Nap Time

Ever since we moved to New Haven and put Joey in a twin bed nap time has always been a curious topic. Bed time is just fine. He may whine and cry at times, but that's no different than before. But nap time. I just have no idea what to expect when nap time rolls around. Typically I put the boys down around 1pm. This used to mean that they went to sleep at 1pm. Rarely does that ever happen anymore. Now that Joey can climb out of bed, they often don't actually fall asleep until 2 or later (in today's case, 3:30). The coin toss is whether he'll be upset or content about being locked in his room. Half the time, he whines "I want to wake up!" and consistently tries to break out of the room. The other half, he's happy to just play and run around the room until he gets tired. Poor Moses, no matter what his mood, he's stuck being awake until Joey decides that he's had enough.

There are two perks to this arrangement:
1) I get SOOO much more time to myself (read: my nap time) because I get the pre-nap time PLUS the nap time afterwards. That's like 4 hours, sometimes more!
2) It's REALLY funny to peak in their room once they've finally conked out and see what kinds of mischief Joey has been up to. Here's a list of some of the silliest things I've seen:

•  diapers (clean, don't worry) scattered across the floor so that not an inch of carpet could be seen
• hampers emptied and dirty clothes scattered like the diapers
• clothing drawers emptied as above
• any combination of the above 3
• 5 packs of baby wipes (the ones from costco-HUGE) in Moses' crib (?)
• the sheets taken off both Joey AND Moses' beds and properly placed in the hamper (boys sleeping on plain mattresses)
• one day a whole shelf from a bookshelf was missing

Today I was sure that they weren't going to ever fall asleep because I kept hearing noises through the wall up until 3:30. I was in and out of sleep during that period but once silence finally came, I feared that the silence came from trouble rather than sleep and was startled out of bed only to find them sound asleep on sheetless mattresses. Silly boys.