7.17.2011

Going to bed.


If we were keeping score, Remy would be two, us zero. I am trying, and with more diligence than I've done a lot of things, to get Remy on a sleeping schedule. I do this not so much because I feel like I want more time to myself, but because I feel obsessed about his brain growing and retaining things while he sleeps. We have not yet been able to let him cry himself to sleep. I'm a wuss. Tonight we got him out of him crib with the double-head shake sobs and immediately he was quiet. He remains completely quiet when we get him out of his bed past his bedtime, like he knows he's not supposed to be up, and he feels a little guilty, or is trying to lay low, like maybe we won't notice the adorable, round-noggined baby in our midst. When I was little, I also was notorious for sneaking out of my bed after my parent's had gone through exorbitant (at the time unknown by me) amounts of energy and patience to get me there. I distinctly remember slinking out of bed, making myself as small as possible while going through the bedroom door so as not to move a shadow or make a creak, and nearly crawling on my stomach to my place behind the couch. I remember thinking to myself, 'man, am I going to surprise them! My parent's are going to be so excited to see me!' I really and honestly thought that. A testament to their goodness. How the tables have turned. Except, maybe I am actually going to be the undisciplined parent I was worried I was going to be, because I don't mind that Remy is up partying (quietly) with us, even when, according to the book I read, he should have been in bed hours ago.

4 comments:

Bonnie said...

That is so cute! It sounds like true parent-child love to me. I think he is still too young to cry himself to sleep. I can't bear hearing my baby cry and not try to do something about it so I don't blame you one bit.

annie (the annilygreen one) said...

yeah, i wouldn't worry till he's at least a solid 4 months old....at least that's what i read in the magical book i have (healthy sleep habits, happy child). you're such a good mom!

Bridget said...

baby books are for the birds! it is easy to get caught up in what everyone else says your baby needs, but you are the mother. You know better than they do. he is your child after all, right? so I say it is ok to take advice, but in the end it is really up to you. all you need to worry about is making him happy. besides, I think remi seems like a really happy baby. if he is happy and content, you have got to be doing something right, right?

p.s. i totally would do the same thing when i was little too.

Sofia Hoiland said...

this photograph melts my heart!