I get no end of laughs from my kids! Lk lately has been fighting me on when to go to bed. Yes, I still have him in the crib. He is comfortable there and feels cozy there. He won't jump out because he's pretty obedient. Except about when to go to bed. "MOMMY! MOMMY!" he calls out every 5 mins or so until 10:30pm. "Dropped my truck!" he'll say, then I hear this thump on his floor as he's obviously thrown it. He just wants me in there.
I tried a night light, a little angel one that I was saving for the special moment when one of my boys might like it. He said he was scared of the dark so I plugged it in. "Get it out!" he cried as soon as I shut the door. So I shut it off, but that wasn't good enough for him! He wanted me to unplug it and take it out of his room.
The summers are easier as I can sit on the front porch and not have to hear him but once fall hits, I'm stuck because the living room is right next to his bedroom in my little 800 sq foot living area! Lately I've been going in the basement to get away from his crying that he doesn't want to go to sleep.
Last night he FINALLY dropped off and though he's shorter than his crib, he likes to have his legs between the bars, as shown. He really cracks me up.
The problem: he no longer needs a nap. He sleeps for me at 8:30pm on the weekends if I don't have him take a nap. But daycare forces a nap on him, then he keeps me up half the night.
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LMAO.....HTSYERICAL! Love that picture!!
S was getting up at 430, 5am for weeks. I finally realized she doesn't need a nap anymore and since she gave up her nap she sleeps in till 6 or 7 am, getting up to 11 hours of sleep a night. It's been wonderful. You're in a bind though with the nap at daycare. What other options do you have?
That picture is a kill! Makes me think of the witch's legs sticking out from under the house in the Wizard of Oz...lol
I feel for you on the nap thing, but it's coming for me, too...she doesn't really like to take one on the weekends much anymore...*sigh*
Reet, you ask what other options do I have? To take him to a regular daycare center instead that does not force the naps. But we're talking thousands more per year to do that.
H, I feel for you! We NEED our kid-free hour or two on the weekends!
Holy crap! That is too cute!
OMG! I will die when they stop napping...Right now, they still sleep 7-7 and take a 2 hour nap on the weekends. That helps to save some of my sanity....I am sure my days of that are numbered as 3 RAPIDLY approaches....UGH
He is just too funny! :)
Hmmm. Just thinking about what I do with Bennie, but would a short after-dinner-walk help?
Sometimes, what I do when Bennie won't go to bed is to run him, literally, around 9:00 p.m., just around the block for 15 min. NOT what I feel like doing, but sometimes it helps.
HE thinks he's getting this big adventure, but then he sees it's dark outside, spooky, and no one's around, and he's more likely to go to bed.
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