My baby can sleep by himself...

So, I decided to kick myself in the butt last night and attempt the unthinkable. I moved Patrick's bassinet from beside my bed and into his nursery (his crib won't be here until next week). I was determined that he needs to sleep by himself. I am not against co-sleeping - it has it's advantages. But it just wasn't working for us. I was uncomfortable in my own bed and Matt and I both awoke to his every little grunt and groan. Not to mention the fact that he thought it was kosher to nurse ALL NIGHT LONG, leaving me to wake up and get him latched back on at every wimper.
Believe it or not, the night actually went quite well. He ate between 9 and 9:30 and then we started the marathon of laying him down to sleep. It took about 3 tries and several passy retrivals before he finally got himself to sleep (without "crying it out") around 10:40. I layed down and got 30 minutes of very peaceful sleep until he awoke and was ready to eat again. After eating, he layed back down and went right to sleep all by himself, much to my surprise! He slept from about 11:30 to 1:30. Then, he was wide awake from then until a little after 3 - he ate a couple times and spent a little quality time with daddy at this point ; ) Then he went back to sleep until about 5:30 and ate and went right back down. Then up for good at 8:30 along with his big brother. So, all in all, he is averaging night wakings about every 2-3 hours which is wonderful considering I wasn't sure that he would even sleep by himself and before I was averaging 30 minutes - 1 hour of sleep at a time. It should get even better over the next few weeks as he learns to cope with sleeping without mommy.
So far, I am scheduled to go back to work the week of April 6. Which is a couple more weeks than I had planned. I just talked to my manager and she's going to see about getting me too pick up some call days or something in the next two weeks. I'm thankful that I will be free for Easter to see family. I need to get the boys some cute Easter outfits (matching of course - Matt hates that!!).
The boys have been so great this morning. Jack has been playing well with minimal whining so far and Patrick has eaten, slept well, and even played some on his own. Jack and I set up his play gym in Jack's room this morning and got out some of Jack's old baby toys:

And what a good listener Jack was being. When I said, "Help mommy clean up baby's toys," here is what happened:

Much to my amazement, he actually listened and didn't turn around when he was done and dump them all out again!!
I'm going to try to go and catch a nap while both boys are doing the same. Then later, I might try to set up the digital picture frame that Matt got me for my birthday! It's so neat! Matt's working a double shift today so I'm on my own until tomorrow, so I need to get some extra rest today.