Big Boy Bed!

We FINALLY brought up Matthew's big boy bed and took the crib down today, just in time for naptime. However as expected, he wouldn't go to sleep. After 5 minutes he escaped, and announced to us "I'm all done now". Nice try. I put him back in his bed, where he bamboozles a story out of me. I read the story and tell him it's time for a nap. I leave the room and he brings out Stall Tactic #3: "Mooooommmmmmyyyyyyyy! I need my new truck!". OK I get him the truck and inform him this is the last time I'm coming in. He didn't call me again, however he chose to play with his new truck on the bookcase headboard of his new bed. All you could hear was scrape, scrape, scrape back and forth on the headboard. So after about half an hour, I let him out.

Fast forward 2 hours. We're in his room putting storybooks on the new headboard and I tell him this means he can read whenever he wants. There's no response. I turn around to find him laying on the floor, snuggling his blanket with his thumb in his mouth. "Are you tired Buddy?" I ask him. "Uh-huh", he replies. So begins the second round of trying to get him to nap in his new bed. He brings out the usual stall-tactics:
1) Gotta watch Dora first
2) Gotta go see Daddy downstairs
3) No kisses for anyone (cuz he knows this is the last thing to do before going to sleep)
4) Need a story
5) Read it again
6) Read another one
7) Leave the door open a little bit
8) No you have to leave it more open
Then he must repeat the list in an attempt to wear me down.

After crying/pleading for about 5 minutes, he has crashed in his new bed. However it's now 4 pm which means we're gonna be up late again tonight as a result. Oh well, at least I won the battle.

However we're waiting for Babcia (Chris' Mom) to bring over the bedrails. Stay tuned to find out if he falls out of bed. LOL