LInkIn SlEepS!!!

I am very very very happy to announce that my beautiful wonderful awesome child sleeps solid through the night!!! Being a first time Mom is hard because there are so many things that you dread trying because of all the horror stories you hear from other parents and what not. I thought I would have the hardest time ever trying to get him to actually go back to sleep when he wakes up without giving him a bottle. Wow!!! Boy was it easier than I thought. The kid took ONE night and only like ONE and a half "sessions" before he stopped crying and crying for me. It was amazing. I spent about a half an hour ( felt like a whole three days...) "sleep training" him during the first cry session. I went in there about every five or ten minutes (it's supposed to get longer and longer but I didn't have it). Anyway, all I would do is go in there, pat his back and rub it and give him his binky, etc, and then walk right back out. Me being in there didn't calm him AT ALL but I still kept doing it and while I was there and while I wasn't, he was screaming and crying like a maniac. But after about a half hour, maybe fourty five minutes, he stoppppppped! And then....he was asleep!!! I couldn't believe it at all. I was thrilled to death. So I JUMPED into bed and tried to fall asleep as fast as I could because I knew it was going to be a LONG week and LONG night. So about three or four hours later, he woke up again. He cried for maybe ten minutes and I might have went in there once or twice to pat his back. But then he fell asleep again! Well that was night number one of throwing in the towel and deciding that I can't can't can't handle getting up that many times with a child this old and since that night, Linkin hasn't awoke in the night and screamed and cried for me or his bottle! It has been amazing. The first couple days, I woke up in the morning with my heart so full and felt sooo proud of him for doing. I actually thought that it would never ever ever ever end, but it has and it's the biggest relief in the world. Great great great~!! He also goes right to sleep when we put him in bed most times. Ok well I take it back...he actually dilly dallies around in his crib for a half hour sometimes but he doesn't scream and cry like he's mad to be in there. He actually seems to like it quite a bit. He's so cute though. One time, he was really quiet and I figured he was asleep so I snuck in there to get something and there he was standing up to the edge of his crib playing with the mobile that's hanging from it. h ahahah! What a nerd. He hurried and fell down and looked at me like he was in trouble. The things that a baby this young knows is crazy! I can't remember right now what I mean, but I'll tell you when I do remember. ha ha! He has learned a lot of fun things. He can throw a ball as you've seen, he can give kisses....my favorite thing. I ask him like twenty times a day...twenty??? More like five hundred!!! He's like, "mom, come on - there's a limit to this!" sometimes he'll push my face away but most of the time, he opens his mouth and sticks his tongue out and leans towards me and gives me a big open mouth kiss. I always tell him not to kiss me like that because I'll get arrested, but he doesn't listen. I think it's so cute that he doesn't quite know what to do but he knows what kisses are and tries real hard. Whenever I say, "Linkin give me five, he gets this huge grin on his face and then smacks my hand. I love it, it's so funny! I'll try and get a video. What else? Well he's a little BUGGER!! He likes to get into MISCHIEF in anyway he can. I'm sure ALL kids do this because they are exploring but his favorite things are the toilet, and hopefully he can get there while the seat is up (his hopes, not mine) so he can splash around in the water and have a hay day. He also gets into diesels big dog dish and splashes in that water. I even caught him eating a few bites of dog food one day. He likes to eat dirt, and that's totally a baby thing I think! And he loves to get into the garbage can. And pull every single thing out of it and throw it all over. In fact, I'm surrounded in garbage right now because I let him get in the one by the computer because it's just all paperwork garbage so it's not so cucka! Then I clean it up and we start all over. He's sure a lot of fun though. Having a normal nights sleep is so life changing. I actually don't feel much different at all but if I think about it, I feel happy and excited!!! He's a good boy. I just love him so much!!!

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[Jenn]

You need to fix the color on your comment button for your page.. it is grey like the back ground and you totally can not see it at all. Did you try the child calm? Was that any help to your sucess? And congratulations--- see you are a GREAT mom!!!