Another night fight

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	I ranted about the night fight with Collin just a couple days ago.  Thought I would rant again lol.  So last night just like every other night he was up until 1am, again.  He got obsessed with his blocks, again.  He sat on the floor of his room building things, well sort of, for hours.  He made a pretty good rocket ship, which consisted of lining blocks and putting wings on the side, I was pretty impressed.  But he could not stay in his room last night.  And after hearing how a lot of peoples kiddos slept better with the parents I thought I would try.  So there we were 12:30am, him in my room out of no where, again lol. So I thought ok perfect opportunity to try and have him lay with us.  So I put on lion king, yes at 12:30am and layed him down next to me and turned off the lights.  Oye vey that was a mess.  He decided to turn into a doggy.  He kept barking and panting, then he would have to hop all over the bed, get down, get up.  And if my husband left the room and left the door open it was full on meltdown until the door was closed, the room had to be just so. As we were watching lion king he kept saying a robot was going to get the lion, the whole time.  I kept trying to figure out where there was a robot in lion king lol.  Then back to more barking and panting.  So after 1/2 hour of going bonkers I sent him back to his room where he fell asleep within 10 minutes.. We were up reading teletubbies books till 2. Gee, I should have called. You guys have three way calling?  LOL!  We were up till two-thirty watching Star Wars for about the billionth time... He slept with us in the bed, though, thank goodness, and he didn't get up until almost 10:00, which is bad, bad, bad, but I couldn't get him to stay awake before that. We're trucking out to get some melatonin this weekend. I am  cracking up...awww memory lane!  It does get better folks..I was up with Sarah till 2 p.m. for years! The trick I found was turning off lights in house~put TV on closed caption or very low with closed captioning for dh....hide all stimmy toys or obsessions way beforehand..and made her lie next to me in our bed & closed doors and I would rock her and sing her songs...I think I had about 12 or so on my list and would just sing them over and over looping them till she went to sleep & singing as low as I could..it knocked her out..I literally had to hold her with both arms though...or she would climb down..she would get upset but I just kept telling her its bedtime and sang to her ignoring her getting upset..eventually she calmed down and after a few nights of this she was content to let me hold her without imprisioning her:)  This was a little ritual for us for a long long time and still use it sometimes on those nights she needs it:) Good luck:) hahaha at least im not alone here.  Ugh he has a light thing.  We have to unscrew his light bulb because he wont stop playing with the switch.  And for some reason he has never been able to sleep next to me.  Not even as a baby he just couldnt do it.  My daughter always did.  He just cant stay still and hops around all over the place on the bed.  If I try to cuddle him to hold him still he goes into meltdown.  The funny part was even after he went in his own room me and my husband finished watching Lion King. We should just do some sort of conference call on those nights haha Sorry if you've covered this before--I'm fairly new and have a bad memory anyhow.  But have you already tried completely eliminating certain foods from his diet?  The aversion to cuddling, lightbulb obsession, and sleep difficulties you describe remind me heavily of how my son behaved before going gfcf.  He still sometimes throws a little tantrum before bed, but now he can be redirected and disciplined successfully, whereas before he did not respond to either.
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