Slowly but surely we are making progress in Independent Play.

This is how things went down today:

Daddy did IP this morning because it’s Saturday and he always gets up with Little Bug on Saturday to spend some one-on-one time with her and to let me sleep in!

Last night I asked him if he wanted to brave doing IP. He said, “Sure.”

I knew exactly when he was doing IP because Little Bug’s cries woke me up. But then, they stopped! She whined off and on, but it was certainly progress from the previous few days.

Then I thought, Maybe it’s because Daddy put her in her room. Little Bug is a HUGE mama’s girl right now.

Well, I did IP this afternoon after lunch and she did the usual cry as hard as you can and then after about a minute, she stopped!

Then she started up again for maybe 30 seconds and stopped.

For the remainder of the 5 minutes she actually sat down and played with the Noah’s Ark she has just been dying to play with since she first discovered it.

The timer went off and I immediately went into her room and told her it was time to clean up. She started helping me clean up!

Definitely progress!

I’m going to keep being very consistent with IP, doing 5 minutes twice a day. Hopefully by this time next week I can report that we have increased the amount of minutes of IP!

I’m not going to say there won’t be more mostly crying IP times, but we are certainly moving in the right direction and she is catching on to what is expected of her during IP.

- Elaine