Sounds good.

Does he fall asleep in the pram? Once the baby arrives keeping up the car trip tactic might be challenging. I find it a pain in the bottom to load everyone in and out.

When we have sleep refusal days and I can see that he really needs one, I pop everyone in the pram and off we go. A quick trip around the block and normally he's out. I can then drive the pram right up to his bed and it's much easier to transfer him into his bed.

FWIW I don't think what you did is a 'threat'. It's setting boundries and very, very clear consequences.

Something else I'm mentally preparing both of us for is the dropping of the sleep all together. My son likes watching movies (mainly Thomas and Wiggles) on the iPad so I'm thinking that as he refuses sleep more and more I will let him watch a movie on the iPad in his bed. Once when he wasn't going to sleep after about 45 minutes I gave him the ipad and within 10 mins he was asleep.

Anyway, hope all goes back to normal after the child care days.