Ethan used to eat a lot in the middle of the night (about 4oz or so). Last week he stopped eating that much, so we decided it was time for sleep training. We decided on the “extinction method” (also known as “cry it out”) – we would just let him cry himself back to sleep, with no comforting from us. We steeled ourselves for two weeks of sleep deprivation.

Saturday night was the first night of training; he woke up around 2am and cried for an hour before going back to sleep.

Sunday night he did the same thing, no surprise.

Monday night he cried for about 5 minutes … did we dare to hope?

Tuesday night he also cried for about 15 minutes.

Things are looking good so far.

Next we’ll have to work on nap training. That will be harder for us because we aren’t home during the day. Ethan currently goes to bed around 9pm and wakes up around 6am, with two naps during the day. His daytime naps range from 30 minutes to 2 hours; we’d like to get those more consistently up into the 2-hr range.

Ethan is growing up! He is now able to pull himself up onto his wobbly legs:

Look to the right ...

Look to the left ...

Climb up ...

Make a break for it!

Given his eagerness to climb, we had to lower his crib mattress to its lowest setting to prevent him from crawling out of his crib and falling to the floor.

I slept through my first earthquake. According to USGS it was a 4.1, centered somewhere in East Bay.

Grandma is such a task master. Even during Christmas and New Year’s break I have to practice reading:

What a drag ...