hahahaha (manically laughing)

[redheadk]

Lol!

My mom babysat while DH and I went to a wedding last night. She let DD stay up until 10:30 when we got home so it was after 11 by the time DD fell asleep. I'm super annoyed at my mom. Then DD fell asleep while we were on our way home from the park and didn't transition inside so slept for 15 minutes. WHEE! So fun today! And DH went into the office so I'm solo parenting.

[redheadk]

Apr 26, 2015 15:58:42 GMT -5 @this said:

Oh and H tried to "bore her into napping." He took away all of her toys except for the really boring ones and wouldn't turn on the TV. He would only read her books in a calm and soothing voice. lol

Haha, this is awesome. My go to is letting her watch tv with a blanket and pillow. She may not nap but at least she's still and quiet.

[irish]

Oh, I feel your pain. That was dd2 yesterday. But I couldn't keep at it cos dd1 had a play date (and his mum) over at the time and I could let her CIO like I normally would. I picked her up and tried 2 hrs later - she wasn't thrilled but gave in. Though she only had 50 min nap instead of 2.5hrs...

Lots of wine when she goes to bed tonight!!

[Deleted]

Losing the nap is horrible. We still sometimes drive around or walk her for a while (an hour) because we know she is tired. But no success.
Last week she fell asleep at 530 watching tv. We had to wake her for dinner. She fell off the couch getting up.
Why don't they do what we need? Ever? This is best for you moron.

[Teachermama]

Apr 26, 2015 15:54:47 GMT -5 @this said:

DD has refused to nap today. We tried for three hours before giving up and we've been tag teaming each other in and out in hour intervals so that we can get the break we usually get during nap time.

But it's been... a long day.

DH is on duty right now and I just heard him say, "Mommy can't help you now! No one can help you!!!"

LOL perhaps it's time for his break.

Not funny with no nao.. but the no one cam help you I laughed

[pippa]

I've been there too. I'm usually your DH in this situation.

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Apr 26, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5 swizz said:

Apr 26, 2015 16:22:19 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

Hahaha has she napped yet? We might be dropping to one nap and I'm way more sad about it than I should be.

No!! One nap is the best! C just combined her two 90-120 naps into one 3-4 hour nap. It's the best ever!

Yes, I prefer the one nap. It's much easier to do stuff during the day and when they go down they are generally down longer.

[chickens987]

Yeah, we didn't have a nap today either. Halfway through, she removed her sleepsack and when I saw her hand come out of her diaper, I leapt into action. It was bad

[dancingirl21]

J napped for 3 hours and 45 minutes today. It was incredible and glorious. I'm sorry she didn't nap. We've had those days and they are loooong.

[kategm]

Apr 26, 2015 17:53:21 GMT -5 @awinter said:

Apr 26, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5 swizz said:

No!! One nap is the best! C just combined her two 90-120 naps into one 3-4 hour nap. It's the best ever!

Yes, I prefer the one nap. It's much easier to do stuff during the day and when they go down they are generally down longer.

1 hour long nap really isn't *that* much better than 2 30min naps.

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Apr 26, 2015 18:49:45 GMT -5 kategm said:

Apr 26, 2015 17:53:21 GMT -5 @awinter said:

Yes, I prefer the one nap. It's much easier to do stuff during the day and when they go down they are generally down longer.

1 hour long nap really isn't *that* much better than 2 30min naps.

J
ha, in that instance no. But for us, the girls were napping 1.5 to 2 hrs in the morning. Then up for a few hrs and back down. It was hard to do family outings because the morning nap interfered with them. And once they woke from that it was lunch time etc.

J was a 30 min napper though so it didn't matter. He,would nap at daycare but never did well at home until he was 1.5 or so.

[isabel]

I'm dying laughing. Know that it's in complete solidarity. My kid was up for the day at 4am.

[bearbaby]

I'm going to develop a permanent tic if I hear "MOMMY I ALL DONE SLEEPINGGGG!" over the monitor one more time this weekend...

[everafter07]

Apr 26, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5 swizz said:

Apr 26, 2015 16:22:19 GMT -5 gravytrain225 said:

Hahaha has she napped yet? We might be dropping to one nap and I'm way more sad about it than I should be.

