I think I might cry!

My baby is sleeping all by herself...in her own room...in her CRIB!  This has been the goal for the past few months, right???  :::sniff, sniff:::

Avi has been sleeping in her swing at night since the day we brought her home, and when she outgrew the swing we moved her to her carseat to maintain the upright position that seemed most comfortable for her due to acid reflux.  We did attempt a crib transition when she outgrew the swing, but a few sleepless nights later we just decided to embrace the carseat idea where she slept for 10-12 hours straight.  Other babies sleep in their carseats too, right?  We didn't care, at least we were sleeping. :-) 

For the past month she's been sleeping 12 hours straight almost every night.  But a few nights ago Avi decided to wake up every two hours after midnight.  The first two times she put herself back to sleep fairly quickly.  The third time I decided to go check on her (we moved her out of our room a couple weeks ago).  It's a good thing I did, because given another couple of minutes and she would have fallen out of her carseat onto the floor (the carseat snaps into the Graco swing base)...it's only a ~1 foot drop, but still.  So I got her back to sleep and put the carseat inside the crib.  That worked until morning.  The next night she again slept in the carseat which was inside the crib.  In the morning when I heard her normal happy chattering over the monitor I went in to get her and she was out of the carseat, laying sideways in the corner of the crib!  Goodbye carseat sleeping...

The next two nights were not fun for Daddy.  I was at work.  Let's just say they both only got about 5 hours of sleep each night.  She has proved that she is capable of sleeping 12 hours straight, she just doesn't like sleeping in her crib.  Last night I got cancelled, so we decided to do her bedtime routine like normal and put her to bed in her crib and see how long it took her to go to sleep. She cried off and on for 90 minutes.  It was never a frantic cry (which I would have responded to), but it was still hard to listen to.  She was in the crib by 7:19pm and the last peep I heard was at 9:12pm.  Scott and I tiptoed in together to see her before we went to bed around 10:30 and she was snoring away.  We probably looked ridiculous, haha. But she didn't wake up until right before 6am!!  And if she did she didn't make enough noise to wake me up over the monitor (and it doesn't take much). 

Tonight she didn't cry at all.  I put her to bed in the exact same way.  I kissed her goodnight, laid her down, and she immediately rolled onto her side and reached for her seahorse (which I had turned on) and started talking to it.  She was asleep within 10 minutes and still is (almost 3 hours later).  We've heard two momentary cries over the monitor, but she's gone back to sleep very quickly.  I just peeked on her:



My Sleeping Monkey

 :::Big Sigh:::  Our baby is growing up!!  Which I know sounds silly to say at 5 1/2 months, but I looked at Scott tonight and said "She's sleeping by herself!  In her crib!"  This is so weird.  This is what we wanted, right?  

So my baby is sleeping in her own bed all night long, has two teeth, can sit up pretty well by herself, is rolling all over the place, can scoot backwards, can get up on her hands and knees and rock, laughs a LOT, has a ticklish spot right under her ribs (found that today!), is eating bananas, peaches, pears, sweet potatoes, avocado, rice and oatmeal......

Where did my baby go????????????