We have had a pretty lazy weekend at home! We were thinking we were going to have really bad weather but it really was not bad at all. It lightly rained pretty much all day yesterday and we had some gust of wind here and there but other than that it was not bad. We were very thankful that our house in Greenville looks ok too. Greenville got much more rain and wind than we did but our sweet friends drove by our house and said everything looked ok. I worked from home last night and it was so nice to just stay in. Josh and I were in bed by 930p watching a movie.
We are just so proud of Wade. We have had to sleep train many times in our house. It seems like every few months he goes through spells where he cries at bedtime etc. We started putting him to bed awake when he was so little and we would let him put himself to sleep. This has been the best thing we ever did. Sometimes I would want to sit and rock him but then I would always think...I don't want to be rocking him when he is 2. Well he has done GREAT transitioning to a big boy bed. He has slept all night since we moved him in there and has not gotten up once.
Well the only thing that changed was that he wanted one of us to lay with him. We did this for the first little bit thinking he was scared well it quickly became a habit. So it was time to break that habit. Josh loves laying with him but what would happen was this. They would lay down together and it would take Wade forever to fall asleep. If Josh tried to sneak out Wade would wake up and cry. So Josh usually ended up falling asleep to and I would have to go wake him up. Some nights it would take a hour or more to get Wade to sleep so Josh and I did not have any time together before we went to bed. We have always been so used to having a couple of hours together before we went to sleep.
Monday night our mission began. It went so much better than we thought. We had three nights of crying. The first two nights were the longest about 15-20 minutes and the third night was so much better. By Thursday night Wade and I talked and decided he was a big, strong and brave boy and that there was no need to cry. Well sure enough he did great and since Thursday night he has not cried! We put him in bed at 815p and we read or tell stories and then we leave the room by 830p. It is heavenly. He ususally "plays" in his bed once we leave. He doesn't get down so I am totally fine with this. He "reads" his books or tells stories to his animals. We have got to video it. Josh heard him tonight and he said "Once upon a time there was a little girl named Dora, a boy names Boots and a boy named Diego," that just makes me smile thinking about him saying it! Josh and I both hate hearing Wade cry but oh we are so happy at 830p when he is happily in bed!!
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