I had to blog about Joey's bedtime routine. We bought him a firetruck bed at a yard sale when he was 18 months old and he started sleeping in it right away. The first week was very difficult because he discovered he could climb in and out, in and out (repeat 50 times), but we finally got him to stay in his bed and sleep. So his nightly routine is this - he sits in his rocking chair or his elmo chair and mommy or daddy reads him books (in the picture I asked him to bring me some books to read, you can see the big pile). I read the same book 4 or 5 times and then tell him to get in his firetruck bed.
If the light on top has low or dead batteries, getting him to bed is extended by 10 minutes because he's not very happy with that. I hear "uh ohhh, battery dead, daddy fix"...after he gets in bed I have to read two or three more times to him (his favorite book these days is "pig picnic", he recites it along with me as I am reading because he's heard it so many times), then I turn out the light. Joey says "dark in here" (repeat 50 times), tries to push the limits by not getting out of his bed, but hanging his legs over the bed because he knows he's not supposed to get out (it's hard not to laugh), he tosses and turns and says every word he knows, we recite everyone we know that goes nighty nighty.
("Elmo goes nighty nighty? Daddy goes nighty night? Sissy goes nighty night? Big Bird goes nighty night? " etc
Then suddenly there is silence and he is asleep. Before he goes to sleep, we have to make sure he has his "truck pillow" which is a body pillow with trucks all over it his Aunt Sue made him, and I have to find the tag on his blanket and hand it to him. Then as he is falling asleep he makes demands for snacks, milk, "diaper wet", whatever he can do to not have to go asleep, when all I want to do is go to sleep. Once he is asleep though I have to go peek at him a couple of times because he just looks like a little angel.
I also thought I wuold post a picture of Joey's tractor (he calls it his mower), he just loves it, he rides it around the house and picks anything up with it and dumps it in his dump truck.
I also have to brag on my husband, he was on a panel of experts and an article was written up in mission critical magazine. You can go to http://www.missioncriticalmagazine.com/, open the link for 'a meeting of the minds' for the September 2008 issue. You can download the article as a pdf.
Excuse all the typos and grammatical errors, it's been a long day, so now I'm going to go nighty night.
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