The collateral damage of the nap strike looks like this:
Yes, that shirt is upside-down and inside-out.
Occasionally, Muffin will pull a nap strike. When he does this, I still make him have quiet time in his crib. And by “quiet time”, unfortunately I mean “screaming-yelling-noisy-time”. Fortunately, so far, these nap strikes are minor uprisings that mercifully have not become routine. Yet.
On Friday Muffin pulled a nap strike and when his “quiet time” was over, I went up to get him and found him with his shirt on upside-down and inside out.
I’ve found worse.
Not too long ago he was playing with a large thick scab on his elbow and managed to pull it off. He was so annoyed that his “toy” was ruined that he started screaming, “Put it back on! Put it back on”! There was no hope in hell of a nap occurring after that.
I know at some point Muffin will drop the nap entirely but both he and I are not ready for that. He often still has 3 hour naps. A far cry from his first year of life when he never slept. Seriously. He’s still got a lot of making up to do. I was that mom who looked like she’d gotten two black eyes in a bar fight because the under-eye circles were so bad from lack of sleep. That’s got to earn me at least another year of napping, right?!
