Plan of Action

Last night Sunny slept like a log, of course. But tonight Guy and I are ready with a plan of action.

If Sunny wakes us up at four in the morning:

1) He gets a hug and instructions on how to go back to sleep. If that doesn't work...
2) One of us will lie next to him in his bed for a while to see if we can get him to go back to sleep. If that doesn't work...
3) He will get instructions to play quietly in his room while we sleep. If that doesn't work and he escalates (almost certain at this stage)...
4) Door-slamming will get the door taken off the hinges. I told Guy I want the hammer and WD-40 ready. Hitting, kicking or biting will mean he gets held down until he stops. Screaming and insulting means he gets taken out to the car and put in the backseat, with one of us in the front, until he stops raging and can give a real apology, however long this takes.

I just hope we don't have to implement any of these stages tonight. I've still got that nagging low-grade cold and my throat feels terrible. I'm going to take some cold medicine soon and go to bed early.

Sunny's behavior has been pouty but overall decent. These last two nights we've spent the hour before bedtime playing Scrabble, and he gets whipped because he can't build words bigger than three letters... but he always tries hard and handles losing well.