Day 3: Sunday Night

Another fun-filled, action-packed day today. We hung out with Dwo and Crystal -- at home making breakfast, at the mall shopping, and at sushi buffet! I haven't had real sushi (and a lot of it) since when I first found out I was pregnant, so I definitely enjoyed myself tonight. I gave myself a little treat by taking a nap with Claire earlier as well. I know, I should be sleep training her for naps, too ... but I figure that since I don't see her during the day much, I'll let her wonderful teachers at school deal with that little problem. :)


Okay, so for the meat of it ... it's 15-20-30 tonight ... here we go:

• 9:00pm - Super-tired from playing a bunch (Claire LOVES bubbles), we do bath, books, bottle, and cuddling. We say goodbye to Dwo and Crystal who are headed back for Austin and cuddle some more.
• 9:30pm - Eye rubbing and droopy eyes galore, Claire's ready for bed. This time, she wastes no time figuring it out and starts crying as soon as I lay her down in her crib! We hurry out and set the timer -- 15 minutes.
• 9:40pm (10 minutes into the 15 minutes) - The screaming crying is just complaining exclamations now. It's like she's saying, "hey! you! this is annoying! meanies!" but at least not yelling at the top of her lungs.
• 9:42pm (12 minutes into the 15 minutes) - Silence. Asleep. Seriously. AND her head is turned to the side, AND I can see it in the video monitor clearly. Wowsers.
• 10:20pm - Wakes crying, softly at first, then in more earnest. I set the timer -- 15 minutes.
• 10:28pm (8 min into the 15 min) - Asleep again.
• 10:33pm (11 min into the 15 min? Or should it be a new 15 min?) - Up and crying again, but it's not bad. Just her yelling.
• 10:37pm - We go in there, but even as we're approaching the crib, we realize the crying is just her calling out but not actual cries. We sneak back out to watch her on the video monitor without alerting her to our presence.
• 10:42pm - She's managed to make her way to the other end of the crib, but she's quiet and appears to be asleep.
• 11:24pm - Up again. I set the timer just to be consistent (15 minutes), but I think I'll just wait to see if her crying escalates to needing to console her. I'm thinking no, though.
• 11:30pm (5 min into the 15 min) - Asleep. I'm thinking that maybe I stop timing and just go with the gut for these night wakings. Or maybe don't time until the crying out becomes all-out crying. Also thinking maybe I should try and go to sleep.
• 1:40am - Maybe I'm the one that needs sleep training. How come I can't take advantage of this and sleep?! I miss aving Claire's little warm body next to mine and being able to snuggle up. :( Okay, okay, here I go to try the whole sleep thing again.

The final tally (at least until 1:40am):

• Time to sleep: 12 minutes (-10 min from last night)
• Times woken up in night: 2
• Times we had to go in: 0 (we did once, but we didn't HAVE to)

Tomorrow is 20-30-30, and then we'll just do 30 min for now on. Hopefully (crossing fingers) it doesn't matter since we never even got to the "20" from the 15-20-30 intervals tonight.