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I just put Connor down for his nap and as usual his eyes opened again. However I decided to leave him be this time, and he cried a bit - his new, fake, not-really-crying-cry - but he eventually did fall asleep! This is definitely a breakthrough!!

We started noticing his fake cry about a week ago. This cry is a quieter one than his real cry, and is not accompanied by tears (He only started having tears about 2 or 3 weeks ago. It sure breaks my heart to see the real tears!). About two days ago I noticed that with these fake cries, it will stop after about 5 minutes and he will be quiet... and then he'll fake cry again, and stop again, until he gets what he wants.