It has been a tough few weeks for miss Aine. She no longer naps (unless she is home with Dad, not sure why that is) but she needs to nap. Since she isn't napping, as soon as 5PM rolls around she is crabby...non stop tears and pouting and disobeying. It makes for a long 2 1/2 hours of staraight drama before she goes to bed. Last night she was so cranky that at the dinner table she refused to eat anything until she got some more crescent rolls. Well, crescent rolls are like gold at our house - everyone loves them and wants the extra one. She already had one and we told her she couldn't have more until she ate her actual food. Aine wasn't going to have any of this and after sharing with us what she thought about that through grunts and wails, we removed her from the table. I put her on the couch and told her that this is not how you behave at the table and she was done eating. She cried and hollered a bit and then it got quiet. Completely quiet... see - she fell asleep. It was 5:30, in the midst of defiance, she crashed.
Unbelievable. The rest of us at the table
all just kind of looked at each other, chuckled, and enjoyed a quiet meal together...
In honor of her crabbiness, we had her wear the perfect shirt that my mom, dad, and younger brother Brian picked up for
Aine at the Mall of America. We think it is hilarious because it is so fitting to her personality right now. She thinks it is hilarious because we say, "Aine are you a little crabby?" and she laughs
and replies, "I am not a little crabby, I am a little girl!" Ahhh bless her heart.
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I can understand your frustration with the crankiness when Aine doesn't nap. Kieran is starting to refuse naps nowadays and he is coming 2 next week. He also really cranky by dinner time on no nap days. Terrible 2s I think. But, now that his little brother has arrived, he seems happier to sleep in the afternoons when the baby sleeps! Weird huh? ! :)
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