sleeping tight

The two things that affect us, as parents, to the core is Rosie's ability to eat healthily and to get enough sleep. Ahhh sleep training. The battle continues.

This summer has been a bit hectic with a nice long vacation leading into selling and buying houses which led to a shift in our bedtime routine. We've been enjoying (for the most part) having Rosie sleep with us. The moments before she falls asleep and right when she wakes up are often the sweetest. Rosie loves to give us kisses before dozing off and to be silly and steamroll over us in the mornings. But the time has come to make sure she can fall asleep independently and get a full night's sleep.

On night two of her return to the crib, she went down without a fight/peep (miracle!). I wasn't counting on the fight being over there, and like clockwork she woke at 2:30am. I set the timer for 30 minutes since we decided to let her struggle through it for that much time before going in. Before we knew it she was back to sleep. And she's still sleeping at 7:00am!

Of course, the morning she is sleeping in, I could not enjoy it (thanks, garbage trucks). But at least I could spend some time with DaddyO before he headed off to work and now have some quiet time. Though really, I can't wait for her to wake up so we can play!

I don't have a new picture so here is a walk down memory lane with the Cardinal of Sleep:

sidenote: 7:04 she's awake! yay!