2 (sad) things

1) I forgot to share my awesome bonding moment with Mills a week or two ago: so I'm holding her (she's facing me), and I'm singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow (I cannot quite hit those notes, but I give it a good shot).  Then she sticks her fingers in my mouth while I'm singing.  This isn't weird...she does this a lot.  She's been very interested in mouths and noses and ears lately.  Anyhoo, so I'm singing around her fingers and thinking "something smells strange"...and then I notice some brown stuff around her mouth.  Yep.  Yessireebob.  Apparently, her hands had been in her dirty diaper.  puke-o-rama.  Thankfully, JKK was home...I dropped the kid and ran to the bathroom to wash my mouth out and dry heave.  sick. out.

2) Friday night, JKK and I were watching a movie after Mills went to bed.  She rarely wakes up right after we put her down, but in the middle of the movie, she starts wailing.  So I look at the video monitor and she's still laying down but crying really hard.  Should I go up there or let her try to go back to sleep?  [Background...in the past month, we've had some frequent nighttime wakings, which I think have been due to teething.  Well, it started getting more and more frequent, so about 2 weeks ago, I decided to just let her cry herself back to sleep in the middle of the night.  It worked great and she has been going right back to sleep, and now she hardly wakes up in the night at all.  I guess we just needed to break the habit.]  Back to Friday night...this is strange that she would wake up so early around 9pm...but even stranger that she's still laying down, so I go up there...and oh my poor girl has her arm stuck in between the crib slats at a weird angle.  Awwwwww, poor Mills.  It is weird instances like this that make me so afraid of the cry-it-out method.