Ryan purchased an infrared camera and set it up as a baby monitor. The video streams over our wireless and we can watch it on our computer. He installed it a few weeks ago, and I love having it. First, everybody enjoys staring at a sleeping baby, right? But even more importantly, I love having the camera because our bedroom door squeaks and our floor creaks. This way we can check on Asher without waking him up.
Also, the babe has started sitting and standing up when he should be sleeping. We think he “sleep sits” because he’ll be crying with his eyes closed, but sitting up, and when we lay him back down, he goes right back to sleep. Aww. Anyway, since we’ve been sleeping in the living room (sleep training; hopefully we’ll have drastically fewer night wakings in the near future), the camera helps us know when we can let him cry and when we need to rescue him.
Anyway, on to the pictures! We can take snapshots with the monitor camera. At first, they started out looking like this. So precious:
Then, sometimes we would put him down to bed, and thinking he was sleeping, we’d pull up the monitor feed and see this. Kind of startling! Ryan’s commentary: “He suspects something.”
The circle of little red lights on the camera is pretty fascinating. He stares at it a lot. The other day, when it was nap time, Asher repeatedly sat up every time I put him down. And every time I went from the room immediately to the computer, I would see something like this:
Then, after laying him down for a third time, this:
