Sunday, June 6, 2010

A Good Night's Sleep

Pretty much everyone that knows us knows that we swaddle Parker when he goes to sleep every night. I believe that this the primary reason for the amazingness that is him sleeping all night! In the evenings, we have a pretty good routine going. Parker gets a bath every other night. After his bath (or from the start on non-bath nights), we take him into his room and lay him on the floor with either nothing or nothing but a diaper on.
"talking"

He lays there pretty happy, watching the fan and the light. We talk to him, read to him, and just play with him until he starts to get fussy. Once this happens, we wrap him up nice and tight in his swaddle blanket, turn on the Sleep Sheep, shut the curtains, and turn off the big light. I feed him while walking around his room, and when he falls asleep or finishes eating and is really sleepy, we lay him in his crib. We give him his paci sometimes and other times do not. He sleeps from around 830 until around 630 or 7 the next day. It is so wonderful! He is usually so sweet when we go into his room to get him out of his crib in the mornings. He blinks his eyes when he's waking up and smiles, and it's so cute. He often is half-out of his swaddle blanket and looks like he's wearing a toga.
"Good Morning!"
We hope this wonderful sleep pattern continues for a loooooong time.........

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