Babywise

Finally!  He's sleeping through the night!  Whoop!  I took advantage of the Eid break and put NA on a schedule.  I did the same thing I did with EM many moons ago.  I loosely followed Babywise.  Eat, Wake, Sleep, Repeat.  I still have him on an every 3 hour schedule because I like being able to sneak in an extra feeding (so does NA.) We may move to every 4 hours at 7 months.  We put him down for his naps and bedtime while he is awake.  The first few times he fussed.  Started out with 30 minutes of fussing (and me going in there every 10 minutes to reassure him that he was capable of falling asleep while he wasn't eating.)  Each day the fussing got less and less.  Now he fusses for 1 minute (just one) before he falls off to sleep.  Oh!  and I play a music - I didn't do that with EM.  Its a recording of a rain storm.  Play it every time he gets put in the bed and I play it very loud - like you're sitting on the front porch during a rain storm.  My thought was that it would be like Pavlov and his his doggie.   On top of him sleeping through the night when he wakes up in the morning he rarely cries.  He just chills in his crib talking to Seabert the seahorse until I come in to get him up for the day.  I'm happy that NA responded well to it. 

EM is starting to show signs of being in the middle east too long.  He has a love for fast and/or expensive cars.  I don't know how he knows which ones are the expensive ones and which ones are not, but he knows.  While he was picking out the car that will take him to work - a McLaren mind you - he comments, "I like expensive cars, huh Mommy?"  Well, yes son.  That's affirmative.  Bless his heart.  At least he has a generous heart and won't be all stingy with his expensive cars, because he offers to buy me one of whatever he's getting.  :)  Must get this in writing ... and signed.