What Do I Do?

If you've been following along with Joshua's blog from the beginning then you know about our sleep issues with him. For almost two months he's been sleeping in his own bed, in his room. Well, this past weekend he's been begging to come to our bed. I refused to give in (Yeah for me) but we still ended up a couple of times a night.

Today I removed the TV and DVD player from his room. We worked really hard to get him to sleep in his bed, but it took letting him watch a cartoon until he fell asleep and we would go shut it off, just to have him wake up a few hours later wanting it back on. Last night I literally sat in a corner of his room and eventually fell asleep on the floor myself in order to get him to sleep in his bed and room without the TV on. It took THREE HOURS.

So, what am I supposed to do? I don't know if I can handle sitting on the floor or sleeping on it for that matter just to get him to stay in his bed and go to sleep. As I've said in the past it can be 10pm or later before he falls asleep. I'm really working on getting him down at a decent hour, like 8pm at the latest so that Raul and I can have some time to ourselves on occasion, but rarely happens because even if Joshua is asleep by 8pm so is Daddy because he has to get up at 3:30am to get ready for work.

I hope the removal of the TV and DVD helps and he stays in his bed and goes to sleep. We'll just have to see how long this takes to kick in. I want to be able to tell him to go to sleep, tuck him in, leave the room, and know that he will stay put and go to sleep.