Sleep, glorious sleep

For basically the past month, Isaac has adopted a more forgiving sleep schedule than in months (years?) past. Longtime followers of this blog will recall that my boy is a HORRIBLE sleeper, and that we have had many fights with him about not just staying asleep, but also going to sleep.

Well, those days are gone, perhaps due to him being older, and our discovering that he only requires 9 hours of sleep a night. At 9:30, Isaac and I do our little sleep dance and as if on cue he yawns and rubs his eyes. I put him in bed, cover him up with a nice warm blanket, and place his blue doggy near him. He reaches out to scoop doggy tight under his armpit. I leave the room, and we don't hear another peep. The whole process takes less than 3 minutes. And he stays that way until 6 or 6:30 in the morning, unless he wriggles his head into a crib-corner or wiggles out from under the covers in the middle of the night. Case in point was two nights ago, at 3:30, a "Mama mama mama mama" from his room, not so much horrible wailing, but plaintive asking. I went in to see what's up, and he was standing at the corner of his crib nearest the door. When he saw me, he flopped back down on the mattress in his usual "I'm going to sleep now position", clearly indicating that he had kicked his blanket away from a preferred position and wanted me to replace it on his poor little chilled bod. I put it back on him, left the room, and didn't hear from him again until **8:15**.

So, even better, it appears that he is working his way into a later wake-up time. Dada discovered serendipitously last week that, if Isaac wakes up between 6 and 6:30, he can usually be rocked back to sleep until 8 or 8:30. If this is a trend....think of the possibilities!!!!

And now that I've blogged about this, surely I have cursed it and the delicious sleep-nectar will run dry.