Ok, I’m not sure if any other mom out there has encountered this unique trait in their child or not. When Luke was a baby and I was sleep training him, he would scream for hours…literally. Finally after three tough days he settled in to a pattern and would fall asleep on his own for me. After that Luke started waking up screaming, and I read somewhere that you should instill a pattern where you never get your children up while screaming….when you know they are ok that is. So that is what I did. After a few more days Luke no longer screamed when I laid him down or when I got him up.
Instead of screaming to let me know he was awake by kicking. When I say this I mean the kind of kick where you lay on your back, lift your legs in the air and then WAM….you let them fall as fast and as hard as you can. At first I had no idea what it was that Luke was doing…in the middle of the night he would wake and “kick” but it sounded like thunder…so at first I really thought we were having a storm outside. Finally I figured out that it was Luke. Then one day I caught him in the act of “kicking” in his crib. It was incredible to watch. He got so much “air” under him as he did this and then would bounce a little after the “kick”. Of course like everything else, Luke found this hilarious. So it wasn’t long before the “thunder” was followed by loud giggles.
Luke still does this once and a while, he even does it on the floor and you can feel the room vibrate. He has tried it on the bathroom floor which wound up not being so funny, because we replaced the linoleum with tile….so you can imagine how Luke reacted the first time he tried that. There were no giggles, just tears.
The last few months Luke has found another way to let me know he is awake. Sometimes he still “kicks” but now he finds it funnier to “rock”. Yes…I said “rock”. I don’t mean that he started a music band or anything like that. He will literally rock back and forth…causing the crib to rock and creak with him. Sometimes he “rocks” so hard that the crib hits the wall. He finds this extremely funny.
Just yesterday Luke was “rocking” and when I went to go get him, I heard our baby girl wake up as well….and wouldn’t’ you know it? She started “rocking” her crib too. Only when I looked in she was doing it standing up….where as Luke likes to do it while sitting in his crib. Sometimes Luke does it standing up though.
What kind of big brother teaches his little sister to “rock out” in a crib? They both find it so funny and all I can do is watch and laugh too. Below you’ll find a couple videos to “visualize” this. Since I couldn’t get both kids at once, I got Luke and then our baby girl…and if you listen carefully you can hear Luke “rocking” his crib when our baby girl stops. It was almost like they were talking back and forth.
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