Major breakthrough

So Thursday I had a date with a pool and two toddlers, which was absolutely fab.  The girls although nervous at first were happy campers by the end of the morning and quite happy in the water.  Thank you to my new friends for helping to take good care of them in the pool and thank you for the use of the pool and your company.  Now during this time I had a bit of time to talk to one of the other Mom's (in fact said owner of pool).  I have to admit there have been a few events in the last couple of weeks that have made me want to do this and just seeing another child younger than mine be less fussy in a crib and able to go to sleep gave me more confidence as well.  This is going to ramble a bit but bare with me.  At Brodies bday party on the 3rd I was pretty amazed at how Sherri was able to leave him in the pack'n'go crib in the living room and not have him fuss too much.  Now he was excited but still eventually fell asleep with just being left alone, this planted the seed of thought, which I have been having awhile and kinda have been trying to do a little bit but well yeah it's hard and we have just been breaking all the rules.

Anyway, Claire sat down with me and gave me some good advice and said she did the same thing with her eldest and that I had to break this, start putting them down earlier etc. and get them in the cribs for their naps.  I really did take her advice to heart, on returning from her house I put both girls who were asleep into the cribs and left them there for an hour then woke them up, after that we started our nightly routine an hour earlier and instead of holding each girl until they fell asleep they went into the cribs and stayed there.  Now we had the crying, sobing, talking but eventually they both dropped off, it took nearly two hours but we got there, today at lunch I did the same thing I darkened the room, left them in the cribs and ignored them, I read a little and played on my ipod but I pretty much ignored them except for the occasional thrown binki but even those I would wait before returning them .  That left me with this evening...James is working the graveyard having worked a full day shift, I had dinner ready for him when he got home and he was able to retire to the bedroom by 5pm, then I bravely said I will get the girls to bed don't worry (gulp) just make sure you have an alarm set in case I'm still in the girls bedroom, just unplug the monitor and don't worry about it.  Now all credit to my husband he said wake me if you need help...now it was tempting as it's always a bit of a rush to run a bath, undress two dirty little girls, heat up bottles and then get them out of the bath dried dressed hair brushed but I managed, fortunately the girls bedroom looks directly into the bathroom so it's possible to leave one in the draining bath tub and get the other changed all the while having line of sight on the other child.  In the event of an emergency I can dump one on the floor whilst charging into the bathroom...probably not the safest solution but it works.