The Bed

Dylan's crib was needing an overhaul. So we just took it down and stuck him in the toddler bed M&M gave us. He loved it. He was so excited about it. Then I bought the car bedset, and he was over the moon. For the 1st week he would go in his room by himself and close the door to lay on his bed. Not to nap, just to spend time there. If I would open the door to see how he was (he can't open the door himself), he would get upset, kick me out, and close the door again. I was thinking that this phase didn't start until he was a teenager. Only then would he be too cool for his mom to come in his room. Not before he was two!

Then, a bad thing happened. He stopped taking afternoon naps. I've loved that he's taken 2 naps/day for the last year. So I decided, since I'm the mom, that if he was only going to take 1nap/day it was going to be after lunch. This has been a rough transition since I worked a bunch unexpectedly last week before he was secure in this new schedule. Now it turns out that if I set up the pack-n-play for naps he'll go to sleep in a reasonable amount of time, but it's a ridiculous procedure to have to go through for a nap. Instead of playing in his room for 2 hours with no toys. He still goes down to sleep in his bed at night without a peep.

Getting my kid to sleep has never been so frustrating.