New Year = Baby Boot Camp!

Okay, so baby boot camp is beginning for us this week! Wells turned 5 months today! yeah!! Happy Five months Wells. So Chris and I decided it's time for sleep. We feel like we are at our witts end and have tried everything to get our sweet little guy to nap and sleep at night. We had come really close to sleeping all night (yes, i know sleeping through the night is technically 6-8 hours) from 7-7 with small wake ups for the paci. Then on December 23rd we got the dreaded ear infections with congestion. It's still going on. Poor Wells failed two medicines and is now on his third and still pretty stopped up. So all the sleeping work has gone down the tubes and sweet thing couldn't breathe so he would wake up all night long and eating was the only way to pacify him. We truly haven't slept (any of us) in a couple of weeks. Wells is a little better today and we are praying his ears are clearing up. So...it's off to work we go. We are doing the "Baby Whisperer Method" of letting him cry for 10 minute segments and going to put in the paci and pat him down to calm him. We are doing this for naps and all through the night. We wanted to wait until he was totally well of course and we are starting today. Well, needless to say, it's already been really tough. We started this morning and it took 40 minutes, only to get a 30 minute nap out of it. Then Church threw us all off, but of course it's worth it! Then we did it again for two more 30 minute naps this afternoon. Well, tonight poor Chris did it alone while I went to the grocery store and I returned home to Chris in bed with a pillow on his head telling me that he was going to bed (it was 8 o'clock) and that he thinks one child is enough! And this is just the beginning folks!! We are expecting it to take all week and maybe more, but in the end I feel it will all be worth it. He has just not loved sleep since day one, but we all need it and we are totally exhausted all the time. So my need from friends is prayer for patience, prayer for Wells to learn to put himself to sleep when he wakes up in the middle of the night, prayer for more sleep for us all, and prayer for Chris and I as we go through this really tough time. On top of all of this my sister is getting induced tomorrow...Yeah!!!!!!! We can't wait to find out what she is having. So happy new years to everyone and I'll keep you posted!!