Rough Night

Fingers crossed that this is a short-lived phase.

As I mentioned last week, Jonathan has suddenly taken several large developmental steps forward over the last couple of weeks. The most exciting moment happened last Thursday when he started crawling.

But up until now, he hadn't been able to get himself into a sitting position from lying down. Each night we'd lay him down to sleep and each night he'd stay lying down until morning, at which point he would proclaim, "Mother, I have awakened. Please come in to retrieve me now" (translated roughly from the original Baby, "Eh, eh, eh AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!").

Saturday morning when I got that wake up call at 6:20 (thanks a lot, Monkey), I walked in to his room to find him sitting up, in the corner of his crib.

Getting into a sitting position - CHECK!

Well, that's all fine and dandy, until it comes time to go to sleep, I lay him in his crib and he realizes, "Hey, wait a minute. I don't have to take this lying down!"

Commence 40 minutes of screaming last night while on his knees, holding onto the bars of his crib. Finally Jeremy went up to rock him to sleep, a habit I DO NOT want to get into (again). He was finally asleep a little after nine, only to awaken again at eleven, at which point I rocked him to sleep, only for him to wake again as I lay him down. Happily, I guess he was so worn out that time that he didn't get back up again because he only cried for a few minutes and went to sleep.

I think he only got about nine hours of sleep last night and he usually gets eleven plus. It's going to be an interesting day at school.

I'm just hoping this is not the new normal and simply a side effect of learning this new skill that he will soon tire of.

Fingers crossed.