Bedtime

why is remembering to update my blog so hard lately? it seems though, that whenever my heart is full, i tend to sit at my computer and want to blog about whatever it is that is making me happy. or sad. or annoyed. or whatever it is thats on my mind. and i love that about blogging. lets talk about Self Soothing. I've never ever been the type of mom (not that there is anything wrong with it) who wanted to let my baby 'cry it out'. I mean, i could see if he were not sleeping well, or if he were difficult to get down to sleep, but he isn't. I give him a night-time bottle-he falls asleep-i lay him down asleep. Thats how our routine goes every night. And so i was happy with that. But for some reason i feel he is getting too old (yeah 11 months is OLD apparently now) to need me to rock him and feed him his bottle. So that brings me to nap time today. I said to myself "SELF! Today is the day that you will TRY". And try i did! I popped in Baby Einstein's lullaby classics and laid Deacon in his crib with his favorite stuffed animal. He immediately scooted to the cribs side and pulled down the bumper and stared at me through the rails. I wanted to give in right then and pick my baby up, but i didn't. i laid on the floor by his crib, and within 10 minutes of him crawling around and fussing just a little, he laid his sweet little head down and fell asleep. Honestly, such a simple thing, but i felt SO proud! At what age do most moms teach their kids to put themselves to sleep? Am i the only mom who has rocked their baby to sleep every single night until 11 months? Its tough to listen to him whine knowing he just wants me. Really tough. He is such a good boy. . i could go on and on and on and on about this kid. he is perfect and gosh do i love him.