Always changing!

If there is one thing I have learned with having a baby, it's that things are ALWAYS changing!  Routines and schedules and interests only last but so long.  So the last month had been a huge step backwards as far as Josiah's nighttime sleeping.  He used to sleep at least 8 hours before waking up for a bottle, and then he'd go back to sleep for another 2 hours... but ever since he got sick last month, he's been waking up multiple times and nothing but a bottle, and rocking and walking will satisfy him.  We were getting pretty exhausted, but we also knew that he just didn't know how to soothe himself back to sleep on his own. 

Well what do you know? Josiah has never wanted anything to do with a pacifier. And then a couple weeks ago, I just randomly tried it again when he was fussing before falling asleep, and he took it and dozed off while I rocked him. Hmmm.... I was still rocking him and not laying him down until he was fully asleep, but I had a feeling that pacifier might be just what we needed.  And sure enough... Friday afternoon, he just wouldn't fall asleep, even with the pacifier and with me rocking him, so I just laid him in his crib wide awake but with the pacifier.  I went and sat in the glider where he couldn't see me, and he just kicked his legs up and down and played with the little monkey in his crib for about 6 minutes and then he was out!  I couldn't believe it!  No crying, nothing!  And it's worked all weekend just like that!   I still don't think he knows to find a pacifier in his crib on his own when he wakes up... but if all I have to do is walk in and pop it back in his mouth in the middle of the night, that's at least a huge improvement!   Any suggestions on how to help him find it on his own?