Dear Parker

Dear Parker,

Ever since we brought you home from the hospital you have worked your way up to a pretty good sleep schedule all on your own. It started with 3 hours stretches, to 5, then 8 and now you're up to almost 11 hours a night. The only down fall (for me)  ...  you not going to sleep until after 11pm every night and sleeping in way late in the mornings. My goal is to get you on a more normal sleep schedule. Say.... 9pm-8am. Well, this morning you decided you were ready to get up earlier than normal, around 7am. So this got Mommy thinking. If you wake up earlier and have your first bottle earlier, than that must mean that you will take your last bottle of the night earlier and go to sleep earlier. Right? It was worth a shot. You did take a bottle earlier and you did go to sleep in your bed earlier... but you only stayed asleep for 30 minutes. Then you were wide awake again. So, we had another bottle... and you fought going back to sleep for close to 45 minutes.... and finally you were asleep again at 10:50 which is before 11:00. Baby steps. It's a work in progress, but we'll get there. :)

Love,
Mommy