Have you ever had a nap boycott on your hands? We'd been dealing with one on and off for months this past winter and finally I thought it was behind us. The bean was back to taking 2 hour daily naps with no problem. And then it started up again last week, what the F? Not only is she back to singing and jumping in her crib, but she's now taking off her diaper and peeing all over the place (thus adding to the already hideous amounts of laundry)!!! Maybe it's the heat? Maybe it's the bright sun beaming into her room? Or maybe she's just playing a cruel, cruel joke on her poor, tired, pregnant mama who really needs a nap too? Help!Well, needless to say, I 'm feeling pretty depleted and completely uncreative lately. So this afternoon, after ignoring her little concert upstairs for about an hour (I just needed to sit on the couch and take a lil' breather) I was looking at a looong afternoon ahead of us. How was I going to make it through the three and a half hours until dear daddy came home? Then I remembered a little miracle I stumbled upon this winter. We headed to the grocery store and when we got there I handed her a basket and told her we needed to get some stuff for dinner. Seriously, it was as if I had handed her an ice cream cone- she was beyond psyched! She pushed that little red basket all around the store with a huge grin (our store has those groovy shopping baskets with wheels), taking various bottles and boxes off the shelves and asking, "need this?" It was too much and we killed almost an hour!
This proved to be a wonderful opportunity for A to role play, her fave activity these days. It's amazing how she can easily spend an hour wrapped up in her imagination these days- cooking, cleaning, talking on the phone as well as soothing, changing and feeding her baby. Our trip to the grocery store was just another opportunity for her to practice being mommy. And I was loving the AC!
Next time you're all out of tricks, give this a try with your mini and let me know how it goes.
3 comments:
Oh, I so hear you on the woes of not-napping (tho I'm regular-exhausted, not pregnant-exhausted). Harry hasn't taken one--not counting accidental car naps--in months and it's KILLING me. Love your shopping idea, but sadly we don't have those nifty carts here in Brooklyn. Taking jr to the supermarket usually involves bribery ("here, eat these Teddy Grahams, and if you're good I'll let you get a trinket from the machines on the way out").
We have a nap boycott going on around here too. I don't mind the not napping-she will play well quietly for a long time-but the late afternoon meltdowns from not napping are a killer. She couldn't make it through music lessons yesterday. Love the carts at your store :)
Debbie, if you don't have those groovy baskets on wheels, maybe your kiddo could use his stroller as a basket? Even those toy strollers would probably work.
Glad I'm not alone mamas, thanks for commiserating!
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