How to delay going to bed

Liam has quite a bag of tricks in delaying bedtime. Here are the things he tried in a single night:

Mommy puts him in his crib, says goodnight and leaves the room.
Liam: "mama, mama"
Mommy: "Liam, what do you need?"
Liam: "I want some water"
So mommy and Liam goes to get water and then back to bed. Mommy leaves to get herselves ready for bed.
Liam: "Mama, Mama"
Mommy: "Yes Liam, what is wrong?"
Liam: "My hand..."
Mommy: "What is wrong with your hand?" and notices Liam has put his hand in between the crib slats. It is not stuck but he insists Mommy needs to help. So, mommy pulls his hand back, tucks him in again, says goodnight and leaves the room again.
Liam: "Mama, Mama"
Mommy: "Liam, it's time to go to sleep"
Liam: "I have the hiccups, need to drink some water"
Mommy and Liam goes to get water; at the same time Mommy observes that Liam doesn't have the hiccups.
Mommy: "Liam, I don't hear any hiccups"
Liam: "I had one earlier"
After a sip of water, it is back to bed for Liam.
While Mommy is tucking him in again, Liam is rolling, twisting all different ways.
Mommy: "What are you doing?"
Liam: "Liam wants to sleep on pillow monkey"
Ok, Mommy positions his pillow monkey so he can rest his head on it.
Mommy: "Good night Liam, go to sleep"
Mommy goes to her room.
Liam: "mama, mama"
Mommy: "Liam, go to sleep!"
Liam (moving his head around): "I am not comfortable"
Mommy: "Well, let's not sleep on the pillow monkey" and removes the pillow monkey.
Liam: "I am comforable now"
Mommy bids goodnight and leaves again.
Liam: "Mama, Mama, come keep Liam company"
Mommy comes back and lays down on the floor next to Liam. Liam is asleep within minutes...

Getting dressed woes

Liam does not like to get dressed in the morning and preferrs to spend as much time as he can in his PJs. It is always a struggle to get him dressed in the morning....

3/18/2010: It's 11AM and PaoPao (Grandma) has spent an hour trying to convinced him to change. When Liam still refuses, she goes downstairs and tells him that she will come back up when he is ready to get dressed. Seeing that his playmate is gone, he sits at the top of the stairs yelling repeatly "PaoPao, come back". PaoPao stands at the bottom of the stairs and asks "yes Liam, what is it?" Liam responds "I want to get dressed now". PaoPao says "oh good, you want to get dressed. Are you really going to get dressed when I come up or are you fibbing?" To PaoPao's dismay, Liams says "I am fibbing." Well, at least he is honest about not being honest.

3/28/2010: Another morning when Liam doesn't want to get dressed. After reading 3 "last" book, Mommy tells him that she is not going to read anymore until he gets dressed. Still refusing to go upstairs to change, Mommy stands up and tells Liam "all right, I am going upstairs to wait for you. You can stay here and read by yourself". Liam angrily puts down the book and says "I don't know how to read!".