Nov. 5, 2008 - 9 months and FINALLY a good night's sleep!

Well, about a week ago we decided to rearrange our Master bedroom. We were pretty sure that the reason Corban wasn't sleeping through the night was because he could see us and just wanted to visit mama in the middle of the night. We figured this out when we could option1: let him cry it out and he would just cry and cry and cry...or we would Option 2...both of us get up and sit on the couch...minutes later he was asleep! We had suspected it before because when he would sleep in another room he did fine sleeping through the night, but being pregnant and nursing him I kept thinking my milk supply was dropping and he needed the extra feedings. Anyway....so we got creative...our dressers are now in the middle of the bedroom, acting as a "headboard" to our bed...and Corban's crib is on the other side of them. He has his own little area now and he has been sleeping wonderfully! We also upped his bedtime to 7:30. So he sleeps till about 6:00am (when Eric's alarm goes off) and has a "dream feed" eats and goes strait back to bed...until about 8:30-9:00. Then he gets up to start his day. He's eating solids 3 times a day and taking 2 naps...one at 10:30 and one at 2:30...the rule is it has to be alteast 1½ hours, and he can sleep up to 2½ hours before I wake him up. We have also been working on our wake time activity schedule...we started Blanket time training and he's progressing slowly. I've also tried to incorporate some outside time with him since we have had such beautiful weather. He Loves the wind blowing in his face and checking out all the crunchy leaves. He tries to eat them, but we remind him that its "not food" and I think he's starting to learn to not eat them, he doesn't try nearly as often as he did at first! Today when we went out there, we sat in the driveway and he waved at several of the cars that drove by, it was so cute!  I also saw him move from his knees to both feet then back to his knees again for the first time. I think it won't take long for him to figure out he can stand up once he get's his balance. He has been pulling up for months now, and several times a day we see him let go and try to balance for a second before sitting down.