A Few New Things

Hi everyone! I just had to give you a quick CIO report, and also tell you about the interesting new things James has been up to. So, as far as James' nights go, they are getting much, much better! If we have to let him CIO, it usually doesn't take more than about 5-20 minutes of crying. I say 5-20 minutes, because it was down to NO crying, but last night was weird and he cried for 20 minutes. However, that is a huge improvement from the 1 hour of crying. AND, he even slept one full night for us this weekend! He went down at 8pm, and woke up at 7am! Yahoo! We are hoping for more nights like that.

He has also accomplished a few new things this weekend. For example, he is now pulling himself to standing on almost everything - and even stood unassisted in his crib for a few milliseconds. He has also mastered going up the stairs (preferably supervised, but he has gotten as far as 2 or 3 steps up before we noticed). Today after swimming we went on a short drive, and he fell asleep in the car. When we got home I debated whether to let him nap in the car, or if I should just wake him up and try to rock him back to sleep. I decided to wake him, but instead of waking up - he stayed asleep while I took him out! He stayed asleep on my shoulder while I brought him into the house. I gently laid him down into his crib, and his eyes opened, but only long enough for him to roll onto his tummy and go back to sleep! WOW! He must have been really tired!

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the Zoo yesterday... he looked SO cute in his new hoodie!