Since Gordy first started sleeping in his own crib, we've had the same nightly routine - shower, dinner, brush teeth, kiss daddy, books in his room, lights out, honu light on, milk, and then into bed. He's always been relatively good about the whole thing until about 4 or 5 months ago. I'd put him in his bed and then he'd spend the next 45 minutes coming up with reasons that he needed to get out of his crib which ranged from needing to go pee, needing to go poop, needing his Elmo, needing more kisses from daddy, etc...
We finally got sick of the whole thing and decided to change it up. Our new routine is shower, dinner, milk on the couch, brush teeth and go pee pee on the potty. Then, he and I stand at his bedroom door where he gives me a hug and a kiss before yelling, "daddy ready!" to Todd. The two of them go into Gordy's room for a few books, they turn on his starry-skied honu light, catch the moon on their hands a few times, and then hop into bed. Gordy is super happy with his new evening agenda, I get 10-15 minutes of time to myself, and Todd gets to help by doing a no-nonsense into bed routine.
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