Nap time at our house has 3 stages.
Stage 1- I like to compare this stage to stage 1 of labor, which is the longest and most painful stage.
"Lilly, it's time to take a nap"
"I don't want to take a nap"
"If you take a nap I'll give you a Popsicle when you wake up" (don't judge me)
"Ok mommy"
We go upstairs and lie down. Lilly proceeds to tell me she has to go potty, she needs another blanket, she needs to take her dress off, she needs to put her shoes in the closet, etc. She basically comes up with ANY excuse NOT to lie down. I do a lot of threatening in stage 1.
"Lilly if you don't sit down you don't get your Popsicle"
"Do I need to leave so you have to nap by yourself?"
"If you don't get still now I'm going to eat all of the Popsicles"
Don't judge me...
After a few minutes of this, Lilly finally sits down on the bed. She then proceeds to roll around, cuddle me, play with my hair, poke my forehead, rub my eyebrows, play with my eyelashes, rub my cheeks, put her finger in my ear, etc.
After she gets bored with that she moves on to her whispering. This is the part where she whispers crazy stuff. Most of the time I don't understand anything she's saying but sometimes I will catch a few phrases like:
"You're so nice mommy"
"I like candy"
"Today is Saturday"
"I'm a girl"
I have no idea what she's talking about. I close my eyes and try not to laugh. The good news is that stage 1 of nap time shenanigans is almost over.
Stage 2- This stage is when Lilly gets very still and appears to be staring off into space. She doesn't move.. she doesn't talk or whisper... she just stares at the ceiling. It is very important that I don't move during stage 2 or we can end up back at stage 1 real fast.
Stage 3- This stage is very important and can end several ways.
Scenario 1- Lilly falls asleep! Score!!!!
Scenario 2- Lilly falls asleep but I get up to soon and she wakes back up... Fail!
Scenario 3- Her daddy walks in or Madelyn cries and we are right back at stage 1.
Scenario 4- I fall asleep and wake up an hour later to Lilly eating marshmallows and playing on the iPad. I didn't even know we had marshmallows in the house.
Stage 4- Lilly either wakes up from her much needed nap or I say screw it, there is always tomorrow, and we enjoy a Popsicle on the back porch.
Don't judge me.
