Sweet sleep

2/9/06
As many of you know, Kyle sleeps with us. We put him to bed in his crib, then transfer him to our bed when we go to bed. Well, last night we decided we'd "play dead" or pretend to sleep when he woke up in the middle of the night. Little guy did great! He would fuss a little and put himself back to sleep in five minutes or less; and he ate less often: Once when we brought him to bed at 11:45, again at 3:45, and this morning at 7:00 when we all woke up.

I'm not going to get my hopes up, but he's also doing better during his naps; being able to put himself back to sleep if he wakes up sneezing and such. It's only been a couple days that we've been implementing new middle of the night sleep waking procedures.

If nothing else during this process, we know we've got a little genius on our hands. Of course, we've always thought he was smart, but last night when Kevin would go in to give Kyle a little pat if he woke up, Kev found him all the way in the corner of his crib closest to the door. He definitely knows we don't disappear when he goes to bed! Also, he's figured out how long we wait between times to come pat him when he wakes up. He hardly fusses until the 5 minute mark is reached, then he lets out a howl. We're going to up it to 7 minutes tonight I think and see how that goes.

2/13/06
UPDATE:
Kyle sleeps in his crib without so much as a peep now until we bring him to bed with us! This happened three nights in a row! However...

Kyle loves to sleep next Kevin when he sleeps in our bed. The problem is that Kevin moves quite a bit and it's been waking Kyle up to the point where he's unable to put himself back to sleep. So tonight we'll try Kyle sleeping in his crib the whole night instead of joining us in bed. I'm a little sad because my favorite part about this whole process has been waking up to Kyle smiling, cooing, and playing with us in the mornings!

In other news, we traveled to Chandler for a bike race this weekend. I had a good time, although failed to make it to the main event. Kevin went on a road bike ride and Kyle got to hang out with a good showing of his grandparents while we were there!