Is it me?

Lately, we have been working on getting Brody to sleep through the night without waking up to eat like normal babies do. He seemed to do well waking only around 1 am and then around 4 am and then waking for the day around when Brylie woke around 7 am. This started to become an issue for me when I worried (there I go again) that Brylie would wake up at one of those times ready and insistent on being awake for the day when in fact, we still had much needed sleep to get. So we struggled through his waking up and then I just moved Brody into our bedroom in the Pack 'n Play so that I didn't have to worry about Brylie. That just left Brad to get less sleep and then have to be in school at full gear all day long and study into the night. And I wasn't getting the most restful sleep either. So I decided to make Brody cry it out. This was 4 days before Brad went back to school in August so we knew we had to make it work and fast. So here we are about 6 weeks later with Brody sleeping in his own bed, Brylie in her own bed, they go to bed at the same time and just have to deal with the other fussing except that they really don't fuss that much...now. Granted, it took about 4 weeks to get Brody to figure out it's easier to go to sleep than cry hoping that he would be rescued, which rarely happened. So now here it is 8:11 pm and both kids are in bed asleep and have been for 1/2 hour and it took Brody about 1 minute to fuss, calm down and go to sleep. My question is, do we just have awesome kids? Or is it me and Brad and our awesome parenting skills? I don't know about you, but I think it's both!

If you're happy and you know it...

We have a sitter...

And all I can say is how dang cute he looks! I am so amazed how quickly kids learn how to stabilize the necessary muscles in just a day or so. There were a few times today that I put him on his bum away from everything he might bang his head or other body parts on if he tipped over and just let him practice and he was on his bum for about 5 minutes. He has become stable over the last day and now he can sit. I remember when Brylie started to do more which I loved but I also seem to think about all the possible falls and tumbles that can occur and I worry. Just another chance to stress up my life. I do it to myself, you know. Don't worry, (ha ha, I'll do it for you) I'll get over it soon. Here are some pictures. Isn't he getting so big?