Nap time in the crib!

I have decided that it is about time to start trying to get Laila on a little bit more of a schedule. I'm starting small - making sure we don't sleep past a certain time in the morning, making a concerted effort to get her to sleep at the same time every night, and trying to get her to nap at about the same time every day. This is all a lot harder than it sounds. Part of making this work is creating a bed time ritual. I know I should probably have been doing this already, but oh well. The ritual: wrap her up and read her a book or two. I've read her books and wrapped her for bed before, but the book reading isn't consistent and the swaddling usually only happens at night. I'm also hoping to start getting her used to her crib instead of her co-sleeper since soon she will outgrow it. I figured I'd start putting her down at nap time. I've put her down a few times before while she was sleeping but she always (always!) wakes up almost immediately - ugh. But it needs to happen.

So - today is day one. Usually she takes her first nap anywhere between 12:30 and 2:30, depending on how she slept the night before. She slept great last night (thank God!), and she didn't start to show signs of tiredness until about 2:30... so I wrapped her up and read her "Harry the Dirty Dog" and she fell asleep right away! It was amazing. I held her for quite a while to make sure she was good and asleep, and then I put her down in her crib. And guess what! She's still asleep!!!! It's so exciting! YAY! I know tomorrow she will probably not fall asleep during book reading and will probably wake up when I put her in the crib, but at least it is working today - that means there is hope for the future!