February 17, 2008 - not naptime!

Everything in toddler world is just a phase, right? (please oh please...)

Colin is not wanting to sleep in his big boy bed for naps and now not even for bedtime (and shocker, he wants to sleep in Mama's bed and is learning how to wrap himself around my little finger to do so, during which neither of us really get any quality sleep!)

After a long debate, I decided to let Colin try to "put himself to sleep" for his nap on Sunday with the baby gate at his doorway and instead of peaceful sleeping, we went through a half hour of him screaming and completing mass destruction of his room (which was actually completely picked up before this process began in this picture). He fell asleep (see small child on the bed in the pic), only after I came back in and read him another story and sat with him until he was too exhausted to keep his eyes open... (thanks again Melis for helping me through this afternoon!)

Mamas out there with advise on this phase, please share!