Good Sleep

So I feel the need to update you on the happenings at our little home. Guess who is sleeping soooooooooooo much better?

Yes, it is that little man eating bananas! A week ago tonight we gave a real effort at teaching Owen to sleep. Little Bit would rather be held the entire nap or sleep in between me and David...but that just wasn't cutting it. So with some hesitation we started sleep learning ( I prefer to call it that). A friend recommended this book: The Sleepeasy Solution.

And well my friends, it is amazing it actually worked! I will tell you the first few nights and days were not easy. You can ask my neighbors who saw me and Owen looking a little rough and weary by about Thursday, but by Saturday Owen went straight to sleep by himself after 15 minutes...you just don't know what a big deal that was. And every night since he has done well. He sleeps so much longer and harder when he falls asleep by himself in his crib. He is also doing so much better with his naps. We are seeing real progress and so happy for our little fellow. If you know anyone that is dealing with sleep issues, it is a great book for ages birth to five years old.

Besides sleep, Owen has been doing alot of this: pointing

His favorite thing to point to is the fan. Each time you enter a new room...points straight to the fan (it is pretty fabulous and all). 

Other than the fan, he points to lights and if you are a special person in his life he just might point to you : )

But back to my main point (haha) of this post...Owen is making real progress with his sleep!! Yay

(Update: I feel I must update this post in case anyone ever ran across and read about our sleep dilemma. Owen is one year old and sleep is not what my baby does best. It really took him until he was 11 months old to sleep through the night (as in from 8 to 7 in the morning). He just was not a baby that could cry it out. It literally would make him sick to his stomach. And no one can handle that. This book's suggestions worked for a few weeks and then traveling and sickness put us back to square one. And then we just did whatever worked to get through some colds, teething. etc. And then one night he just didn't wake up. I don't really know what the secret is or was. He still has nights he will wake up. Right now he is working on getting his molars in, so I think it is harder when he goes through lighter phases of sleep in the night. I think every baby is different and different things work for different babies. We still rock when we got to bed and he usually falls asleep and slightly wakes up when he lays down. He can sleep through the night but some nights are still rough. So this book may or may not be an answer for sleep deprived mamas and daddies. Every baby is different! )