lovely sight.

Christmas was good. You got a few outfits, sleepers, and rattles/teethers from everyone. We got you the same and a Jumperoo which you’re not sure what to think of yet. You’re a tad bit on the small side to be using it but I see you having a lot of fun with it when you begin actually playing with the toys. Until next month…

Love,
Mommy and daddy