Big EXCITING Changes

There are 2 big changes going on at our home right now.....

We accepted a contract on our house this weekend and put a contract on a home we hope to purchase. We still have appraisals, inspections, and a bunch of paperwork to get through, but if all goes well we will be moving in April! (It's only been about 48 hours, but I'm already enjoying the fact that I don't need to keep my house in perfect order for showings now. We let some dishes pile up in the sink last night and just stood back and smiled!)

Equally( if not more) exciting is that Xavier is FINALLY going to sleep on his own now at night. It only took 14 MONTHS for this to happen! We've had almost a full week of this new routine and it's going really well. X had been a "rock me to sleep or I'll scream my head off forever" kind of kid up until this point. We started noticing recently that he was extremely restless while being rocked. We thought this might be his way of saying he's ready to be in the crib where he can move around and get comfy. So, we cautiously tried it one night by giving him his bottle, rocking him for a minute or two, then putting him in the crib. Success! He cried for about 15 seconds, then rolled around silently for a good 25 minutes, and finally went to to sleep. As the week progressed the time it took for him to actually get to sleep has decreased. He might cry for a minute once he's been in there a bit and I go back in and lay him down and sing a quick song. Some nights he hasn't made a sound and just went to sleep. It sure beats rocking a 25lb squirmy kiddo for 30 minutes until he finally wears out!

Say a prayer for us that X keeps his new bedtime routine and that we have smooth sailing with all this house stuff!

(Sorry, no pictures today -- I'm working from the laptop)