Sleep!

Ben slept from 8:00 pm to 4:00 am without making a peep!! That's miraculous! Now we have to work on 4:00 am thing...

Benny & Daddy.

I am posting a video I took a couple of days ago. Ben gets exhausted at around 5:00pm every day and was climbing on me and playing around.. he climbed up and I thought was giving me a hug when he put his head on my chest and didn't move for a bit. He slept for quite a while, when Jo came home she handed me the camera.. he's unbelievably sweet even off of little sleep he's the happiest and sweetest boy ever!

The secret to cry it out is...

...letting your baby cry so hard the first night that he loses his voice and you can't hear him crying on the subsequent nights! But seriously, Ben is very hoarse, but seems to be doing a little better. Last night he woke only 3 times and the night before only about 4 times. He's a little more clingy during the day, I guess because he isn't next to me all night, so we'll see if that continues. Most of the time he's just so sweet, and his smile has gotten so big. He's so lovable!!

Another sleep update

I was kind of disappointed that the development specialist told us to let Ben cry it out, and I rebelled against that advice for two weeks. I just can't see that a baby is learning to soothe himself when he is standing up and crying hysterically. But I guess there isn't any middle-ground way to do it. So we started Tuesday night, for REAL (Tim was still soothing Ben (parent-assisted) when we spent that week in October). Ben cried for 20 minutes at 9:30, 11:30, 2:30 and 4:00, but after Tim went in for the 15 minute reassuring visits and laid Ben down, he did his "thumb-chewing-yelling" thing and went to sleep. Only sometimes was he crying so hysterically. Yay for Ben! Wednesday night Ben woke about four times again, but didn't always stand up and didn't cry very loud or hysterically. Yay for Ben! So we'll see.

Have I said that he is the sweetest baby ever and I love him so much?

Ben at 10 months

Fall leaves

Trying to get the laughing video to have sound!