Where is August going?

August is going by so fast! I seriously can't believe it's already the 14th. Our 2 year anniversary is less than a week away. Those two years went by fast, but have been great! We decided we wanted to actually go do something this year so Harvey is going to have a sleepover with Grammy Potts while we go down to Las Vegas for a night. We're really excited! We've never really been to Las Vegas so we thought it'd be a fun little overnight trip. We're going to be staying at the Stratosphere (and I am SO going to ride at least ONE of those crazy rides on top. I haven't decided which one yet.) and a dinner buffet came with our hotel room too. Then our main planned thing is going to an Area 51 exhibit in the national atomic testing museum. It's the only exhibit ever made about area 51 and it was made by people who used to work there! We are totally interested in that kind of a thing (especially after the hundreds of episodes of Star Gate) so we're pretty excited to "see what 'the truth' is behind Area 51". Oh and you can't bring cameras in to that one so you're all out of luck, but I will tell you all about it. :) Aside from that though, we haven't got much else planned. A few free things to go see and some frozen custard. A nice relaxing day.

On the Harvey news front... As many of you saw on facebook, Harvey was sleeping so awesome until he was about 4 months old. Unfortunately he got the sleep regression bug. It also didn't help that his little molar poked through the side of his gums and made him the incredible hulk baby for a few days around that time too. We figured it was just a short-lived thing, and we didn't want to start sleep training until we could be consistent with it. We were going out of town for Nick's family reunion and then just traveling around a lot in July so we figured we'd put it on the back burner and maybe he'd grow out of it. Well. He kept up his yucky sleep habits for a few weeks and I was trying everything. Crying it out with time intervals, without time intervals, rocking, walking, going outside, etc etc etc. The crying it out methods did NOT work for us at all, even after a few days of consistency it did not improve or anything. Harvey would just roll around his crib for 45 minutes to an hour, usually end up with his arm or leg poking out of the side and then scream louder. He never cried less than 45 minutes if we tried to let him cry it out and when he did fall asleep after an hour of crying, he'd only sleep 10 or 15 minutes and then wake up screaming. With the time intervals it was just the same, except we'd go in every 15 minutes one day, 20 the next, etc etc. With that, he hardly ever fell asleep and again, when he did, he wouldn't sleep long. He slept longer than he did with just crying it out, but still no more than half an hour. We needed to figure out what to do.

Well. When I took him in for his next well check/shots, our doctor (who I absolutely LOVE by the way) suggested just changing ONE simple thing. Only feed him once at night and decide when that's going to be. Have Nick put Harvey back to sleep when he can if it's not a feeding time, especially the first few nights, and then if Nick's not available, then just put him back to sleep myself. Well, within two days, Harvey was back to only waking up at 1 to eat like he was doing before. Now he's sleeping amazing. He still been waking up about an hour or two after he goes down just from being startled or natural waking or something, but Nick or I will put him back to sleep and then he'll sleep all the way to 6 or 7. YAY! It's been SO nice to get back to a good amount of sleep and without any crying too.