In His Toddler Bed & First Movie!

We started last week...putting Jack down for his nap in his toddler bed and we are having mixed success. We started by putting a new Pottery Barn "Little Sailor" comforter on the bed and making it all up. Jack was thrilled and sat down on the bed and talked about the boats. He got in the bed and under the covers smiling. He loved it, lying there with his little head on the pillow.

The next day Paul put him in the bed for his nap (he had fallen asleep in the car so Paul put him directly into the toddler bed) and he did great. When he woke up he sat there on the edge of the bed and looked around and then got up and called for Daddy.

The next day, after Paul put him in his bed for his nap, he got up and was moving about the room playing with his toys for hours. He kept getting back on the bed but then getting up to play some more. He finally fell asleep around 4:00 (at least 3 hours later than normal).

The next day Paul had to rock him to sleep and then put him into the bed...but he woke up after just an hour and half (he usually sleeps for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.)

Since then it has been hit or miss. A lot of playing in the room with toys instead of laying in the bed...crying...not wanting to lay down...thrashing around...and not falling asleep for hours unless we rock him to sleep.

We continue to work with him. It has been about 6 days...and hopefully we can work through this. He had another good day on the bed today.

In the meantime he continues to add to his vocabulary and is talking so well. It is amazing. He repeating almost everything that we say and asking for words for things that he wants to say. On Sunday after church (Jack stayed in the playroom during the mass for the first time and LOVED it) we told him to say goodbye to everybody and he said "Buh ebybubby". It was so cute.

We took him to see the Polar Express on Friday night. We sat in about the 7th row and he (loving trains more than anything right now) was glued to his seat the entire movie! I thought he was a bit young for a movie that lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes...but he never got bored for a second...just kept piling popcorn into his mouth without taking his eyes off the screen. After the movie he kept saying "purr stress" and told his Nana about "Shanta" and the "prusents" and the "bell".

His new kick is wanting to "play" Aggravation. It is an old board game with marbles that you move around the board. We all sit around and roll the die and move the marbles and he loves it. He also sometimes stops and looks out of the sides of his eyes when he is embarrassed or being silly. It is so cute that I laugh every time that I see him do that. So we now say "give me those eyes" and he squinches up his eyes and acts like a big ham to get us to laugh. He is doing so many cute things now...it is hard to remember all of them. I love him more than anything on earth.