No Naps

Every night Hubby and I read Kat several books before bed, then sing some songs. We always sing Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star with the hand motions. Kat has been able to do the twinkle twinkle part with her hands for quite some time now, but last night she started doing the rest of the motions too. She did up above the sky by putting her hands up, and she did "like a diamond" by making a little diamond with her monkey paws. Smart kid!

She also does "Itsy bitsy spider" and "pat a cake".

She has also decided, as of about 24 hours ago, that she isn't going to be a good girl at bedtime now. We keep going through this phase. She'll go down like a little trooper for weeks and then all of a sudden she cries and cries at bedtime. It's very frustrating. She has cried for an hour at both of her naps today. (we go in every 15 minutes to reassure her that we're here, but it's night night time). We don't know what the problem is. Last night I went in and rocked her and talked to her for a few minutes and then put her down, and she did go to sleep, but woke up a couple of times in the night. She could be teething, but we gave her Tylenol and that didn't seem to make any difference. Maybe a power struggle? But you think she would have learned by now that we enforce nap time. We'll figure it out. Right now she's a happy, tired monkey who didn't get much rest today. Hopefully bedtime won't be a nightmare for us all....