toddler kicks off blanket, then wakes up crying...!! Help!

[vmcdonald28]

my nearly two-year-old ds kicks off his blanket before going to sleep at night. In fact, he wont really let us put it over him and tuck him in, in the first place. We put the blanket over him before we go to bed, and everything is fine. However, he's started waking a  couple of times in the night, making this very aggravating moaning/crying noise. The first couple of nights, he went back to sleep without us having to get out of bed, but the last 3 nights, he keeps making this ridiculous noise till one of us goes and puts the cover over him, then he INSTANTLY goes back to sleep.

I dont think the room is cold at all - 21 degrees. And he's happy to sleep for hours without his blanket, before we go to bed.

Now, we're new to blankets, cos my ds always used a grobag till about a month ago.

So, does anyone have any suggestions they could make, how we could get him to pull his own blanket over himself, or how can we stop him being annoyed if we try to tuck the blanket in over him...?

[dkjokisch]

Dd has a blanket in her bed, but she never stays covered.  In fact, she insists on blankets for each of the cats she sleeps with.  When she outgrew the sleep sacks, we just started putting fleecy blanket sleepers with feet over her normal pj's. 

[Lucysmom]

We also put Lucy in fuzzy blanket sleepers with feet.  Underneath she has a long sleeve undershirt and long sleeve cotton footie pj's.  We do put a blanket on her but she kicks it off.

My sister puts her ds in a real sleeping bag like you would use if you were camping.  It is a lighter weight one but it stays on him pretty well since he is actually IN it.