Emerson was right

“There was never a child so lovely

but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

{pic is from when Shepard was about two weeks old}

We have hit a milestone! Shepard has slept through the night two nights in a row. Before you go telling me all about how they may do that once and never do it again--whatever! That's fine. At least he's done it twice, and now I know he CAN.  :)

I usually sleep with the monitor pretty close to my head because I am a heavy sleeper. I woke up at 2:15 am Monday night wondering why I hadn't heard him, checked the volume, and thought, "he'll probably wake up in about an hour, so I'll just check on him then." I heard him finally at 5:30 am!

Then, last night he ate and went down for the final time around 10:30 (after having been asleep since about 6:30 already), and slept in until about 6:15 am! I never heard a peep. The funniest thing was he somehow shimmied all the way down his snuggler (used to elevate his head) and turned completely around and was facing the other end of the crib when he woke up! I have no idea how he did that. I guess just scooting. He's not rolling yet...not all the way over. It looked like someone had picked him up and flipped him around.

In any case, I was pretty darn excited to have gotten more than 3 hours sleep all together at the same time. Now, if I could just get in bed earlier, we'd all be well-rested.