um...really i can just say you are not alone. eli will be three in 2 weeks, and he is a nightmare to put to sleep. we are talking 2 to 3 hours of running around the house, waking up his siblings, screaming "i will NOT go to bed." no one believed it was as bad as we made it sound. then both of our moms came to visit back to back. they could not believe what they saw. he controls this house until about 10 p.m. every night! i am not sure what to do either, i've tried alot of things, everyone has a different opinion....but the only thing i can say is keep trying new things until you find something that works.
one thing i am worried about, bc eli also wakes up after being asleep, is night terrors. he wakes up screaming. last night, it happend at 5 in the morning....i ran up the stairs. he was thrashing aroudn in his bed SCREAMING "no, no...." it was the worst one i have ever seen. i wasn't sure whether or not to wake him up when he screamed, "NO......do NOT turn on channel 66!!!!!!" lol....that's the disney channel here. he must've been having a sleep fight with his brother over whether they would watch curious george on 8 or something on the disney channel. lol.....it was nice to know that some things that "terrorize" eli are a little more innocent than i thought by the way he screams.
