An update......

Hey everyone... It's been a while since I have visited the blogging world! A lot has been going on in our little family, so here goes!

1. I am SOO proud of my husband because last Saturday he took the GED test and passed with flying colors! He is so excited, and now feels like there are so many more options open for him! He is totally excited to start the road to law enforcment and cannot wait until he can quit his job and do what he has always wanted to do! Yea...GO JEFF!

2. Being the idiot that I am, I thought that it would be a good idea to rock my child to sleep with a bottle every night since the day he was born, and as of late, I really put on my stupid hat and thought that instead of feeding him a bottle while rocking him back to sleep in the middle of the night (Yes, my 18 month old does not yet sleep through the night, lucky me, I know), I would just bring him into bed with us until he fell back asleep and put him back into his crib until morning.....Well, just as I was beggining to think this was a good idea, I realized that every night at 4:30 AM he was waking up and expecting to be brought into bed with mom and dad. In comes "THE CONTROLLED CRYING METHOD"... Thank God for Supernanny.com! So.......

3. Since putting this method to use ( you do a strict nightly routine, no bottles to sleep!, and you put them in the crib awake).. it has actually started working! After only three LOOOONG days and nights ( you use the method for naps to!).. Here is our new nightly schedule..

8:30 p.m bottle time.. he gets his bottle just like a normal drink, as soon as he is done with his bottle....
8:45 p.m into the bath.. this method calls for 5-10 min baths and NO TOYS!
9:00 p.m. Story time for 15 mintues
9:15 Into the crib and we say good night!
Then you go into the room every 10 minutes to let them know you are there and walk out of the room... you do this every 10 mintues until they are alseep!

The first night, he cried for 1 hr and 47 min, and I went in the room 11 times until he fell asleep
The second night, he cried for 45 minutes and I went in the room 4 times.
The third night, he cried for 20 minutes, I went in the room twice and...
TONIGHT... he cried for 10 mintues and I only went in once!!!
YEA FOR SUPERNANNY!!!!
O, yes and funny enough....he no longer wakes up in the middle of the night! My sleeping life is back :)

4. I got to go to Vegas and see my niece get baptized.. love ya Zoe! We had such a good time seeing family and friends, and just taking a nice day trip back home was nice!

5. Since my hubby will be taking a pretty big pay cut going to train and get on with the County as a corrections officer, I will be taking on full time work again. No luck finding a job yet, but I will surely need some moral support having to take my little man to day care! He has never been away from me, who knows, maybe it will be good for the both of us!

Until next blog!