Just Like Grandpa

So it seems we may have turned the corner with long car rides, but not bedtime!!!!!!

While in NY there is always so much going on and Ethan almost always gets to stay up late. With this trip we were hesitate about the sleep issue. Ethan informed us that he would be climbing out of the crib that Grandma and Grandpa had there for him and that the pack-n-play is for babies. So Aunt Kiki was able to get this great red race car bed. Downside.... no rails to keep the little monkey in it..

All the worrying was for nothing... By the time he got to bed he was so exhausted I don't think he would have been able to get himself up and out of that bed if he was able to swim in a pool of chocolate sauce. And.... He slept through the night!!!!! Didn't get up once. Woke up at his usual time... He was a little grumpy some days because he wasn't going to sleep til 10 and still getting up at 7 or 8, but still.... He slept through the night!!

Last night we of course go through the 30 minute routine of getting him to go to sleep. Finally there is silence. Then he calls for Daddy as soon as we sit down to watch AI. Ted goes in there and Ethan tells him he got out of his bed to go get a toy. Ok... Go to sleep now.. 5 minutes later he calls Ted back in... He is wearing the orange hard hat...... Ok... Go to sleep now... 5 minutes after that he calls Ted back in. Ethan is laughing to himself and tells Ted to "look at me I am like Grandpa" Grandpa of course has a moustache. It was a little warning sticker on his hard hat that he peeled off and decided to use as a moustache.

Ted is away for a couple of days so I get to deal with the night time routine all by myself tonight. I guess this will be good practice for when Ted is really gone.... Wish me Luck!!