learning.

i'll admit, while being preggo i had all these aspirations for our child- he will never ever sleep in our bed, he won't be attached to sucking his thumbs, suckys, listening to music when he goes to bed etc etc.

first night- baby sleeps in our bed. 

first week- baby becomes addicted to sucky to calm down and go to sleep. 

we have spent the next several weeks, with the babe in the bed so that we can keep his sucky in his mouth and for some reason he goes to sleep faster. let me tell you that's been a challenge with the husband who subconsciously tries to kill the child in his sleep, by covering his mouth with his hand or covering him with blankets.

as we all know, mommy likes her sleep so this seemed to be best option so she didn't have to get up all the time for the babe.

however.... 

- this past week we've learned that baby can go to sleep in his own bed. even when he's wide awake, he'll eventually go to sleep after he sits there talking to himself for a bit. who knew you could leave a baby alone and he'd just go to sleep? score one for mom and dad.

- we've also learned that when we don't start out with the sucky- we don't need it to go to sleep. score two for mommy and dad.

it's quite a good feeling knowing that we figured out how to get the child to work our way.

 

[grouchy grouchy baby]

{it's amazing how this little bugger makes everything better when it's in his mouth. whoever invented these is a genius}