The Battle at Bedtime

Ok, so Hudson doesn't really "fight" going to bed.....he just always prefers for Greg or I to lie down with him.  We have gotten to where we don't do it anymore, but he still ALWAYS asks (or begs) us to. 

Last night, we learned how 'crafty' he is becoming is his ways of trying to persuade us.  Let me preface this by saying that he had a very short nap at school and was pretty cranky all evening.  This combination typically makes bedtime pretty easy b/c he is so tired, but not this night.  Not this night at all....

So, at 8:30 lights out.  Ahhhh....peace and quiet for mom and dad.  WRONG.  Hudson starts yelling "DAD!" from his bed and I give Greg the "I will kill you if you go in there look".  He stays.
So, after a few minutes Hudson starts yelling "MOM!, MOMMY!!!"  From my comfy seat in the living room I finally respond, "WHAT?" to which he replies "I need you".  Sooo, I get up out of my comfy seat and go in and he says he needs his blankie - aka "lanky" and babydoll.  A perfectly legitimate request.  (Yes, he now sleeps with a babydoll.  Not just any babydoll....it was MY babydoll when I was little.  That's just too sweet and too sentimental, so I let him do it.  Knowing full-well that it is certain that there will be ramifications of doing so.)  Anywho, I get the lanky and babydoll, kiss him once again and tell him goodnight. 

A few minutes later, more "MOMMY, DADDY!!".....we try as long as we can to ignore it, but then finally my fuse had "met it's maker" and I stormed into the room and said "WHAT!" again.  His reply was this: "Mom, it is YOUR bedtime too.  You are very tired and your eyes are closing and you are yawning and you need to come to bed RIGHT NOW."  Then his voice softens and continues...."Mom, you are sooo sleepy and you are yawning.  You just need to come to bed with me.  Right now."  

Yikes.

If I wouldn't have known better, he might have actually convinced me he was right.  So, what Greg and I determined last night is that we are in trouble.  BIG trouble.  This kid is the master-of-all-masters of manipulation and while WE do our best not to give in and let him know that we are "the boss", I know we are in for the battle of our lives with this one.  And yet somehow, I'm looking forward to every bit of it. 

Well, better get ready for the day ahead....I"m shopping for a suit-of-armor today.  :)