ROFL pistachio! 
I remember when I was saying the animal sounds and pointing to animals for Q while doing a puzzle one day a while ago when he was just learning the names of animals, too and I said "who says quack/moo...etc."? and he would say "mommy!"
So. Q is sleeping through the night. He has been for a while. Yeah, he'll wake for 5 second at around 3 or 4 or 5 in the morning but then just wants to get into our bed and cuddle and go back to sleep, which is fine with me :) 
and he is very tired at 7pm (bedtime). Same routine of dinner, bath, stories, put star light on, turn "scout" nighttime music on, get tiger and tractor and he used to say "night night" and tell us to go to the door. He'd happily fall asleep on his own.
Now he cries and screams when we put him in his bed. It's a toddler bed, not a cot but he will not ever get out of it once he's been put in. He will in the day if he's playing but never from a nap or bedtime. 
He'll cry and point to our bed, but won't get out.
Lately, he's been crying for soooooooo long at bedtime. So much that DH has gone in and lay down with him until he falls asleep (Q in our bed with DH). Then he puts him back in his bed. I do NOT want to get into this habit. Last night, dh was at a school open evening and I let Q cry :( I went in to reassure him often, but it lasted for 1 hour.
I asked cm to cut his naps down to just an hour - hour and a half and she has done so, but it's made no difference (just made him grumpier in the afternoons, in fact!). He's sleeping through the night and definitely tired at 7, so I seriously doubt it's the naps. In fact, since cutting down the naps, he shows he's ready for bed by 5pm, which is just too early! (because, selfishly, we want to play with him for as long as we can and enjoy 4pm-7pm).
So, any suggestions after that long winded rambling post? . I want my easy going to bed baby back!
How was N's birthday, Myjob?