Happy Baek-Il!

When I was pregnant with Audrey, I would be asked all the time if I was "finally having a girl". Perfect strangers I would never see again were curious to know. Now that we have Audrey, the comment we get all the time is, "You finally got your girl!" Of course, it's still difficult to tell by looking at her that we have a girl since she still looks like a boy. A yoda-looking boy.

But she's my adorable boyish yoda-looking girl. Audrey turned 100 days old this week and we celebrated with family by going down to Redondo Beach Pier for some yummy crab.

It goes without saying that for each of her 100 days, I have felt incredibly blessed to have Audrey. This week has been no different as I finally decided to sleep-train her at bedtime. I've been far more lax with her than w/our boys, but everyone who knows us knows that Kwang and I are big on sleep-training and believe that any child can be taught. Neither of us looked forward to it, though, because this was a girl who cried for over six hours on the drive home from Las Vegas. So Night #1 of sleep-training started with a bet: Kwang didn't think she would cry herself to sleep in less than 2 hours. I thought she would. The result? 1 hour and 54 minutes of non-stop crying. But at 1 hour and 55 minutes, she had soothed herself to sleep. It was one of the most painful nights, because her cry is so sad. It nearly killed me to pat her and leave each interval and I was pretty much hating myself the whole time. In fact, all week. But last night was Night #5 and all Audrey did was wimper twice before putting herself to sleep without another peep. That's my girl...

Audrey was definitely the most difficult in this area out of our three kids. It's hard to believe I had to sleep-train Eli, because now he LOVES his sleep. In fact, these days he'll retire for the night on his own. None of us will know where he is only to find him lying in his bed for the night. I sometimes wonder if he's really a 50 year old man inside a 2 year old's body.

And while Eli will do things that make us laugh, Jude will do things that make us proud. A couple months ago, he wrote something on his aquadoodle and told us it was "COSTCO":

Not bad, Jude!