EUREKA!!! I figured it out!

So I finally figured out why Braden hasn't been sleeping! I kinda figured it had something to do with this but now I'm sure! With his new found skill (pulling himself up to a stand), came the need to practice it all the time. So when we'd put him in his crib, he'd instantly go to a standing position. This might be alright when he learns how to get himself down, but he can't do that yet, so he gets stuck. Then Mom or Dad needs to go in and help him down. Then he gets mad because we just came in but didn't get him up, so he get's frustrated and stands up again. Then we have to go back in. Can you see a cycle happening here? I try to leave him in there to let him figure it all out, but he usually gets so upset he falls and wooden bars + little Braden head = not a calming situation. So we stuck him in his Pack 'n Play. I think it was like 5:30am and Braden was wide awake. Neither of us were getting up that early, especially since it had been a long night of Braden waking up every 2 hours to practice standing, so we figured he could stand in there and if he fell it wouldn't hurt- it's got mesh sides and no wood. But instead we found that he CAN'T stand in there. He hasn't figured out how to push against the mesh, so he has nothing to grab onto to lift himself. So what does he do instead? He SLEEPS!!!!! So that's where he's been taking his naps and where we've put him for bedtime. And it's worked! He took all of his naps yesterday and only woke up once during the nighttime. Thank goodness we figured it out just in the nick of time. A week of no naps and wakeful nights... I was starting to go a bit nutty!