Yesterday we visited my parents, and my mom gave Caleb a new Bible. I was more excited than he was :)
It is so pretty and colorful, and Caleb loves to look at it!Praise the Lord, my dear Caleb now has a “routine” for going to sleep. In the beginning it was hard, because he didn’t want to sleep alone in his crib and he cried in his room while I cried outside his room :)
But we finally found a way to put him to sleep.The “routine” that we follow with Caleb is this: I feed him at approximately 6:30 p.m., and when he finishes we bathe him in warm water, which he loves! After that we put on his nighttime lotion and get his jammies on. We take him to his room and I read him the Bible, then Robert prays with him and gives him his goodnight kiss. Then I sing him “mi pequeñita luz” (“This Little Light of Mine”) for a little bit, give him his goodnight kiss, and lay him down in his crib. With his pacifier, blankie and instrumental music, he falls asleep in a little bit. We try to put him to bed before 8 p.m., but if he’s not very tired and in a very bad mood, it can be hard to keep him on schedule, but we try to do the best we can. Even when we aren’t sleeping at home, which happens a lot, we stick with his routine and he is always able to sleep. At 10:30 p.m. (approx.) I feed him for the last time, and he eats very sleepily and then doesn’t wake up until the next day (between 6 and 7 a.m.).
I feel so lucky that our Caleb sleeps the whole night, knowing that there are many babies who wake up in the early hours of the morning.
Just because Caleb goes to sleep early doesn’t mean that we sleep more; we almost always go to bed after midnight. I always say “tonight I’m going to bed earlier,” but it never works. I think it’s because when Caleb is sleeping at night, I take advantage of that time to do the things that I can’t do when he’s awake.
It’s funny, my son has a good sleeping routine but I don’t, hahaha.
I think I should work on that!
