2 1/2 hours!!!

2 1/2 hours! That's how long it took me to get Drew to sleep last night!

Because Drew is just like his father and thinks he's the next Evil Keneivel (sp) he not only was climbing in and out of his crib.... he was flinging himself clear across the room from the top of his crib! And being that I really don't need anymore trips to the hospital for cracked skulls, broken bones etc. we decided it would be best to take down the crib.

We were supposed to pick up his bed at Julie's house this past weekend... but being that we had yet another snowstowm we couldn't get it. And now Matt has a really severe case of strep and is doing everything he can to stay out of the hospital ( yea he's that sick again!!) I decided to wait until next weekend to get the bed.

Matt feels that this will be the end all to Drew's lack of sleeping. I knew damn well that this would just give this kid even more opportunity to get into shit. =P

So we did the redneck thing last night.... we threw a mattress on the floor and called it done for now. lol He was so excited to sleep in his "big boy" bed (aka the mattress on the floor) that he went up by himself and said he wanted to go to bed. So I tucked him in and shut the door.... and then waited for the fun that lay ahead. A mere 5 seconds after I tucked him in I see the door knob turning and out he comes. Okay... I see that I will probably need to lay in here with him. So I lay down next to him ( even though I have a million things that still need to be done before I can go to bed) and he proceeds to tell me that I can sleep in his bed and he's going to go sleep in mine. This goes on for another 2 hours. We go back and forth between our room and his. He even goes into the girls' rooms and says he's going to sleep with them. Um no. I have threatened him by telling him Santa's not coming ( he could care less), told him he'll get a spanking( just laughed at that one) and even told him there were snakes on the floor so he can't get off the bed. He promptly tells me he likes snakes. =P By this point I have dealt with this little monster for 15 hours.... the last 2 1/2 trying to get him to go to sleep! I have no patience left and I've come to the conclusion that he's NEVER going to sleep again! When finally he starts to doze off. In his bed, with me laying beside him rubbing his back. =P

I crawl back into my bed after I'm sure that the demon spawn is fast asleep. He actually slept a whole 4 hours before waking up and realizing he couldn't get out of his room... thanks to those nifty little doorknob holders... hehe! I didn't have the energy to start that whole fiasco over again so I gave up and brought him into bed with me.

I don't know what tonight has in store for me.....maybe he'll go to sleep a little quicker or maybe I'll just give up again and he'll sleep with me. For now it works for him just to crawl inbetween us and sleep. But I imagine the beds going to get a little crowded when he's 18. =P