These days, Collin tries everything he can to distract us from remembering it's bedtime and putting him to bed. On his way up the stairs, he says "eat" or "drink" while pointing towards the kitchen. We know he is not hungry or thirsty because we have fell for this a few times and figured out that he just did not want to go upstairs. After his bath, we have to put him in his room and shut the door or he will try to escape out the door and down stairs. Once in his room, it's a fight to get his PJs on. Before then, he happily plays in his room or pulls down books that he wants to read. Once we start putting his PJs on (it takes two of us sometimes to do this), he starts trying to run away and fussing like we are the bad guys or something. One we are exhausted from diapering him and getting his PJs on, then is time to read a few books. Collin pulls out two books for every one that we finish. We try to limit the number to 4ish books a night. Collin wants us to read many more than that because he knows the next step is to get in his crib.
This is the way it has been for months now and we are all used to it. So, you must imagine my surprise when late last week, I looked over and saw Collin climbing into his crib himself and saying "night night". I tried to not act too shocked, took him back out of his crib and he climbed in again. He did it again last night and I got it on video this time. As you saw from the end of the video, he wanted out and to climb in again to only repeat again. I did not let him do this so we then started the bedtime routine of reading a few books after negotiating which ones to read.
Whew, it's a workout and I am ready for bed after putting Collin to bed. Anyone else have similar experiences?
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