bedtime

Elizabeth and Josiah are in the same room now. We moved Josiah in three nights ago and first of all it's AMAZING to have our room all to ourselves again! Secondly the change has been a lot easier that I thought. Ellie is still in a crib but we gave her new bedding - sheets and a fitted comforter the second night Josiah was in her room. Ever since then she wants to go to bed as soon as he is in bed - putting her p.j's on and brushing her teeth is a breeze! She isn't even bothered when he cries. We were trying to put Josiah down first and then once he's asleep put Ellie down but last night we could tell he wasn't going to go to sleep right away, so instead of waiting for him to fall asleep we put Ellie down with him awake - and crying. She did fine! We did put a cd on, Sleep Sound in Jesus by Michael Card (thanks mom!) to help drown on the noise and they both did great! Josiah is still waking up twice at night, but that is going relatively smoothly as well. Even when I didn't get in the room fast enough last night and Ellie woke up she had no problem going back to sleep.

Right now Josiah is crying off and on and I can hear Ellie talking in her crib - we'll see if they keep each other awake or I can get them both to fall asleep with out needing to pull Josiah out to rock.

The goal will CONTINUE to be one kid asleep before the next one goes to bed, but I know that won't always be possible!