The baby who wouldn't go to sleep

Bax is back to not sleeping. G moved his whole room around after many many moans from Bax of "My room is too too scary". Now Bax says his room is not not scary but he still won't go to sleep.

We have a new bedtime procedure which involves putting him into bed, turning off the light and sitting in his big chair until he goes to sleep. Last few nights G has been in there for 14 minutes with him. Last night it was my turn.

I read him a story (or four) put him into bed, went and sat in the big chair, turned off the light, ignored him. Toughest bit is not falling asleep yourself!

But Bax wouldn't sleep. He yelled at me "Go away Mummy" "Get out of my room" "I don't like this Mummy". Then he started reading a book called That's not my tractor. And for a while there he randomly yelled out bits from the story combined with morther focused assaults. "Go away Mummy, that's not my tractor, I don't like you mummy, it's headlights are too shiny, get out of here mummy, it's trailer is too scratchy. That's not my tractor Mummy!"

Getting more and more sleepy his words became slurred. "Get out of my thinking chair mummy (a cross-textual reference to Blue's Clues)" "That's my tractor, go away mummy."

45 minutes later. I left him to it and went downstairs to G. I could still hear Bax in the distance "Mummy come back! Mummy Don't leave me! Mummy it's engine is too rough!"

G went up and did his version of the procedure. 6 minutes later he was back in front of the telly with his feet up.

Reminds me: I was joking to Bax the other day saying that Puha (our alpha female chicken) was the boss of all of us. Bax said "Huha's not the boss, Daddy is." I had to check "Daddy?" I asked. Bax nodded "Daddy is the big boss of all of us!"