Well it has begun. Over the weekend, Ray did not nap on either Saturday or Sunday which led to very unfortunate evenings for all. We thought, okay he'll go back to daycare and nap there and we'll be back on schedule. He did nap at daycare yesterday but when it came to night night time here's how things went down:

7:15 – mom reads to ray for around 15 minutes.

7:30 – mommy hug time. Ray starts with “no no” and “sing sing” and “e i e i o” Mommy sings around 5 rounds of old McDonald and tells Ray that it is night night time and to go get in bed with Pooh bear.

7:35 – Much screaming and crying for mommy begins.

7:45 – I make in 10 minutes (I’m out of practice) before going in to say night night again.

7:46 - Much screaming and crying for mommy begins.

8:00 – Jon is doing the dishes and Mom is upstairs. All sounds quite in Ray’s room on the monitor. Then I hear Jon say “hi Ray” Ray had come out to the kitchen on his own (first time).

8: 01 – Daddy herds Ray back to bed. I think he read to him and then put him back to bed.

8:05 – Ray comes out of room and Dad herds him back to bed, no reading.

8:07 – Ray comes out the room and tires to run past daddy to get to the “rug” room.  This continue every 2 to 5 minutes for the next hour.

9:00 – Jon turns the reigns over to mommy so he can get to studying.

9:02 – For the next hour I go through the same thing. At the end he is just getting to open the door and I’d say “Back to bed Ray” and he would turn around and put pooh bear and back on the bed and climb in, lie down, I’d put the blanket over him and then in 2 minutes we’d start the cycle over.

10:10 – He finally falls asleep.

5:30 the next morning – The whole things starts over and daddy spends the next 1 ½ getting Ray to go back to bed.

7:00 – Mom gets him up at his regular time and he seems fine. Daddy is exhausted.

We’ll see how things go tonight.