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Well, I was going to write a blog entry about how terribly Luke is sleeping these days, how he is waking up for hours in the middle of the night, waking up every 2 hours from 10PM to 6, and not able to sleep during the day. I was going to write about how I follow the best sleep advice I've ever found: have an early bedtime. Then I would have complained that I really can't follow the other piece of advice that everyone gives---put your baby down sleepy but awake---Eleanor and Luke are either asleep or awake, and if they are sleepy but awake, they will go to any length to wake themselves up. I nursed Eleanor to sleep (which may have been a part of her terrible sleeping when she was younger) and I nurse Luke to sleep, which may mean that he has trouble settling himself, and that he is getting to have bad sleep habits.

I was going to write all these things, but last night he woke up only 3 times (still more than I'd like) and the last two times I put him down while he was still awake (he wasn't going to sleep in my arms) and he didn't stay awake for more than 10 minutes at a time. Go figure.

In other news, he is officially crawling. I put him down on one side of the room, he gets onto his hands and knees and moves across the floor. Time for drastic child proofing again!
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