Oh how I have loved having you for the last few years. Please don't leave me! You have come to be one of my best friends! Oh sweet NAPS, won't you stay? Maybe just for a little while...
All moms love that hour or two that they get when their baby or toddler is in dream land! It's time to recover from the morning activities and prepare yourself for the night time festivities. It's a little retreat from mommyhood every day. It doesn't always last long, but it is a constant part of the day.
Lately these naps don't always come. Baby Bear has decided that maybe she is too old to continue taking them. Before she came down with her cold around Easter she had stopped napping COMPLETELY. It was an adjustment... but something we got used to, and even started to enjoy. Then she got sick and she started napping again because she needed those naps to recover. After a week or so of recovery we were ALL used to her napping again and we loved that alone time, even if it was just for an hour or two.
Now she has been better for a while, and she has started fighting those beloved naps again. I still try to make her because night time is much happier when she does take them. Plus she is happier because she gets to stay up just a little later.
I have heard this is a common age to stop napping, and I think that I am ACTUALLY okay with it. Then we have rough days and I am so thankful for that little break. I realize that this is normal and we will eventually lose the naps all together. During the summer, when we can play outside all day long, I will love losing them. But right now i am hoping they stay until the warm weather comes.
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