One of the things that I am TOTALLY grateful for is sleep. My babe is completely on board with that as well. He sleeps for a straight 8-10 hours every night. It's usually between 11pm-1am that he falls alseep for good. However. I fall asleep without fail between 11-12. It doesn't matter what I am doing, I will fall asleep. It's happened while I'm nursing, eating, watching a movie, holding a screaming child, pumping, reading, seriously. It doesn't matter.
When that happens Jose will just let me sleep. He will come and take Luca from me and play with him and feed him until he is ready to sleep too, and then will put him in his crib for the night and then he gets to go to bed.
Because he does this for me, I let him sleep in the morning, and I get Luca up and fed. I feel like I totally have the better end of the deal because Luca doesn't wake up until between 8-9:30 and by then I am rested and ready for the day!
It works out very well for us because Jose is completely a night owl and I am so not a night person. I get mean and cranky and snappy. I really need my sleep. I never thought I was a morning person but I have learned that that term fits better. I don't wake up singing--but once I'm up, I'm up and it doesn't bother me too much. Jose is opposite there too. He isn't a cranky pants in the morning but he is silent and won't talk for a few hours, and gets irritated more easily.
For this, I am grateful he doesn't have a reason he has to get up super early and actually needs to go to sleep at a decent time.
I know I need to work on my child's timing, and start the long stretch earlier, but for now I am satisfied. And if he wants to sleep this long, I don't care when he goes to sleep.
He does so many things with his hands all the time. He loves them. This is my favorite.
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