No more nap time…

So the day I’ve been dreading has finally come.  Violet can climb right out of her crib now without any trouble.  She did it last night and did it again today.  What’s that mean?  It means the bed time battles have begun.

Getting a one and a half year old to lay down when she doesn’t want to is basically impossible.  The screaming and yelling she does when I put her in her crib for bed or for a nap literally eats away at my soul.  It’s that bad.  Imagine nails on a chalkboard, with the nails being her screaming and the chalkboard being the soul.  I can’t handle it!  And now she’s big enough to just climb out of her baby cage, err, I mean crib, anyway.

So I’m left with a couple options.  One is to just let her stop napping.  The other is to be a hardcore nap enforcer and put my own sanity on the line.

There is really only one option, though.  Will stopped napping before his second birthday, and it looks like Violet is set to do the same.  It makes bed time easier because she’s REALLY tired by bed time, and I don’t have to fight her twice a day.  Like the saying goes, pick your battles.  I’ll give her this one if it means I don’t have to listen to that evil banshee wail.

Folding the laundry during the middle of the day just got a LOT harder, but I guess that’s a job that can wait til after bedtime now.

It also means its probably time to pack up the crib again, this time for good, and get the toddler bed from Grandma’s house.  It’s hard to believe that just a year ago Violet was still having two naps a day, and now she’s ready to cut them out completely.

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