I know I keep talking in the past, but we were without Internet for a week and then I’ve been screwing around with this stupid new site for a couple weeks now and in that time I’ve had things I could have said and haven’t.

Anyway. Moving to this new house was very hard for Jaxon. It was obviously his first move, having been brought home to the other place. The day to day stuff was easy enough, but the night’s, particularly bed time,  were incredibly hard. I’m talking 3 and 4 hour fights for the first couple of nights, and then up to 2 hour fights for about a week.

It was awful for him. Even when he was tired he didn’t want to be left alone and sleep in his new room. I totally understand, in a round about kind of way. But it’s only the first night I want to talk about.

On the first night Jaxon finally went to sleep at about 11pm. But then in the quiet of the night (3am) he woke up screaming the house down. He was terrified and would not settle no matter what I did for him. So at about 4.30am I finally decided that I was cold and needed to sit down. So I walked up to the lounge room, which is across from our bedroom. Up until then, Tim had no idea this was going on, which is generally the way I like it to be. But when he finally clicked on and woke up to the noise he suggested that I bring Jaxon in to the bed with us.

Now I know that other parents do this all the time. But I have never ever ever ever had Jaxon in the bed, except to play. So this was a first. Tim is such a heavy sleeper and often I wake up to find him sprawled out half on top of me. And then me, on the other end of the scales. I’m a light sleeper and I’ve never been able to relax knowing that Jaxon is in the bed and that he could be easily smothered by either of us. But for this one occasion, I was getting pretty desperate to try something that would calm Jaxon down.

Calm him down it did. Put him to sleep, it did not. But he was quiet and that was the main thing. Tim started snoring two minutes later and that made Jaxon laugh. Since Tim needed to work in 1.5 hours after a huge move, I decided that the best thing to do would be to get up and let Jaxon sleep when he was ready to sleep. because having him laying between us was not getting ME any sleep either.

Seeing that he was up all night and the day before had been so big for him, this is was happened at 9am. Another first, because Jaxon has never fallen asleep anywhere but his cot. Not in his pram, rarely in the car seat, never at the table, never while shopping. Sleeping is for babies, or so Jaxon tell’s me.

And then THIS happened. And as I say, this never ever in a million years happens. Jaxon hasn’t slept on the couch with us, in our arms, or anything. So this was a REALLY special first for me!

Just because…

If you can’t see it clearly from the clip…