Our latest battle has been nap time. I realize I am one of the lucky ones whose child still takes a nap at 3, but this child NEEDS a nap every afternoon - trust me, I have seen what happens when he doesn't get one, and it ain't pretty. For some reason nap time has become the best time to pull out all the stops for postponing the inevitable:
"Sing two songs, no one more"
"I need to go pee pee"
"Let's read a book"
"I wanted to get in bed myself"
"I wanted to do a flip into bed"
"I want to put this toy on the shelf"
"My feet aren't covered up"
It's all enough to make this crazy, hormonally imbalanced pregnant mom a bit insane. In fact yesterday, after 1 1/2 hours of trying for a nap (my craziness is that I should have given up after 30 minutes) I opened the door to find that Wyatt had turned his blankie into some sort of tourniquet on his pointer finger, thus making it turn blue at the tip (good thing I checked on him) - he will stop at nothing to get me back in there to check on him. I finally gave up at 2:30 & decided I would lay on my own bed for 5 minutes to calm down, then go in & get him. Fast forward 50 minutes to when I woke on my bed at 3:20. I had the monitor on & was 1 door away, but somehow felt rattled with guilt like I was going to find Wyatt in there with one less finger & stuck under his bed.
I opened the door quietly only to find him haven broken every possible rule - the blinds open, all of the lights on, everything thrown out of the bed & him on the floor next to his bookshelf reading a book. I guess he had given up too. "Hi Mom! Wanna read this with me?" was his greeting - how could I be mad? After all, at least one of us got a nap.
2 comments:
I am right there with you....we need to share battle stories and TACTICS!!!
Oh we struggle with this too-- nap time is now "quiet time" and it's barely that. N sleeps GREAT the he's at daycare but rarely when he's home with me. Hmmpfff.
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