Almost There

We think. We hope. We pray. That we are almost there.

Sleeping through the night, that is. We have juggled eating with bath time with naps in the evenings to try and figure out how or when Quincy should go down for the night. One night this week, Monday I think, when Quincy got home from daycare (he had just eaten there) we put him in his swing. He fell asleep as usual but he kept sleeping and sleeping. He slept for 4 hours. At that point I was asking John, should we wake him up to feed him and then put him to bed? Or just put him to bed? What to do? Both of us were waiting for him to get up and then get down for the night before we could go to bed. It was about 10pm at this point. We decided to not wake him but just to wait on him. So about 2 hours later, now midnight, we are thinking, "what if this is the night that he sleeps all night and we stay up waiting for him to wake up?". So we finally went to bed around 12:30am. That magical thing happened then, just as we pulled the covers up to our heads and had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads, Quincy cries.

We are trying to figure it out here. So the next night when Q gets home from daycare, we immediately bathe him and put him to bed. It was actually kind of late, he didn't get home until 6:30, so it was between 7:30-8:00pm before we got him down. I think he slept that night until 4am. Last night we put him down at 7pm and he wakes up at 5am! Yippee! John fed him at 5 and put him back down and he is still sleeping now, it is 8am. 8am, Saturday morning, kind of gloomy outside, nothing to do, and I'm blogging? I think that I'm just so excited about Q sleeping that I literally could not sleep! I stayed in bed for what seemed like hours and tossed and turned thinking that we may have turned a corner here! So, I'm up blogging about it!