What a busy week!

It's Saturday night and Joey is completely wiped out from the busy week that he's had. We spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week at Mima's house in San Antonio and had some excellent playtime with the whole family. While we were there, Joey rolled over from his tummy to his back for the first time!

Here's Joey with Uncle John and Aunt Julie, cousins Beth and Maggie and Aunt Katie at Los Barrios (yummy!)

Here's Joey just enjoying himself at Mima's house. He's also really happy because mommy let him stop tummy time once he rolled over.

I've been trying desperately for the last two days to capture a video or a picture of Joey rolling over. But of course it never happens when a camera is around. So instead here's a picture of Joey desperately trying to roll himself from his back onto his stomach. The big guy isn't quite there yet, but he looks like he's getting close.

We also started the Ferber method this weekend to teach Joey how to fall asleep on his own WITHOUT his pacifier (whew!). Last night was our first try and here was Joey's schedule:

7:30p.m. - put Joey down in his crib
8:15p.m. - after about 45 minutes of crying, Joey falls asleep
Midnight - Joey wakes up for the first time
12:30a.m. - after about 30 minutes of crying, Joey falls asleep again
4:30a.m. - Joey wakes up, we feed him, he falls asleep
6:30a.m. - Joey wakes up for the day

We also tried the Ferber method for Joey's naps today and amazingly enough, at 8:45a.m. this morning, we put him in his crib and he fell asleep on his own around 9:05a.m. But that's not even the amazing part. The amazing part is that he actually stayed asleep in his crib for a whole hour (for those not familiar with Joey's previous napping habits, he required a lot of rocking, bouncing and holding for naps)! We struggled more with the afternoon naps so that's still a work in progress. But we are so happy to see such quick results already and can't believe we've made it through one day without the pacifier. We'll keep you posted!