During dinner last night, which was yummy lasagna by the way, Qade picked up his “muffin” (aka bread) and asked for “Butterfly on it, peese” (????) Oh yes, he wanted butter on it. I just about died!! Too funny! I tell you what, kids might give us gray hair, but the add a lot of laugh lines too!
We’ve been working on Qade’s sleeping habits lately. We moved Myles out of their room for the time being. Qade gets up WAY too early, and has a hard time settling down for the night as well. Once we get those things worked out *sigh* then they can be roomies again. Poor Myles was just not getting good night time sleep because of his big bro. So one thing we did was to get this switch lock to go on Qade’s light switch. His method was to get a book, slide it up the wall and turn the light on. Now with the lock on it, you have to press a button on the side in order to make the switch go up or down, and then it it locked in that position. Yesterday morning was Qade’s first experience with the switch. For some reason I was only half asleep at 5-whatever when I heard the sound of a book sliding up the wall, several times, followed by wailing and screaming “LIGHT!!!!!!” Ha ha ha!! It kind of cracked me up actually, but I did feel sorry for him too. Poor lad. Stu got up and comforted him over not being able to turn on his light any more and put him back in bed. We believe he went back to sleep too. Yay! Believe me, Qade would benefit from getting more sleep at night as well! So now to work on the going to bed thing. He howls and screams about it like it was the end of the world. It’s the one time that he’ll actually ask to go potty, though I well know it’s a stall tactic, so to no avail. 
Tonight I’m going to institute a new bedtime routine. We will brush teeth, both boys, Myles will go to bed in spare room, then Qade will have story time for a few minutes, the we will walk CALMLY to his bed, tuck in and go to sleep! At least that’s the plan. I’m going to tell him before it all starts that we’re going to go to bed in a little bit, and hopefully that will help him be mentally prepared. One day at a time…. Now that it’s getting chilly it would be nice to have them back in the same room so that we don’t have to heat an extra room. The spare, where Myles is sleeping now, is the coldest room in the house too, and I don’t like that! Plus he’s using OUR space heater, so now we’re cold!
Myles has become a champion head butter recently. 
You have to watch out or you’ll get your face, or knee or whatever smashed by his very tough little head! It’s pretty cute though how he does it! He’s always been a nuzzler. He loves to put his face on mine and nuzzle it in. He also burrows in pillows, and piles of stuffed animals too. Cute little monkey! He’s little mr. big-stuff these days and you can tell that he’s totally getting ready to walk. What will that be like??? Two running boys in my house?! Oh my! Qade’s world changed quite a bit when Myles started crawling, but he’s going to have to adjust all over again, when Myles can actually keep up with him!
Well, I’m off for today. I’ve been chasing Qade around all morning trying to get him to do “pooey” in the potty. He seems nearly as determined to NOT do it, so we’ll see how it ends up. I’m adding a video that I found from someone on Facebook. It’s really amazing. It says that these little girls are 6,7 and 8, but they sound amazing!!! Have a great Friday and a fabulous weekend!
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Okay – the using the book thing to turn on the light in absolutely ingenius! What a smart little guy you have!
I think I would have cracked up laughing, too to hear him try to turn on the light and find he couldn’t! I know, probably cruel of me, but oh well! I was wondering – has Qade always had a hard time going down to sleep, or is this something newer as of recently? The reason I ask is because we went through that with Liam. He always went to bed just fine, until just around 2 years or so and he all of a sudden would cry and scream and keep getting out of bed and stuff. It was SO frustrating! But we were more determined than him, kept up our routine, and once we put him in bed, shut the door (which we always did) and not go back in. I can remember one night that I literally stood outside the door, holding it shut while he was trying to open it on the other side, screaming. He was just throwing a temper tantrum and I felt really sad about having to do it, but, after about a week of that, it worked and now we have been back to normal for a long time. (of course, there were some time-outs involved in all of that, too!)
I think it is another one of their phases that they go through. I remember, whenever we have an issue like that with Liam, I always ask my sis-in-law, Danielle, if they had it with Eldan – which usually they did!
Anyways, I was just curious! Hope he gets over this soon!
Yep, I thought it was pretty smart of Qade to figure out how to turn on his own light too. That’s why I felt kind of bad for him when we fixed it so he couldn’t. Qade has had a hard time w/ bed since we introduced him to his big-boy bed. Now that he can get out of it at will, and especially after he could climb in and out of the crib, he will play for a LONG time after we put him to bed if we don’t intervene. But the crying and whining goes on as we’re putting him down. The biggest problem with it all is that if Myles is trying to sleep in there as well he gets disturbed. Qade will wake him up as we’re trying to put Qade to bed, and they will squeal and play. Then Myles gets all wound up, and we’ll have to take him out till Qade is asleep. Then Qade wakes up at 5am or so and it all starts again. So it’s been very frustrating. One good thing is that Qade can’t open his door, but it doesn’t stop him from bothering his brother or playing in there. Anyway, hopefully it’ll all work out soon. It has gotten really old for us.
But it’s encouraging that Liam worked through it and Eldan too. There is hope!
Isn’t it always something? That’s good that he can’t open doors – yet! Just wait till one morning you wake up to a cutie little face staring right at you saying, “Hi Mommy!” It is cute – except at 5 am! That is earliy! I am glad that my kids “sleep in” til at least 7:30 – usually. Leila will sleep til 9 most mornings! Hopefully you can get it squared away soon so Myles won’t have too wear 6 layers of clothes to bed in the cold room – or you since he has the space heater!