Successes and Nurturing B-bear

I have been meaning to blog about this for a while now, but James is finally back to sleeping through the night!!

For two weeks now, James has been sleeping all night long again...even waking up later, because of this wonderful creation that I made up below...

I completely give God the credit, because this lightbulb only went off in my head after praying about the problem for a while one night as I waited on him to go to sleep.  It seemed too easy, but it worked like a charm!  Only one night in the past two weeks has he come into our room in the middle of the night, and I think that was just a random thing.  There are more details to this plan that I didn't want to bore you with, so if you are in the same predicament and are interested in hearing it, let me know and I'll tell you how we did it.  We are slowly phasing him off of needing this and will eventually remove it completely.  Anyways, we are so happy to be all sleeping through the night again!

I love to watch James interact with his "B-bear". He will boss him around, introduce himself to him, get him to kiss me, and other funny things like that. In the picture above, he told me, "Mama, take peek-ture of B-bear."  

I picked up this basket one day last week with his blanket on top and thought it was so sweet when I found his B-bear underneath! I asked Josh if he did that with him, and he said no. This morning, he layed B-bear into the basket and put his blanket on top while saying, "Shhhhh!!!!" I am loving seeing his nurturing side come out, especially since he will have a baby brother in just a couple of months!

We have also been pleased at how James has responded to the cutting back of the paci. When we moved him into his big boy bed a month ago, we told him that he could only have his paci at naptime and nighttime. He wasn't one who needed it in his mouth all day, so he adjusted really well to that. Right away, he even started giving it to me, very proudly, when he would wake up. Some days, when he wakes up in an extra bad mood, we let me "wake up" with it for about 15 minutes, but he's very into giving it back to us to put up now.

I asked my doctor last week if we could continue letting him do this for a while (maybe until he's adjusted to having a little brother), since it's working so well for us, and he said he definitely didn't think there would be any problem with that! He said since he doesn't keep it in his mouth all night long, there shouldn't be any problems with getting rid of it later. We were so happy to hear that!

Not much else is going on with us right now. I am finally 30 weeks pregnant and sooo happy to be 3/4 of the way there! In two weeks I'll get an ultrasound to make sure he is still growing normally. I still feel very much at peace about it. I definitely can FEEL that he's growing in there!! We put the crib back up to the top position yesterday, and we are so anxious to see our next little baby in there! I will let you know how everything goes after my ultrasound!