Update!

Thanks to all who responded via email! Great ideas and greatly appreciated. I have combined several ideas and the last couple naps/nights have been blissful :) Hallelujah! Luckily Remy has been going down for a nap at the same time as Emil for the last couple of days. And he usually is in bed an hour before Emil at night. SOOOO, that being said. We have decided to continue our regular nightime routine, bath/jammies/cartoon/brush teeth/read book/tuck in bed/pray/lights out. Then either Jeremy or I: stand outside his closed door, if he gets up once we bring him back to bed and tuck him in again and let him know that it is his warning. If he gets up a second time he gets a spanking. And each subsequent time we follow that rule. once he is in bed and staying there we go in and tell him how proud of him we are for staying in bed, and let him know that we love him (makes me feel better after spanking him) and tuck him in again. After that he has stayed in bed. So we had to do that twice....and since he is only getting up once (the warning one) and then not again so NO SPANKING Yeah!!!! We need to stay consistent with this method and I think that we will beat this faze after all. I feel so much better having found something that works. Wow being a parent is definitely about trying all kinds of different disciplining methods until one sticks for your child. Aside from that! the weather is pretty rough today so we are staying in and loving it!