I have probably said it a million times, but my kids hate sleep. Really, they do. It's like pulling teeth to get them to actually go to sleep. I have been working really hard to get Justin to sleep through the night lately. While my parents were here, we weaned 100% from nursing, and I'm still hoping that is going to help us (although I have yet to see it do much good) and I have been trying to get him to slowly learn to fall asleep on his own. He is now in a toddler bed (which he does like much better than his crib) so I have been rocking him for a few minutes while reading stories and then I put him in his bed. I was laying in it with him, but this week I started sitting next to it and leaning over some onto his bed (and slowly but surely I'm hoping to move towards the door).
Anyway, I say all that just to give you an idea of where we're at, but the point is that now he is pretty used to being put in bed awake and although I have to tell him and sometimes lay him back down several times, he is falling asleep eventually this way. Last night though he thought of a way to keep getting up. He would lay down for a minute and then pop his head up and make a smacking sound with his lips reaching over for a kiss from me. He kept repeating this and of course it totally stole my heart for a few minutes until I realized he was never going to stop because he found a way to keep from falling asleep. I finally had to say, "Okay, Justin, last kiss goodnight and then it's bedtime." He tried to kiss me once more, and I had to tell him it was time to sleep, but he did crash after that. It was absolutely adorable though! I am sure one day he'll turn his nose up when I even ask for a kiss goodnight so I'm going to soak all these kisses up while I can!
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