Happy (Belated) Mother's Day

With Kim on the mend from her "pinched nerves" that was causing her extreme lower back pain last week, the weekend was spent with me doing most of the hefting of the Boys on Friday and on Saturday night. On Sunday Kim started to lift again as she is alone Monday and wanted to make sure she could handle it, and on Saturday day we visited the family in Seely's Bay.

The boys continue to express no interest in learning to walk. For Lukas it seems to be an attention span thing; he can try and stand up but he becomes too excited when we encourage him to walk over to us and goes down to a crawl to get us faster. For Sean it seems more like an apprehension of falling. Regardless, they are getting more steady on their feet all the time and I'm sure it will be a sudden event one day soon.

We started sleep training the boys this weekend. We decided that they were old enough to learn to comfort themselves to sleep as it was really starting to eat up a lot of time in the evenings getting them to bed, but more distressingly they were getting more agitated when waking up in their cribs and finding us not there.

The first night was with Lukas, putting him in his crib while still awake. I was ready for an hour or more of wailing but after 20 minutes silence. We did the same with Sean in the playpen in our room and he had 5 minutes or so of crying before settling down.

The next night we put them both down, together in their own cribs in the same room, while awake. Surprisingly the crying stopped after only ten minutes. On Sunday we did it for the morning and afternoon naps as well as bed time and found that the crying from Lukas ended very quickly all three times, and Sean was a little more upset for a couple minutes. To be fair, at one naptime they stopped crying fast but played in their cribs for about 5 minutes, chattering to themselves.

We are both surprised how well Lukas is taking to this project so far. Our working theory is that the presence of his brother has a comforting affect on him when getting ready to go to sleep; he knows he is not alone thus feels safer and not abandoned. We'll see if the trend continues but after three nights I think we are in a good position.