The Beast Regresses

The last few weeks have been hard. Beast, at 17 months, suddenly decided that he no longer was going to take naps or go to bed at a reasonable hour. I've had to listen to hours of him crying in his crib.

The low point was a couple of Sundays ago when he yet again was in his crib crying while he should have been napping. I let him cry up there for 45 minutes, convinced that eventually he'd give in and go to sleep. But no. Mike eventually got home from his endless church meetings and I had my emotional breakdown. As always Mike was a rock. Took us both for a ride through the hills, and Beast finally slept in the car.

Things are better now. We've established a new routine for putting him down. Lullaby music on the cd player in his room. Sitting in the rocker with him and reading for 20 minutes before bedtime. It's a lot more work than it was before, but it seems to generally be doing the trick.