What Goes On at Night?

This morning I had an experience that I'm sure almost all new parents have and either freak out or laugh about.

When I put Jackson into his crib each night for his big block of sleep (between 12 and 6 am) I have him neatly swaddled and his head is facing north. For 11 weeks and five days, when I walked back into his room in the morning, or any other nap time, that was essentially how I found him each time. Once or twice he has been totally unswaddled but always he is in the north end of the crib with his head in that direction. That changed this morning.

He was up at 5:15 am (ugh) and I walked in there and found him facing the opposite direction in the opposite end of the crib. The swaddle blanket was in a ball tucked into the corner of the crib. He was laying there in his onesie, probably chilly, waiting for us to come get him. How I think it went down: his mattress is at a slight incline right now to help with his schnoz congestion during illness. I surmise that he wiggled his way down to the south end of the crib and then in the process of pulling a Houdini out of his swaddle, somehow rotated 180 degrees. I got him out and then went and got dad to show him what I found and we were both just sort of speechless.

Needless to say, tonight is night three of the jammies experiment.