YES he is a maniac

Thank you for all your nice and encouraging e mails and comments.

I should have added that I sleep VERY deep and don't notice when he comes in my bed.
I then wake up at some point (because my bladder is being squished by #2) and there he is. I can't carry his dead weight body back to his bed, let alone to the top of his bunk bed. So, JAKEY won again!

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See my little bed bug next to me... rolled up like a pillow? I took this picture at around 3 am!

He then wakes up in the am, looks over to me and says "Thank you for letting me sleep with you!" ARGHHHH

So, tonight Daddy took him to the baseball game, they are going to come home late and hopefully he will be so tuckered out that I can put him in his bed to sleep. If he sleeps all night in his own bed I will throw him a little party in the morning. Let's see how that goes...

stay tuned!

musical beds

Every night we go through a ritual that we call "musical beds". One night Jakey will start out in his bed, Scot and I sleep together, then Jakey comes in with us, I move to the guest bed, Jakey comes after me... and so on! We switch bed about 2 times a night.

Bedtime has started to be a nightmare. Something I think about all day long.

He will cry and whine about going in his bed... well then after a while I would just let him fall asleep in my bed since thats where he will end up anyway... since a few weeks that's not good enough. He wants me to fall asleep with him.

Lets look at the alternative: He will scream bloddy murder, he will get out of his bed a million times (believe me not even the Supernanny would have the patience for this), he sneaks downstairs and hides somewhere... sits there really still so I think he is finally asleep upstairs, he locks himself in my room and just turns on the TV AND knows to turn it on very low so I won't hear it. He calls me because he is "scared of the dark", needs a drink, needs to poop, needs to pee, needs me, needs this, needs that...

There are two nights a week I like to watch TV... in peace! Thursday and Sunday night. Thursday I love the comedies and Sunday all in want to watch is the Amazing Race. Do you think I get to watch 10 minutes at a time? NO!

See, and what makes me so furious is that we are talking about the little angle who I would lay down and he would fall asleep in his own bed AND on his own and would sleep all night in his own bed... something has changed! I am blaming it on turning 4!

I have tried to give prices, rewards, take priviledges away etc... nothing works.

We start him out at 7:30 and if I am lucky he will be asleep by 10pm... of course in my bed and me next to him.

Tonight... he wasn't listening at dinner so I told him he needs to go in his bed. Surprisingly he went and he is asleep now but I know he will be up again in a few hours. Before he fell asleep I told him for that every time he gets up or I hear a peep I will come in and take a toy away. I doubt he will remember that at midnight...

I want my little boy back who all you needed to do is give him a kiss and tell him "don't let the bed bugs bite you" and he would drift off into dream land.

new stall tactic

Do you know how kids have these stall tactics at bed time?
"Can I have a glass of water?"
"I need to go pee pee?"

Well this is how my kid tried to stall his bedtime last night:

J: "Mommy Mommy!"
Me: "Yes!!!"
J: "be careful!"
Me: "be careful with what?"
J: "be careful that you don't crack your head!"
Me: "huh???"
J: "or I am going to throw you in the trash!"


WHAT???

bed time

Jake goes great to bed. We take him upstairs, brush his teeth, fill up the humidifier ("put the water in to make the cough better"), tuck him in, give him his mimi (milk), turn on his baby (gloworm), give him a kiss, a kiss for the baby, and a kiss for mimi and good night! Every night he picks out a different toy to sleep with him. Usually it is a monkey on a bike.... but lately it has been this giraffe.



Good night, sweet boy!