Ode to Sleep Take Two

Last night was the first time all three kids slept through the night. At least that I can remember... Yep, they slept, in their own beds, and didn't wake up til morning. How did we do it? I guess if you stick with a method it does work eventually. Real Dad and I went back to the suggestions in Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Sleep Solution and started implementing them again. We started with a bed time routine for everyone, including a story, music and lights out at a set bed time. We had to do so modifications over the weeknend because Real Daughter 2 and Real Son ended up getting sick. They both got really high fevers of over 103 F but know other symptoms. Both seem fine today which is good. We also stayed consistent (sort of) with how we put them back to sleep if they woke up. We gave them back their binkies, laid them back down and covered them up, then stayed with them til they were almost asleep again before leaving. As I said, two of them were sick, and Real Son ended up sleeping in our bed one night for most of the night. We also had all three of them in our bed one night this weekend. Oh well, they're young and when they're sick, they need comfort. One day (sooner then we think) they will not want to sleep with us. One night is nice, hopefully it's a trend that continues...