Did I do it?

Silence...really?  Did I really manage to out-stubborn him?  It's been several minutes in which I haven't had to retrieve him from running around the house and the banging, playing, and talking to himself have ceased.  Am I jinxing it by writing this?

Let me remind myself how adorable he really is by posting some pictures of last weekend.

UPDATE...OK, while that was uploading, obviously-still-not-asleep Elias came in and climbed into bed with me.  I gave up, we snuggled, and he was sound asleep in 5 minutes, followed shortly by me.  What a trying day.  It's so frustrating that the myriad of important things I had planned to catch up on over the weekend were completely neglected in favor of the "simple" task of putting a toddler down for a nap.

I can't do it

This is not a happy post.  We're going on over 2 hrs now of trying to get Elias to take a nap.  He really needs one and even complained that he was "so sleepy."  Yet he won't stay in bed.  His longest stint has been about 5 minutes, and that only at first.  Now he's up the second I'm out of sight.  I'm at the end of my rope trying everything I can think of.  For the first 1.5 hr or so it was just wordlessly, emotionlessly returning him to bed.  I've also tried just locking him in there and ignoring the banging, which then turned to playing w any noisy toy he could find.  Unfortunately, he can reach the light and doornob now.  One of the best ones is locking myself in my room and feigning sleep, but he can still break in and climb on me to tell me he's awake.  He's lost his toys and our planned cookie-making session--lots of tears, but still won't stay down.  I actually counted the tears as a minor victory for me, as most of this he just views as a huge fun game.  It's infuriating.  And now rather than accomplish lots of housework while he was in bed I'm too exhasted to do anything, and myself need a nap.  Help!