Shhhh - kids sleeping!

One of the biggest challenges new parents face is lack of sleep.  It usually starts during pregnancy... and soon you find yourself celebrating a 3 HOUR stretch of sleep like you just won the lottery!

Both of our boys slept great from about 2 weeks old until about 3 months old.  Then.... they turned on us! 

With Colby we finally tackled the sleep monster at 16 months old.  It took 3 REALLY rough nights and 3 more fairly tough nights... but we persisted and soon ALL of us were sleeping better!

We vowed we would tackle this issue much sooner with subsequent children.... and  9ish months later Brendan was born!  (Haha.... yup.... I figured people could do the math so I'd just make it easy on them!)

So.... have we followed through?!  Yes!  But I truly have no clue if we can really take credit for it.... I kinda feel like we just lucked out.

After we got back from our recent trip to Utah we decided it was time to set uo Brendan's crib... in our guest room (doubles as his room).  We figured we would not change anything except his sleep location at first - then we'd tackle the many-times-a-night wake-ups, etc.  But we were surprised by what happened!  In the pack-n-play in our room Brendan woke many times a night between 7:30pm when we'd put him to bed and 7ish am when my boys are ready to tackle the day (and often earlier).  In his crib in the other room?  Twice a night.  Usually about the time we'd head to bed (10ish).... and then once more (sometime between 2am & 4am).  AMAZING.  That lasted a few days..... then he went to only waking ONCE! 

It has now been a few weeks and we are SO happy with how well he is doing.  Most nights he wakes once between 7:30pm and morning wake-up time.  Last night he woke a couple times between 7:30 and 11:15 when we went to bed, just being fussy (Jimmy would go in, pick him up, sing him a song, and he'd be back out) - and then he slept until 7am - no wake-ups to nurse!  Wow!

So.... for now, we are going to enjoy the sleep we are getting and not do anything different.  I mean really, why mess with a good thing?!

Oh and a super adorable new routine we have - when Brendan wakes up Colby likes to go see him.  The last few days he's requested to get in brendan's crib to snuggle / say hi.  OF COURSE I say yes!  Because then cute stuff like THIS happens....