Sleepless in toddlerville

Do you ever wish you could be in two places at the same time? I swear this just gets worse when you become a parent. My little Geronimo has had a rough couple of nights. I think it just a combination of some changes in his routine that have thrown him off. He's usually the best sleeper of the bunch. By the time he was a year old I could read to him, rock him, nurse him and put him in his crib and he would sleep for 12 hours. He would also take at least a two hour nap during the day. Bliss. But lately he's been turning up his nose at naps and struggling to go to sleep at night. None of our usual tricks seem to work. So tonight I asked him if he was scared. Not sure it was my best idea but I thought that that might be what was keeping him up and he just didn't have the words for it. He said he was. So I told him that we could say good night to the scary things and they would go to bed. We did this several times and I thought it helped. Henry and I then went to my bed so I could get him to sleep. He is not the best sleeper and requires my bed and a nipple to sleep. As I was nursing Henry down my poor little Gmo cried in his crib. After about 5 minutes he stopped crying and starting saying "good night scary things! Ya boo! (Toddler translation- I love you)" in a very sad voice. It broke my heart. He was still saying it when I finally got Henry to sleep and walked into Gmo's room to cuddle him. We sang and talked about the scary things. I told him that dada and I are always here to keep him safe. Finally he was calm enough to go back in his crib and I rubbed his back until he fell asleep. I'll be glad when he gets back to sleeping well again, but it was nice to cuddle and sing to him tonight. I'm usually so wrapped up in getting Henry to sleep I just read one book with gmo and then he's in his crib for the night. I forget he's still a baby too, even if all I hear all day is "no!" and "I do it myself!".