For those who don’t know, my kids are awesome at sleeping. I know some people get tired of hearing about it, but I’m so very pleased with this phenomenon. Laela still wakes up once in the night, which I think I can forgive her for, at four months old. Dekker was sleeping through but two months, but he was much bigger and ate way more. Laela has started eating like a horse before bed just in the last few days, so we’re hoping and praying we’re almost at the point where she’ll sleep through! Now would be the best possible timing, little girl!
This afternoon, around 2:30pm, I noticed both kids starting to whine while we were together in the basement. I decided to try something different. I carried Laela upstairs, wrapped her up wiiide awake, and put her in her bed and walked away. (Of course, we have a monitor set up downstairs.) Then I went back down to collect Dekker. He cried when I told him it was time to go upstairs, but instead of throwing a fit the whole way up, he asked to be carried. So I carried him upstairs, took of his glasses and tucked him in. I asked him to just lay still and have a rest, and I walked away.
And they slept. For three hours.
I am completely blown away by my kids. No, Dekker didn’t jump around and put his nap off like he does some days. And no, Laela didn’t have to cry herself to sleep. They both just did their thing for three hours!!! I couldn’t be more proud 🙂 Or rested, I suppose.
On a separate note, I have talked in the past about bedtime cuddles and Dekker coming into our room to jump on the bed before bedtime. I’m not sure if I mentioned before that we were slowly phasing that out(?) I miss it sooo much!, but the change has worked wonders. Deks no longer cries when he sees we’re coming into his room instead of taking him out. We have a few little games that we play that involve lots of love and hugs and kisses, so I get my cuddles and he gets his playtime. We have the same fun with less devastation when he has to leave. Does that make sense? We’re really happy with the result – tantrum-free bedtime!
Ok, done bragging about the littles. Hopefully they have a nice, long night.
Hopefully you all do too 🙂