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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[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.