Sleep tactics

Sleep - that precious commodity, so rare these days, so hard to find, but heaven when it happens!
Every parent must have gone through the same tactics and tricks that we have gone through to get Aimee to sleep. So far, we have tried rocking in arms, singing, pop music, swinging in the car seat, walking around in the sling, lullabies - the lot.
All of them work to some extent, but not all the time. You start with one, then guage the reaction. If the Aimee gets more agitated you move to the next one and so on. Until either you or Aimee conks out.
Last night was a new one - white noise. My white noise to be precise. I lay Aimee down and she was too excitable to sleep, staring at all and sundry. If you leave her alone, she'll protest so I stayed there and started making continuous hissing and gurgling sounds from my mouth. Weird I know but it seemed to hypnotise her - it took a long time though but eventually she fell asleep. That was it, off to bed and Aimee did not make a peep until 5am - hoorah!

Aimee has a new trick herself. She can put all her fingers in her mouth and make herself gag. I actually think she enjoys the sensation. No harm seems to come of it and she hasn't actually gone so far as to vomit, but it does look disturbing. She seems happy though.

Won't be long before the dreaded teeth come through.