So -

[kyburg]

Last night, kid had so much fun he didn't want to go to sleep. Dinner was ramen, apples, bananas and COOKIES. Then a bath, then some television...and it was pretty clear he was just plain happy to be here.

Seriously. Two hours later and he's pulling every trick in the book to stay up just that wee bit longer (including three bupkis trips to the bathroom, oldest trick in the book, neh?).

We had to load him up and drive up and down the 405 to put him to sleep. At about 8:30 PM. If that's not love, what is?

*sniggers*

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[sogetsu2.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D
So cute. Still willing to help with Chinese issues if necessary. Hope you're less sick!

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's love. FWIW, Mere at 9.5 is still falling asleep in Mom's arms most nights in the living room, plopped in her lap in TV position. We know she's ready when she takes off her glasses (she's gotten near-sighted), rolls over on her side in Mommy's lap and inserts thumb and zonks.

We also had a lot of good luck in getting her to relax (she'd pull every trick in the book, too) with the use of a small dose of melatonin; Mere's sister's mom (gads, it's all weird, I know) is a professional with a international adoption agency dealing with kids who have behaviour issues and so on, and (a) is seriously nice, and (b) has had a ton of experience with adopted kids with a huge range of problems.

Long story short, she started using it on Mere's sister Mer, and it worked like a champ, and it's worked well for Mere as well. FWIW, of course, and far from a noodge, OK?

Really, you sould like you've been doing a spectacular job with him, and that the baseline is that he's a really good kid. Any rough edges, those can wear off with time, including bang-bang-stick-em-up.

[odiedragon.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a perfectly normal scenario to me!

Hey, did the package I sent there ever show up? I can understand not giving him the toys right away... but I'm concerned that something happened in the mail stream. :(

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

I remember the days when we would drive Alex to sleep. We also used a CD series called Rock-a-bye baby that had rock music set to soothing instruments. Examples were Metallica and The Cure.

[sithdragn.livejournal.com]

That's so adorable!

[kimberlychapman.livejournal.com]

Catching up with you... sorry about your cat, but big smiles for you on this.

Kids just don't want to go to bed! And the better the day they've had, the less they want it to end. You'll never see more cleverness than what they'll pull to get 30 more seconds out of you. And the ultimate classic is when they cry/ whine, "I'm NOT tired!" in a way that totally screams how exhausted they are.

If you like They Might Be Giants, check out their combo book/cd called Bed Bed Bed. And recently we've been having a laugh with a book from the library that's called something like Don't Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late, in which a pigeon tried all of those tricks on the reader. It is so funny to hear peo scold the pigeon and agree that he's clearly tired when she's pulling the same stuff. And I must admit, a couple of times lately she's agreed that she is tired, unlike the silly pigeon...