sleep training...again

somehow we have found ourselves reading stories and rocking her to sleep for the last 6-9 months. at first it was fine but recently it's been taking longer and longer to get her to sleep. sometimes up to 3 hours of zach and i taking turns reading and trying not to pull our hair out. it's resulted in tears (on my part) a number of times. most nights she is not asleep until 10 or 11 at night!! we've decided to put an end to it and get some sleep training in before baby brother comes. the first night it went fairly well. zach put her down and she whined on and off for about 45 minutes then slept soundly for the night. the second night was a bit more brutal. she didn't have a nap and was zonked out at 8pm. then she woke at 9pm and was hysterical. we went up in intervals to assure her that she was ok and that we loved her and she needed to close her eyes. this went on until about 10:30 when she finally drifted off. tonight is round 3. she is going to get 3 stories and then get into bed. we'll see how long the crying lasts. fingers crossed. 

this is hard!!!

in other news she has peed in the potty 2 more times. woo hoo!!