Sleep training - again

Since Payton had that nasty cold a couple weeks ago, her sleeping has not been the greatest. She got used to us coming in when she cried - but that she's healthy, that had to stop! She would only wake up once and would go right back to sleep after snuggling for a bit but she was clearly not in any pain and i think the disruption in sleep was contributing to her crankiness in the morning - it was definitely contributing to mine! So we decided to let her cry...the first night, it took about 45 minutes, then the second night it only took 30 minutes at most...i'm happy to report that last night she went to bed at 830 and didn't make a peep until 900 this morning! Hopefully that wasn't just a fluke. We'll be glad to have our sweet, funny babe back and say goodbye to the monster she was becoming! Although, i'm guessing that has a little something to do with her age - so I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that little monster. She has some new "tricks" lately, one of our faves is when we sing a song that goes "it's freezing, it's freezing, I hope I don't start sneezing - achoo!" - I was singing it the other day and when I got to the "achoo" part, Payton said "ohh-two!". I almost peed my pants...who knew she was actually listening to us when we sing?!?! they're always listening, and learning - so fun! Payton moment(s) - Brian picks P up from school most of the time, and when they're walking to the house from the car Brian always locks his doors and the horn beeps. The other day he forgot to do it so P pointed to the car and said "beep beep!" - how she remembers these things blows my mind.