No!! One nap is the best! C just combined her two 90-120 naps into one 3-4 hour nap. It's the best ever!

Dude you have a unicorn sleeper.

[bearbaby]

Apr 26, 2015 19:29:30 GMT -5 @natariru said:

Apr 26, 2015 19:07:13 GMT -5 bearbaby said:

I'm going to develop a permanent tic if I hear "MOMMY I ALL DONE SLEEPINGGGG!" over the monitor one more time this weekend...

I have heard "I don't like it, I don't want it" 720384 times since he came home from daycare on Wed. Wtf are they teaching them over there?! He also told H to "wait a minute".

Help.

I am told to "wait one second" a dozen times a day.

I want my money back!

[DarcyLongfellow]

I feel your pain!! Those days are lllllooooooonng!!!

We had a last minute Disney trip this weekend, so two early mornings and no nap either Saturday or Sunday. Anna is beyond exhausted!

I was driving for a while on the way home from Orlando this evening and DH was handling the (incessant) requests from the girls. We have a new minivan and DD1 now sits in the back row, which is awesome, except we can't hand her stuff. She claimed to be STARVING, so DH was lobbing cereal bars back to her. He went through an entire box because half the ones he tossed back there fell in between the seats and ended up in the trunk (how???) then the rest got lost because she'd freak out and claim she couldn't open them, so she'd try to throw it back and it would end up lost somewhere. Finally he told me, "I think we should switch. I'm failing at this."

[Deleted]

DS didn't nap today either. I had a migraine, so I laid down with DD while DH was on nap duty. DS refused to nap, kept screaming "I have choice! I don't WANT TO NAP!" I woke up 1.5 hours later, checked the monitor to see DS reading books in his bed with only a pull-up on. No shirt, no pants. DH looked like he'd seen a ghost, he was so worn out from dealing with DS's shenanigans. We put him to bed over an hour early.

[dancingirl21]

Apr 26, 2015 18:52:33 GMT -5 @this said:

Apr 26, 2015 18:49:05 GMT -5 dancingirl21 said:

J napped for 3 hours and 45 minutes today. It was incredible and glorious.

THANKS FOR SHARING COOL STORY BRO.

Hey! I commiserated at the end.

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Apr 26, 2015 20:43:01 GMT -5 @this said:

Apr 26, 2015 20:41:58 GMT -5 @supergreen said:

DS didn't nap today either. I had a migraine, so I laid down with DD while DH was on nap duty. DS refused to nap, kept screaming "I have choice! I don't WANT TO NAP!" I woke up 1.5 hours later, checked the monitor to see DS reading books in his bed with only a pull-up on. No shirt, no pants. DH looked like he'd seen a ghost, he was so worn out from dealing with DS's shenanigans. We put him to bed over an hour early.

"I have choice!"

lol

I know right?! My own parenting thrown back in my face.

[water*drop]

DD skips naps most weekend days now. We've been trying quiet time, but her definition of quiet is very, very different from our definition of quiet. Today she yelled "I NO WANT TO SLEEP! I NOT TIRED! NO NAP NO SLEEP NO TIRED NO SLEEPY! I CAN WAKE UP NOW??" for almost two hours. The worst part of it is that it hasn't seemed to make bedtime any shorter or less frustrating.

[babyrn]

DD hasn't napped since we started sleep training in March. She's only two, this is not supposed to be happening to me!

And I am also jealous of you long nap people, DD went from two one hour naps to one one hour nap when she dropped a nap.

[doctorsbaby]

I am dying laughing reading all of these and can commiserate. DD does anything she can to avoid a nap on the rare occasion I tell her she needs one.

[gibbinator]

Our house became a happier place when we threw in the towel and stopped trying naps. I miss that 3hr afternoon break.
I agree that one nap was a magical time. Instead of 2x45min naps, the house was peaceful from 1pm-4pm for a year. Good times.

[jaybird]

Welcome to my life. DD stopped napping at home around 15 months, it doesn't even phase her anymore. Hope bedtime went better!

[aspentosh]

DD hasn't been napping much recently, so this is my life most days. Unfortunately she's still in that limbo where no nap = unhappy kid starting at 4:30/5pm so those last couple hours of the day are NOT so good.