he sleeps!

Y'all.  I have to tell you.

HE SLEEPS!!!

Can you hear it?!  The HALLELUJAH chorus?  I'm not sure how or why it happened, but our boy is sleeping now through the night for a glorious 12 hours.  I have 2 people to thank for this, I think.  Jesus and Brandon.  If you have forgotten about our struggles, check out this post to remind yourself. This past weekend, I was very very close to my breaking point, so Brandon slept in the guest bedroom for 2 nights and was on full on baby duty.  He did a little sleep training thing where he would let Lucas cry for 15 minutes at a time then go in for one minute and pat his little butt and tell him to go back to sleep. (Something that we tried in the past but due to my weakness for his sad cry, I caved and it failed.)  It was a long 2 nights for him, then on the 3rd night I worked a night shift and Brandon did the same thing.  Then BAM.  We have a sleeper.  I'm not sure what was said during those father/son talks in the wee hours of the morning, or if it was just a "hey I'm almost 6 months old now so maybe it's time to sleep," but honestly I don't care, because now we are all sleeping!

Hallelujah!