Happy Thanksgiving

At our house we are thankful for a baby who sleeps again!  After having two really bad weeks of sleep, we decided that we just couldn't take it anymore.  We had decided to do some serious sleep training of the "cry it out" fashion.  We spent the day reading the book about it and started in at nap time with just doing our nap time routine and putting Sadie in her crib awake and walking away.  And after one nap that had a lot of crying...the rest of them worked.  We couldn't believe after spending HOURS rocking Sadie to sleep for every nap and every night that we could just put her down and walk away and she would fall asleep ON HER OWN.  I honestly thought this "babies who self soothe" thing was a myth.  How could it be possible when Sadie needed so much of our love and soothing to fall asleep.  Well...what she needed was for us to leave her alone and let her do it on her own.  In sometimes less time than it takes for me to leave her room and get to the baby monitor.

Now, I'm not saying she's perfect...there has been a little bit of crying.  But SO much less than we anticipated!  And the first four days of this, she slept through the night!  Which she hadn't done in weeks. We had dreams again.  It was a miracle.

Here is our little turkey who we are so incredibly thankful for this year.