Update

It is well past time I got these photos up from the rest of Aiden and Daddy's journey last week. It has been a pretty busy week since we got back home, so getting time to update things has been kind of tough. So the first set of pictures are from our visit with Daddy's Dad, and then a few more from visiting Aiden's Mimi. There is video, but I will have to go through that and figure out what Blogger will let me upload in a day or two.

Right now our big project is getting Aiden to sleep in his own room. Yeah, we're finally doing it. It's tough because we kept him with us through the acid reflux and exzema, primarily so that we would feel like we were getting some sleep since we just had to get up and walk a couple of feet to the crib and get him settled down. But then suddenly we have an 8 month old who is not sleeping through the night and has not spent any measurable amount of time in his own room.

So, everyone has different theories on getting baby to sleep in their own room. It basically boils down to two general ideas, the "cry it out" or Ferber method and the no tears method. After very little research, but lots of advice from friends we opted for the Ferber method. We started the process on Monday night, unfortunately things didn't go so well, as daddy thought he would help mommy get some sleep by taking his book and reading in the chair next to Aiden's crib while he cried it out. An hour long marathon cry ensued, until Aiden finally gave in to exhaustion and fell asleep.

The following night we went with the so called plan, putting him down, sleepy but awake, and walk out of the room. 5 minutes after he starts crying, go in and comfort him and settle him down, repeat this 5 minute process until he falls asleep, second night is 10 minutes, and so on.

Well I can't tell you how each individual night has gone, but tonight I put him down, he cried for about3 minutes and has been quiet ever since. Last night he cried for about 10 minutes before quieting down... then I made the mistake of going to take a peak and make sure he was okay, he saw me and started bawling.

Each night we have gotten him down somewhere between 10:30-11:30 and he has slept until about 5:30 each morning, with the exeption of Saturday morning when he slept until 6:30. He may have slept later on Friday as well, but a HUGE Lightning crash at 5:30 woke him up and scared him.. we're trying not to give in and bring him over to our bed in the morning for more sleep, but that thunderstorm warrented a little extra attention. Saturday morning after a bottle at 6:30 we let him cry it out again in his crib until he fell back asleep and slept until 9. So we are getting there.

Hopefully before too long we'll have that baby who sleeps blissfully for 11-12 hours straight in the night. I dare to hope. :-)

Enjoy the pictures!!