Nap Time

Well there are no pictures for this blog although I wish I had a video. I thought many of you would find it humorous the experiences that we have been having with Mr. Tyler for nap time. By now it has gotten better but last week and the week before were a little rough. Well I guess you would say rough but they are also humorous to me although they probably shouldn't be as a parent.
So we have tried just laying him down and then leaving. I thought the little guy was asleep, but apparently not. I heard the door open and the little pitter patter of feet coming down the hallway. Oh now little man back in your room I said. So he walked back to his room and laid down. This "game" went on for about 15 minutes this particular time. so I finally went in there and laid him down on his bed and held him there and told him if he didn't listen he would get a spank. So he laid down. Then he got back up. I told him I wasn't playing and I would call in daddy and if daddy had to come he would get a spank from daddy. So what did my precious little boy do? He raised his butt up, spanked himself and yelled for daddy!! Yeah, he was ready for a spank and he showed Jeff he could spank himself once Jeff got back there!! I tried so hard not to laugh, but I had to turn around and look out the window and smile. The kid spanks himself!! I guess no discipline is needed--yeah right!

Then he learned not to come to the door. He has figured out that he can fake us out if he just stays quiet for a little while. So one day he stayed quite for about 15-20 minutes, I guess he was readying books or something. Then he came tip-toeing into our room and peeked to see if we were asleep and then we caught him tip-toeing out of our room. So we told him to go lay down. So he went. We assumed he laid down. But then a little while later Jeff peeked in on him and he wasn't there. He wasn't in his room. We hadn't heard him leave either. So Jeff searched the house. No Tyler. Jeff is laughing and also a little confused and starting to get a little antsy. He kept saying where is he where is he. So we searched the upstairs, no Tyler. I went back into his room and was walking toward the corner with the window, and out peeks a little head with a smirk on it from behind the rocking chair and behind the curtains. Yeah that little stinker knew the whole time what he as doing. He already knows the hiding game.

Okay last little nap time story. So the other day I put him down and I was pretty sure he had gotten up but I was so tired from not sleeping at night I didn't get up and tell him to go back to bed. It sounded to me like he was doing sommersaults off of his bed. But again I was too tired to check. So I went to sleep. Then about an hour or so later I heard him open the door. Evidently he had been playing for over an hour because I told him to lay down with daddy and he slept for 3 hours!!

And then there was the time he stayed in his room and when we went to check on him he had fallen asleep in teh chair.

That could be one way to do it........wear him out first!