Those of you that aren't regular Dora watchers may not have understood the title to this post...it's from the theme song of none other than, Dora the Explorer. Anyway, the sleeping saga has been temporarily solved!!! Yes, Austin has been sleeping through the night IN HIS BED for the last few nights! YIPEE! The cure? Well, last Wednesday night we put him to bed and made the very difficult decision that we would NOT be going back into his room until morning. Better known as: The Cry It Out Method. Well, it was absolutely awful. Austin (and I) cried almost the entire night through. Austin lost his voice through it all. It was made very obvious to us though, that he was just wanting attention since he would be bawling and then stop to sing the K-State fight song, and then go back into bawling again. This proved to me that we were doing the right thing. So, my faithful husband held me through the night as I don't handle crying babies very well. I wanted to go in there so bad, but I knew if I did, that it would just make it worse. The next night we put him to bed and he cried for about 30 seconds and then crawled in his bed and didn't get up until morning! And he's been like that ever since! It worked! He's a smart little guy - and it only took Shawn and I about 2-3 weeks to figure out that he was playing us every night. Hopefully Shawn and I will get a bit sharper...ha! The cry it out method is definitely not the easy route to take - probably the hardest of them all, but sometimes a little tough love is the best thing you can do. And now we can all get some sleep (except for the 12 times I get up to pee in the night).
On another note, had yet another doctor's appointment today! Only 3 left! Yes, the baby will be here in just 3 weeks - yikes! I'm starting to get really antsy and am really wanting to know if it's a boy or girl - we finally have names nailed down - top secret though!! I'm feeling pretty good - definitely prego though. My belly is HUGE and I can no longer see the kids if they stand at my feet - they just hide right under my belly. I'm getting pretty tired pretty quick as the day goes on. I think I am just ready to have the baby and get the chaos going. Bring on the baby!!
Hope you are having the time of your life!
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Hi, Steph. Just wanted to let you know that I've been keeping up with your blog. It's nice to hear more about your day to day -- little easier to do on a blog than on the website you were using, huh?
Anyway, I enjoy your clever titles and posts. And I always get a chuckle out of your stories. There's generally at least one line in each post that really gets me. Recent examples are, "...he would be bawling and then stop to sing the K-State fight song, and then go back into bawling again", or "...he would scream, but the second we would go in he would stop and say something like, 'I have boogers daddy!'". You'll have to think seriously about printing this up each year. I think you can have them bound at Kinkos. There are a ton of good stories in here and you've only been blogging for a short while. So, I know in a years time, you'll have quite a journal on your hands.
I'm so happy to know that you're all well and happy. Best wishes for a healthy, complication free birthing of Baby T3.
Thinking of you,
Sam
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