Wow. Today's naps have been wonderful! I've been braining on how we would settle Caleb when he wakes up or stirs because what we've been doing is turning on the hair dryer and since my mom is coming today and she'll be sleeping in that room, I didn't think she'd appreciate us running the blow dryer at all times. We have this rainforest thingy in his crib and I wondered if the nature sounds would work with putting him to sleep. This morning after he woke up and ate at 5 a.m. (Tom's right...no matter what time we last feed him, he's going to always wake up at that time, it seems!), he wasn't going back to sleep...just looking around and fussing a little bit as I carried and bounced him. Well, being the selfish mommy that I am, I decided that I had enough of it and wanted to see what he would do if I just put him down and put that thing on....so I did....and he went back to sleep. So for his two naps today, I wanted to see if it would work. I made his room dark, turned on the fan, and put him down in the crib with the nature noises on. Both times he would fidget around and make little noises, but no busting into cries or anything like that. After about 10-15 minutes, he was out. AMAZING. I feel kind of bad cuz part of me feels like I should be rocking him and cuddling him, but at the same time, part of me wants to have him be able to independently fall asleep. Because of his good naps I was able to pack Dave's stuff up (no small feat, let me tell you!), AND wipe down my kitchen floor (which still feels freakin' sticky so I dunno if it's my sticky feet or if I'm just needing to do a scrubby kine scrub down).

We'll see if this works tonight...for some reason, though, I'm thinking it won't. It's just cuz in the evening he's super duper fussy and screaming and raging like a maniac and I don't think the nature sounds are going to do crap when he's at that stage. Maybe having good naps today will help him not get to that stage, though. Or maybe because my mom will be here he'll know there's another person around and do his "faking good boy" routine like he always does when we're around others! LOL. That's why everybody thinks I'm LYING cuz he seems like such a good boy! Nah, he's getting a lot better....no more throwing him out the window feelings anymore...shucks, I shouldn't have said that cuz now he's going to give us a freakin' maniac episode like we've never seen before! I always talk too soon....