Jules finally got her own kid bed! After a bit of pining for the good old days of sleeping in the old bed (on our part mostly), she’s pretty comfortable sleeping there. Of course, it makes it WAY harder for us to put her down to sleep. We lasted about 4 days, and then basically told her that she needs to fall asleep herself. Marian let her cry herself down for a nap once (took about 5 minutes!). Then last night I eased her into it a bit (read outside her room and wiped her tears off a couple of times). She protested pretty hard, but she fell asleep within 30 minutes! Saved me 45 minutes of time putting her down. Then, today, she actually ASKED Marian to ‘go downstairs’ instead of helping her sleep. WTF child, holy crap. I have a feeling this time is for real.

No Ferberizing, no nothing. Just co-sleeping until she was old enough to really *understand* that she needed to sleep alone and was confident enough to do it. Utterly painless (well, putting her down to sleep the last 2000 (yup, about 2000) times wasn’t painless, but it wasn’t all bad either, some of it was pretty great). Totally awesome.