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You know what would be fantastic? If just once when I say to Henry that it's time for a nap, he goes upstairs, reads a book with me, climbs into his bed, lays down, accepts kisses from all of his stuffed animals, snuggles in under his blankets, and goes to sleep. Although if he did do this once, that would create an expectation that he'd do it again and I'm sure it would only lead to disappointment. My kid sure can protest. And procrastinate.

Meanwhile, ever since Dave got back from his conference, whenever I'm around Henry insists that I be the one to do things. This is especially true when it's time to wash his hands and face before bed. We go into the upstairs bathroom and if Dave is with us, Henry insists that he leave the room. In fact, he insists that Daddy go into Henry's room. When we're all done in the bathroom, Henry then kicks him out of his bedroom and wants him to go downstairs. The other night he asked Dave to leave so Dave stood around in the hallway. When Henry noticed him in the mirror, he said "No, no daddy stand in the hallway, go like this!" then he climbed down off of his stool, walked into the hallway, then walked into his bedroom, physically demonstrating exactly where he wanted Dave to go. It was hilarious and odd all at the same time. This isn't a problem if I happen to be out of the house; as long as I'm nowhere to be seen, Henry's perfectly fine with being put to bed by Dave.

There are three things I'd like to accomplish by the end of the summer: lose the binky once and for all (we had a minor setback), get him into a big boy bed, and potty train him. The most important one is the potty training since he's going to be going to preschool in September and there's a moratorium on diaper changes there, but I'd like to wait on that one until the weather gets a little warmer. I'm not terrifically pushed to get him out of his toddler bed and I'm also not terrifically pushed to spend money on a new bed period, so losing the binky got bumped up to the top of the list. We started with his nap yesterday. So far so good. He asked for it a lot yesterday afternoon and evening, but today he only asked about it once. He's been a bit crabby but that's understandable. Hopefully it'll soon be a distant memory. I'm pretty proud of him for handling it as well as he is, and I'm also proud of myself for managing to put off the whole potty training thing. Again.