It is Possible

For a 3 mo old
breastfed baby
to sleep through the night

Kacen fell asleep last night while eating at about 8:40. He got laid down in his crib at about ten o'clock. Nope I didn't go to bed yet, I did some laundry and took a shower! :) And got ready some food for Paul for when he got home. I was awakened at 2:03 a.m., but wait, NO this was not Kacen. It was my almost two year old Abbigail staring wide eyed at her Mommy (she was sitting on my bed right next to me, not making a sound.). I fed her, gave her a drink, changed her and noticed her fever so I gave her some tylenol and put her back to bed. But while I was doing that Alona looks up at me with her sleepy eyes, "Mom, what are you doing?". So she had to have a bagel, milk and go to the bathroom too! I got back to sleep at about 2:43 and then a hungry little Kacen woke up at 5:40! Yeppers the math is correct, our Little Guy slept 9 hours. I would have really enjoyed getting close to the same, maybe next time he does this Abbi won't be sick, poor thing. It was weird Kacen had slept so long, waited so long to eat I wished that he was even hungrier! Another big milestone.

It happened

Alona ate mashed potatoes for the first time in her life! Even as a baby she would spit them out in disgust. When given to her for dinner with other things and asked to eat, she wanted to eat the potatoes! She did so willingly without coercion!!

Only Once

This will be their firsts only once, so I figured that I shouldn't pass up writing about it. I don't remember it being so difficult with Alona or Abbi, Alona especially having them sleep in a new room. I figured that it was about time. I love that little guy so much and I am so comforted with him sleeping just at the edge of my feet, knowing that he is there and that he is safe. I am SO attached! So last night was his first night of many in his crib. I kept thinking of reasons to keep him in our room, not having the monitor hooked up yet, his room is too cold, etc. They always look so tiny in those things when they first start off. He did great! He went to bed around 12:30 and then he woke up some time between three and five (I was too tired to remember.) But then I fell asleep holding him in my bed. I am so amazed that I can fall asleep so easily while holding him and I keep holding him while I sleep, I don't drop him or let go or anything! So he slept with me until about six and then went back to his crib for a little more than an hour. Tonight he didn't want to go to sleep he fell asleep and woke up four different times and finally fell asleep around 10:45, woohoo!

Okay so for the other first...Abbi went to the dentist for the first time today. She was wonderful! Better than I could have imagined. They asked her to open her mouth, Okay so she really didn't open, but she let them insert bite wings and allowed them to take x-rays while staring at them blankly! She allowed the dentist to put a mirror with a bright light into her mouth, move it around and count her teeth. I was holding her in my lap with her head in the dentists arms and she was holding my hands and quite content.

When Alona was that age and I took her to the dentist she bit down, would not open her mouth and clung to me like no other. The dentist barely got to see Alona's teeth at that age let alone count them. Alona is still a booger, I had to lift her into the chair. She was dragging her feet and complained when they put bite wings in her mouth.