Sleeping through the Night

The most amazing thing happen this week. Pennington slept through the night for the first time. I woke up at 5:30am on Wednesday and realized that he hadn't woken up for a night time feeding. I went to check on him and found him sound asleep. He continued to sleep until I woke him up around 6:30am. Basically he slept from 8:30pm until 6:30am (10 hours straight).

I wasn't really sure why he was able to sleep for so long since he hadn't slept that long before. Come to find out the monitor had been turned off in our room so we probably didn't hear him cry when he did wake up. While Johnny and I feel really bad about the fact that we most likely ignored our little ones cries, he is sleeping through the night now and has slept through the night three nights in a row.

Last night he woke up once. I'm guessing it was because we skipped the "Bedtime Routine" since we were over at Nonie and Poppy's house until around 7:30pm. I can't believe how important a Bedtime Routine is. Our current routine consists of eating around 7:00pm, playing with Mommy and Daddy (tummy time, airplane, listening to music, ect), bath time, story time, and then lights out. If he sleeps through the night tonight I will know for sure that the Bedtime Routine helps him to sleep through the night.

Below is a picture I took on Wednesay morning when I went to wake him up from his first full night sleep. He was happy as can be. Didn't cry at all. Just smiled in delight to see that Mommy finally came to see him.