Monumental Sleep Stuff

For over a week now, we have had two sleeping kids in their own bedrooms!

Avery's first night away from me was difficult.  Wayyy more difficult on me than Avery.  She slept peacefully through the night.  I tossed and turned, kept thinking I heard her in the monitor or kept checking the bassinet, only to find it empty (which caused my heart to drop for a split second every time until I remembered she was in her room).  I laid awake the next morning, just waiting for her to wake up.  

I remember Rudy's first night in his crib.  I slept on the floor in his room.  I did better this time, at least!  But come on.  My baby has been either in me or next to me every night for 15 months.  That's a long time!  

It's very surreal to me to walk down that hallway, with their doors right next to each other, as I put the second one down for the night.  I can't quite soak in the fact that I have two beautiful, amazing, perfect, sweet babies right behind those doors.  My heart and soul hangs outside my body in those two rooms.  I don't know how I got so lucky.  My love for them is so deep, I honestly don't know how to even put it into words.  No matter what I go to write, it doesn't seem to do my feelings justice.  

But back to the monumental stuff... 

Not only is Avery in her crib, but Rudy has been sooooo much easier and quicker to put to sleep (naps and bedtime included).  There are times he is awake when we lay him down and he doesn't even cry, and then falls asleep on his own.  The first time it happened, John came back to the living room after putting Rudy down and said, "That was monumental.  I was rocking Rudy and he was squirming so I asked him if he wanted to lay in his crib, he nodded his head yes, so I laid him down, put his blanket over him, walked out, and he didn't cry!"  When he wakes up in the morning, he even plays for awhile before yelling for us to come get him.  Some mornings John and I watch in the monitor and crack up.  He babbles, reads books, stacks his pillows and jumps on them, gives his stuffed animals kisses... 

And even more monumental, Rudy and Avery have not woken each other up yet!  I almost don't even want to put that in writing for fear that I will jinx it.  But the times Rudy has cried and screamed while Avery was in her room sleeping, she didn't budge.  And in the mornings when Avery wakes up before Rudy, she or I going to get her, has not bothered Rudy yet either.  It's unbelievable.  

...so there's hope we will get back to sleeping at night again!

(I really really really really really really ...really hope I didn't just jinx us with this post!)