Bedtime...

Bedtime is supposed to be easy right? Painless right? Sweet dreams as you drift off to sleep?



NOT at our house these days. Here is a typical nightly nightmare, I mean, ummm routine.



8pm

"Kasey and Dillon, time for bed. Everyone go to the bathroom."

At this point in time we argue over who's going first in the front bathroom, nobody wants to use daddy's bathroom.



8:15

Every on has used the potty and is on their way to the respective bedrooms. Chocolate milk in hands.
Kisses and hugs all around, music on, lights off, prayers said, etc.

(now the fun begins)

8:30

Dillon: "Mommy I need to go pee."

Me: " You just went pee, ok, get up and go and get back to bed!"

8:45

Kasey: "I need a kiss and a hug!"
We proceed to go in there kiss and hug again, restart music and readjust the covers.

9pm
By this time I am doing dishes, sweeping the floor trying to make some sort of general order out of chaos. OR I am in bed, exhausted.

9:15
Kasey wanders into our room on her tippy toes, "Mom, I need to tell you something"
"Ok Kasey, what? Then go go BED!" (frustration level rising)
"I Love You..."
"Love you too babe (heart melting)"

9:30
I hear a rustle in the hall way, and hear a tiny whisper. Next a little blond head peeks around the corner..."Mom, I wanna sleep in your bed."
"NO Dillon, go to Sleep!!!!"

Repeat appearances for next 10 minutes before Mommy and Daddy go CRAZY!

Surely this isn't normal. Does bed time go smoothly for you?

What's your trick to get out beneath the grips of the master manipulators?