Battle of Wills

There has been an ongoing battle over here at the Leptuch household. It is Ava (and Bobo, Fee-fee, and paci) vs. Mom and Dad at bedtime. As I mentioned before, when we put her down in her crib at night, she has been immediately throwing Bobo, Fee-fee and paci out of the crib and crying for mommy or daddy. She actually says "mommy, are you?" or "daddy, are you? Translation: mommy or daddy, where are you? Then we would go in and pick them up and put them in her crib.As soon as we would walk out the door, she would throw them out again. This would go on for an hour sometimes. Finally we said enough is enough. A two year old is not going to rule us. So we let her throw them out and let her cry for about 8-10 minutes and then would go in and tell her to go to sleep and that she couldn't have them back because she threw them out of her crib. We would leave and she would cry harder. This would go on for a while and finally we would give in and give her one of the three. The first night it was paci. Then she woke up at 1:15 am crying for us, really wanting her Bobo. After about an hour, we gave her bobo and she went to bed. The 2nd night, it happened again. After about 15 minutes, Mike gave her Bobo. This time she slept until 3 am in which I gave her paci. Fast forward to the 3rd night and she went down without a fight and did not throw anything out of her crib and she slept in until 6 am. Let's hope it will happen again tonight!