Monday, November 8

So I am not going to get excited because this has happened before. The boys got up at 7 am and then went down for their first nap at 9 am. Crossing my fingers and hoping that they have a good long sleep but know that it may not happen. They feel asleep nicely too. It was not a lot of crying a little fussing and that was nice. The fussing to sleep kind which means they were ready for a nap and happy to go to sleep.

Saturday November 6 (Almost 7 months)

Emmitt and Everett are almost 7 months old and they are still so on and off. We did the whole sleep training thing over the summer after they were 3 months old. We laid them down and let them learn how to self soothe and fall asleep without us. I don't know if it is because they go from one cold to another or if it is because they are not good sleepers or if it is something we are doing.

My problem is when we lay them down and for how long they sleep. Sometimes they go to sleep right away and then other times they cry for 5 - 20 sometimes very rare 40 minutes and then fall a sleep. There does not seem to be any consistency. We lay them down when they seem tired which is usually after 1 and 1/2 hours and we try to push it to 2 hours but sometimes don't make it. They are happy sometimes when they wake up and sometimes they are crying. One usually wakes up before the other and we usually only get about 1 hour... sometimes (very rarely they sleep or one sleeps for 1 and 1/2 hours). If they don't sleep for one hour I would say the other 40 percent of the time they sleep for 45 minutes. I wouldn't mind if they were cat nappers but then they get very fussy sooner because they didn't not have a good sleep. We don't go and get them right away... we always wait a little to see if they go back to sleep but if we let it go it usually turns into an all out scream fest and they are so worked up when we finally go get them that they have to be nursed or they won't calm down.

As for nights they go okay...we have had some really good ones where they go until 5 am and then they go and get sick again and start waking up more. They only have really bad nights every once and a while when they wake every 3 hours most times they only wake twice or three times in 12 hours. I don't think this is tooooo bad. I don't know if people think that I am just focusing on the bad but I am going to record how they go to sleep and what we are doing so I can keep track of what is going on.