Standoff

WOW! Two-year old's and nap time can really make you do some crazy things. We have been having a slight issue with Tyler and his naps. Really it is the fact that he just doesn't want to take them. He wants to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it. Sound familiar?
Really it did used to be under control. But for the last few months he thinks he owns the place. I don't know if it is Haleigh or what. But anyway, yesterday was a bad one. And I'm not sure but I think you could even say today was worse.
So yesterday...it was time to take a nap...fine...we went in to read the book we always read and do our regular routine. But the kid played me. Oh he tried to play me anyway. So we read our Love You Forever book. Everything was fine. Then he is supposed to lay down and go to sleep. Nope not today. I guess he wasn't in the mood or something. SO he messed around and we argued and then I figured you know what this little kid is not going to WIN! Then it became a power struggle. If he disobeyed I spanked him. And there was a lot of that. I would say you can lay down or you can get a spank. So he would choose a spank. (Is that okay?) So he chose spanks several times and that wasn't working. Okay...so Jeff came in and we had a battle yet again. He thought daddy would let him out of the bed. He did for a moment, but oh no that's not how we do it. You don't do that stuff with me. I'm not playing softie. So he screamed some more. Finally he went to sleep with his trash trucks book on his head as you can see. He wanted us to "GO" but no way sir I'm sitting right here until you go to sleep. I'm not real sure if it is that advisable (if that is a word) to let your toddler go to sleep with a book smashed on his face. But you know what? We did it and since he was breathing and sleeping we left it there.

Then for today's standoff. I guess nap time is supposed to be a game. The spank thing didn't work again and he laughed at me. I was spanking him hard too. I felt bad. But he just laughed at me. Geez I know how my mom felt now when my brother laughed in her face. I obviously didn't get spanked because I never got in trouble and I was never stubborn. (Okay maybe I was and that is why I'm suffering so with my child. Do you think stubbornness is genetic? Could he really have gotten that from me?)
Anyway so today's standoff began the same way but after over a half of an hour of that I yelled to Jeff in code language. What should I do should I go or stay? Do I dare leave him? So Jeff thought we should try a tactic he heard on the Dr. Dobson show one morning. Tell the kid good night and then basically lock them in their room. Sounds crazy I thought, but I was willing to try ANYTHING and hope it worked. So we did.
I held the door for about 40 minutes and I was getting tired of it and Haleigh needed her mother so we switched. He just kept yelling "mommy" that seems to be his favorite word ever. I tried telling him it was a cuss word and he should never say it again but that didn't work either. But anyway the standoff was quite hilarious. We turned the monitor up so we could tell if anything crazy was going on. We would spy under the door at several points when it got quiet hoping that we would see him sleeping or something. Nope, the kid is STUBBORN! Still he was yelling mommy every once in a while but in the meantime playing the drums on some diaper genie refills. He would beat on the walls, scratch the door and then at one point in time he was beating the door with what sounded like a hanger. Well come to find out it was his glasses. GREAT! Yeah we didn't figure that out until this evening when we went to find them and Jeff found them broken in half over the door knob. He too thought that it was a hanger and we couldn't find the glasses. But as he took the 'hanger' off the door knob he figured out it was his glasses. Oh I tell you what...
SO anyway back to the story. It had been an hour and forty minutes since we had started this ordeal so I though I'd go in there. I was so tired of holding the door and Jeff was so tired because he hadn't slept yet. So I went in there and told him to get in bed it was time for a nap. He got his blanket sat down in my lap and was asleep within 3 minutes!
OH MY GOSH!!

I tell you what. The stories this kid will have given us by the time he is 3 will definitely be unbelievable I wish I could write about all our adventures that we have every day. He will surely love this when he gets older.