If you didnt want to take a nap when you were little you would just cry until you fell asleep.. Nothing you could really do about it, nap time means you are taking a nap. Mom has that off button which allows your crying to not affect her decision on the nap. A childs nap time is necessary.. It preserves the little bit of sanity we are trying so desperately to hold to.
My Taylor... Smart. Very smart. She cries, then she screams, then she rattles the bars on the crib like a prisoner in jail, then she kicks, the she calms, the calm before the storm.. This is when she knows I will have to take her out of the crib...
She screams, then throws everything out of the crib, flails her body around to the point where I am afraid she is going to crack her head open. Here's the point where she is smarter than me. She pushes the nipple in on her bottle & dumps the whole thing over her head. OVER HER HEAD.
She KNOWS this requires an immediate bath, followed by Mommy stripping her bed & washing down the crib. Knowing this, she is very satisfied that she bought herself an extra 20 -30 minutes out of the crib.
After she is more than happy to lay down quietly & nap. I am left without the sanity I was trying to preserve.. scratching my head wondering how I was one upped by a 17 month old.
Her nap time bottles have been changed to water, she hasn"t out smarted me yet.. I think I still have another few months before she does.
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