I'm hesitant to write a post about this because it seems that everytime I blog, whatever I say in my post becomes the opposite of what I've said! I don't want to jinx all my new found sleep :) but here goes.
       Our house only has 2 bedrooms upstairs. There used to be one for Ty and one for us. Then Stevie was born and that meant he would need to sleep in our room with us. I mean, how do you trust your 21 month old (at the time) to be alone in the same room as your newborn baby? That means Stevie has  been roomin' with us for the past 7.5 months. I knew eventually we would have to move the baby in with Ty, but when? I was afraid Ty might try to share his bottle or try to get in his crib with him and land on top of him or that one of them would cry and wake the other one up. But lately none of us have been sleeping. Our typical night goes as follows: We go to sleep and about an hour later Stevie will wake up to eat, then as I'm falling back asleep Ty will wake up to go potty.  Then Stevie will wake up again a few hours later and then Ty again. Then John will get up for work then both kids wake up an hour later and I feel like I have been up the entire night! I just want ONE good night of sleep!
I had asked Ty a couple of times if we should move Steven in his room and every time I asked he would say no. But I've been realizing lately that it is harder to wake Ty up then to keep him asleep. Apparently he is a heavy sleeper like me! So one day we just switched his room around to fit Stevie and laid Stevie down for a nap. It's much darker in Ty's room so he slept longer than usual. I told Ty that we had moved Stevie in there and he didn't say much. Then he came up to me and said, "I want to go to bed." It was cute but I said, "Sorry bud, we need to let Stevie sleep." He kept asking me if he could go in there. He was so excited that the baby was in his room. It was sweet. So that night I got the baby down for bed then went in a little later to get Ty down and told him we needed to be really quiet so we didn't wake him up. He kept saying, "shhh..be quiet." Then he got in bed and went right to sleep! I thought for sure the first week or two would be a big adjustment with even longer nights but I've never had so much sleep! They've both been napping awesome and sleeping though the night! Last night Steven slept for 12 HOURS. TWELVE. He has never slept more than 6 or 7 and that was on a very lucky night!  This is a miracle. I keep kicking myself for not doing it sooner! It occurred to me today that Stevie probably woke up so much in the night because of me! I've had the worlds worst allergies since march which means I've been super congested and cannot breathe. So at night I've become a super loud snorer! The poor thing, I hadn't thought of that being the reason before. He's probably loving all this sleep. He's been so happy. And Ty loves having  his brother in there with him! He's been such a good listener and been so quiet and he has been sleeping all through the night also. He probably hated being alone in there. I feel bad for all of us that it took so long to make the switch! I feel so blessed this week! I love my babies. I can't wait for them to be able to really play together. Ty will love having a built in buddy! Love you boys!