can't stay long will come back and do proper catch up tonight hopefully, just wanted to let you know kellee of something i did with my kids when getting them to sleep in a bed during the day.

i had a cd/tape player in their room with batteries (no cord incase they wrapped it around their neck) anyway i got some of those book/tape things you know where you have the book and they read the story, i used to put that on during nap times and say lay down with your book and the lady on your cd player will read you a story, 99% of the time they would be asleep on their bed before the tape ended \/ . with my first dd i didn't have a tape deck or anything so what i did was turned the monitor around, put hers in front of our sterio and the parents one in her room then played the tape on our main stereo and it came through the monitor.

the tape really worked for us, and i used to say if they got out of bed before it finished then i would have to take it out of their room, my ds is nearly 6 and he still goes to bed with his own, although now he listens to the radio and i just turn it off before i go to bed at night, he loves laying in bed on a cold night listening to the footy lol.

might be worth a shot - you never know charlie might love it.

good luck, he certainly sounds like a cheeky monkey - how cute.

hi to all, back later to catch up