Miles' room (Before)
Miles' room (after!)
It's kind of hard to see the actual colors from pictures...but we kept the denim blue that was Mike's room in a thin stripe and a thicker stripe and then used a baby blue on the top and a grayish blue in the middle and a chocolate brown below.
I recently pulled out my baby sleep books and was reminded how important it is to get your baby to sleep before they are overtired and how important getting them on a schedule is.
Tonight is night 3 of a bedtime routine for Miles and so far it's going well. We'll see how long his first stretch goes...hopefully it'll be the 6-7 hours it has been the first few nights.
And my update on Max's binkie abolishment...
For nap today he only cried for 10 minutes and it was a weak cry. Although it's killing me that he can talk because he would cry and say, "Go go...bye bye (remember he calls his binkie/blankey his "go go"s)...peeease peeeaase (please)...oooh kaaayyyy". So basically...Binkie went bye bye...please come back, okay?!". Talk about sticking a knife in my heart and twisting it around!
For bedtime he cried for about 1/2 the time he did last night and only cried for about 25 minutes. But, he SCREAMED bloody murder from the minute Brad put him in his crib and it almost made me cry to watch him from his monitor because he paced his crib like you see Lions at the Zoo do. He looked so upset and confused. Oh...it really was hard not to run in there and give him every binkie I could find to comfort him. But, I just have to keep telling myself that this is a good move and that it is what's best for his teeth. His dentist told me to get rid of it 6 months ago and showed me horrible pictures of childrens teeth that had been affected from their binkies. I know that Max was not in that jeapardy as he only had his binkie for naps and bedtime (and bedtime I took it away after he fell asleep)...but it always made me worry after that.
I do have to say that I'm so proud of him for making it through yet another tough transition. When he woke up this morning I was just beaming with pride and so happy for him that he's doing this. I know he has no choice...but I'm still so proud of him. He, by the way, slept until 8:30 this morning! We had an icky snow storm today (is it REALLY Spring???!) and so it was cloudy this morning, which I'm sure helped him to stay asleep longer.
More updates to come...I expect that he'll have some protest crying for the remainder of the week and maybe into next week...but it seems that some headway is taking place! :)
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