Emma's Sleep Training Progress

Night 3 was slightly different from night 2 but painless. E came out soon after I left but then didn't come out for a last time until about 10 minutes later. That was it.

But, last night.... I was at Targrt yesterday and saw a natural, nighttime cough medicine called Zarbees. She's got a cold. She has a cough. She doesn't sleep through the night so why not give it a try? The instructions said to give it 30 minutes before bed. She was out within 20 minutes. The best part - she didn't get up till 515am. Ok, that doesn't sound that great. It is, after all, super early, but I would consider that an entire night of uninterrupted sleep. Pretty amazing, especially since she has not slept through the night in probably 3 months.

We might have to try this Zarbees magic again tonight. :)

Oh, but it does seem she woke up too early. Check out this picture of her passed out in the car.




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Chopsticks

Both kids are getting pretty good at using their training chopsticks.







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Day 2 of Emma's Sleep Training

5 minutes and 2 trips out of her crib. It was kind of unbelievable. I had to sit outside her door for an extra 10 minutes to make sure.

And, T has been letting Daddy put him to bed too.

Crazy.


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Emma's Back to Sleep Training

Towards the end of 2013, Emma started to want someone to stay with her in her room to fall asleep. It's was no fun. Especially because she use to just let us put her in her crib, roll over, and go to bed. But, since we were going to go on a lengthy vacation that involved some serious jet lag, we decided to let it go and deal with it once we returned.

It's now been over a month since we have been back from our Asia vacation and someone has stayed in her room every night until she falls asleep and she has been coming into our room in the middle of the night and we have welcomed her into our bed because it is the easy thing to do.

No more. We are done. We haven't gotten a full nights sleep in too long so tonight sleep training commenced.

For about an hour I stayed outside her door and every time she came out I would escort her back to her crib. Not sure how many times we did this - maybe 15? She is a persistent little gal.

Hoping that as the nights go by this exercise will be shorter and shorter. And as she figures out how to go to sleep on her own at night she will figure out how to put herself back to sleep in her crib in the middle of the night.

Keeping fingers crossed. What else can we do? Oh - wish for sleep.


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Tyler's 4 Year Check Up

41 1/4 inches (80 percentile) and 38 lbs (75 percentile). That's how big T is now. Growing well, full of energy, and personality. He's a strong kid in all respects and can be a challenge, but we love him as does Emma (who would do whatever he does but she is also rough with him).

Need to do an update on his birthday and birthday party but for now here he is getting some vaccinations. He was tough.

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When Daddy Works late...

He sends the kids a picture like this:




The kids send back a picture like this:




Silly kids. :)

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Partying by Himself

Tyler went to his first drop off birthday party and had a blast.

His classmate, Maya, had her 4th birthday party at My Gym in San Carlos tonight. Being that it's Friday evening, Daddy wasn't going to be home early enough to watch Emma, but we were told kids could be dropped off so we ran the idea by T and he was game.

I was still a little concerned that he might not want me to leave when we got there, but the minute we arrived he was ready to play. He left my side with just a quick bye.

Poor Emma. She wanted to also stay and play but instead we went to check out the nearby Korean restaurant. The food was pretty good, Emma loved it, and we learned to play some new games together. It was a nice date.

When we went back to pick T up the party had been extended by about 30 minutes and the kids were just sitting for cake. Of course, Emma wanted some, and T was happy to share. He was also happy to leave half his cake to go back and play. Emma was in heaven. She didn't care to play, she just wanted cake.



Party crasher. :)

It's nice to watch T becoming an independent guy, making friends, and enjoying them. He's a pretty social kid and I hope he always stays that way.

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