Cozy.....?

Well, life isn't always perfect, right? As some things are going wonderfully - potty training (Will is doing so awesome, I was amazed that he told his nursery leader today that he needed to go potty, but wanted me to take him. So, they brought him to me, and all that time, he still didn't have an accident.... this is only a week of potty training!)

For a long time now, Will has not slept in his bed. When we got his new bed, he did great, but still ventured into our room to sleep on our floor usually around 3 am. However, we didn't mind because he went to bed so easily, slept great, and didn't wake us up when he came in our room early. Well, ever since our first trip to Utah this summer, back in May, we've had some major "non-sleeping" around our house. It is like musical beds every night. It doesn't help that it is 80 degrees and HUMID, so our upstairs is not comfortable. So, every night our routine goes a little something like this:

7:30 - bath Will, deal with him tearfully saying "it's not for bedtime!!"
8:00 - read stories, say prayers, and sit on the floor by his bed while we sing a song.... or 10 songs.
8:15 - try to sneak out of the room before he notices we are gone, wait, he never went to sleep and wouldn't close his eyes because he's scared of his curtain above his bed.... so, try to run out the door and shut it tight before he gets to it and tries to keep us from closing it.
8:16 - listen to him scream and bang on the door, and say "I want to sleep on your floor!"
8:30 - try to calm him down and tell him he has to sleep in his bed for awhile
............... we do this for about 2 hours..............
10:00pm - throw our hands in the air and put Will on our floor where he falls asleep instantly and we don't hear a peep from him until 8 am the next morning....... well, I guess not a "peep"
12 - midnight - a little man climbs secretly up on our bed trying to not wake us up so he can nestle in between us.....
1:00 am - Scott moves out of the bed and goes downstairs where he will no longer get kicked in the face by Will's feet
2:00 am - Kara clings to the edge of the bed because she's about to fall off because Will is on her pillow and she doesn't dare move because she doesn't want to wake him up.
3:00 am - after almost falling off the bed several times, Kara finally pushes Will to the vacant side of the bed and goes back to sleep
7:00 am - we wake up, tired, and ready for another day!

Issues? Yes. What to do about them? Who knows. Our little guy is such a sweetheart during the day, so well behaved, so fun to be around, and is doing such a good job at being a big boy, that it is really hard for us to force this issue. So, finally, after several nights of dealing with this little sleep issue (which for most of you reading, you are probably thinking that we need to just suck it up and make him stay in his room, but unfortunately, Scott and I are softies, we can't do that to our little man - we've tried.) Scott finally said "FINE! I'm moving HIS bed into our room!"

So, there you have it folks, our master suite with our snug little toddler bed along side our nice cozy bed. Do you think this has solved the problem?..... check back for more pictures of our past couple of nights. (I have to download them, but can't because Will is napping on our bed where the camera and the computer are!) Reading stories before bed.... doesn't Scott look cozy? All I can say is this, it took some major

bribing to even get Will to lay down in his bed. We've soon realized he doesn't like his bed at all.

So our problem may not have been that he was lonely and wanted to sleep by us,

I think it is just that he has a weird phobia about his bed??