Reading herself to sleep

    I'm obsessed.  I have so many pictures of big L reading herself to sleep or falling asleep with books.  It's just the cutiest thing to me.  I can't help but smile and snap a picture when I see her doing this.  The best part is when I hear her "reading" the story.  

This is the first time she fell asleep reading.  :)

And the second time <3

Here are a few taken off the baby monitor

No naps = no TV after 5

   We have a new rule in our house after last night; no TV after 5pm if big L doesn't take a nap. 

    If she watches tv past 5 on no nap days this is what happens.  

 You might think oh nice, early bed time.  Well we are not so lucky in this house.  If you move her she wakes up, is cranky, and takes a while to fall back to sleep.  If you leave her she might sleep for 30 minutes, then will wake up cranky and fight sleep.  It's a lose lose situation.  

   We will continue to encourage mid day naps by requiring an hour of rest in her bed.  But one thing I have learned is you can't force a child to sleep.  So if she holds out on the naps I will hold out on tv after 5pm.  Really we watch too much anyway.  
  *update to her being 3.5 and we now feel any nap is a good nap but nap time is still a constant battle.  

Mid day silence

    Yesterday I thought 'oh nice.  Best birthday present ever' as my children both took 2-2.5 hour naps at the same time.

    I got so much cleaning done.  I was able to switch over laundry by myself.  Most of the floors got swept and the kitchen floor got wiped down.  I was able to wash a ton of dishes.  I even got to sit and finish a show I was watching the night before.  

    Today I'm wondering what I did right because they did it again!  Prolonged birthday present? Or maybe God just knew I needed a break?

    If it happens tomorow I might faint, I'm not holding my breath though.  

Napping

    This was us at 2pm today.  Big L was fighting her nap like crazy today.  She slept in late today but she still needed her nap.  We had a huge melt down fit over taking a bath and then a few other ones about me not playing doctor with her when I needed to give little L a bath.  

    I've been sitting in her room lately and that has been enough for her to fall asleep within 30 minutes.  Today she needed more.  Today I had to put my legs over her for a bit to make her lay down.  Then once she stopped fighting it so bad I had to pat her back.   Thank goodness little L was willing to play happily on her sisters bed for the most part at least.  

    We finally had success!  She took a nice long nap!  She needed it just as much as I did.