rough stuff

So right now we are going through some transitional periods with Logan...some have been "not too bad" and others are proving to be trying at best! First, just let me say that I was not stupid enough to do all of this at the same time...this had been happening for a while now!
Transition #1 - Bottle detachment - we have been slowly taking the bottle away from Logan...some would say that we waited too long...to tell you the truth, I have no idea when the right time was. Anyway, around Thanksgiving, my sister said that he shouldn't be on the bottle anymore, so we slowly started decreasing the #. He has been on sippy cups since he was a year old, but he also had bottles...so anyway, by Christmas he was down to only having a bottle before bed. So in short, it was very easy to reduce the amount of bottles, but it was more difficult to take it completely away. Part of it is my fault, because it is just easier to give him a bottle...but I have been holding steady, and I will say that he has had a few, but VERY few.
Transistion #2 - Bedtime - Since I quit my job we have been trying to move Logan's bedtime to a normal hour. For 7 months we put Logan to sleep right before I left for work, so that he would sleep longer and I could actually get some sleep. So we put him to bed around 1:00 am...I know that sounds awful, but it worked for us. Anyway, after I quit we decided that he needed a decent bedtime...THIS HAS BEEN HELL!!! We tried moving it up 30 minutes at a time...which is basically just hit or miss....sometimes he goes night night, sometimes he doesn't....this is where the temptation to give in to the bottle comes in....Most nights he will lay in bed and talk (see previous blog for video). He will lay there with out squirming or trying to get up, but he talks non-stop. We have finally gotten to 11:00, but I still want him in bed earlier...GRRR!
Transistion #3 - Sleeping in his own crib - This IS ALSO HELL!!! After Logan was born he slept with us for the first couple of months....I had been warned by many that we needed to put him in his crib early so that we wouldn't have a problem with it. BUT...we were stupid....from month 3 to 14 he pretty much always slept in his crib, then his once a week, once every two weeks, all of a sudden turned into more and more often, until it was every night. Of course, the every night thing really started up when I took the job with the paper. So I wanted to get him back to his crib, and it hasn't been easy...at all. Today was the second day in this process...but really only the first REAL day...see the other night we put him in his crib several times, because we were just trying to get some sleep...but it turned out that whether he was in the bed with us or in the crib, we weren't going to get any sleep. When he was in bed with us...he was jumping on us, talking, calling Dexter...when he was in the crib, he was screaming bloody murder..It was a very long night and even longer day! So he slept with us last night, I set my alarm and Logan and I got up at 9 this morning. At 12:30 I told him it was nap time, and I took him to his room and laid him in his crib...I didn't just lay him down for no reason, he was sleepy, so I laid him down. At 2:00 he was still screaming, so I went and picked him up.....I know, I am supposed to stay strong, but It had been an hour and a half...if it hadn't happened by then...it wasn't going to happen. So I got him up and we played after, of course, I comforted him. At 3:30 he was doing the head nod, and he even tried to lay on the kitchen floor to take a nap...EWWW! I promptly picked him up, rocked with him for a bit, then laid him in the crib. His eyes shot wide open and the screaming began. At 4:45 I went to pick him up...same process. This time I walked around holding him for a bit until it seemed that he was asleep, then I went another 10 min! I laid him in the crib, he immediately woke up...screaming ensued. JR got home around 6 and I started dinner, Logan was still screaming so I went to pick him up. He said hellp to his dad and played for a few minutes, then curled up next to him and fell asleep. I let him stay for about 5 minutes..picked him up put him back in the crib....guess what...he started screaming!!! I finished dinner then went next door to chat (JR was still in the house) I chatted for a while with Nikki, then went back to eat, and Logan stopped crying for about 15 minutes, but I guess he heard us moving around and woke us a started screaming again, so I went to get him AGAIN! I guess his 15 minute nap gave him some sort of energy because he was going strong for a while. At 10:30 he got a bath from JR, had his sippy cup of milk,and about 30 minutes later he fell asleep. I wasn't ready to go through the battle again so I just let him sleep for a while...SO yes I CHEATED....but in my defense, after he was asleep for a good 30 minutes, okay maybe 45 I went and took him to his crib, where he is sleeping soundly...for now! So hopefully he will wake up tomorrow and see that the crib isn't so bad, and tomorrow will be much easier! HOPEFULLY! I will let you know how it goes....but like an idiot....I am awake, and it is 1:30 in the morning...so night night...I need some sleep, especially if tomorrow was anything like today!