The joys of parenthood

If you have kids, you know how this goes... We're still trying to get Ellie back into a nap routine. At this age, she still needs an afternoon nap. Lately, Ellie doesn't agree but the facts are that she does. On Thursday, I got her all snuggled in at about 1:15. I recounted the tale of Goldilocks and then the Three Little Pigs. And then I told her it was nap time. Five minutes later, I heard her door open. I got her back in bed and told her that she needed to take a nap. Her music was playing and I mentioned that she needed to lay down, close her eyes and stay in bed until the music stopped. Another five minutes went by and I hear her door open. Ellie meets me at the top of the stairs and tells me "My music all done." Her CD is 65+ minutes long. It's been about 25 minutes since we started this dance. As I walked back in her room, I notice that her CD player is UNPLUGGED. Yeah Ellie, the music is all done. She didn't get a nap that day.

Campbell is going to walk before she ever really crawls. She does this weird "Ranger" crawl where she scoots on her elbows/forearms and knees around the house. I have yet to see her ramble around on her hands and knees. But just on her elbows, she's pretty darn fast. When she wants to get somewhere, she is gonna get there NOW!!!

Today, we went down to the Ft. Steilacoom Park. This playground has a "tot" area next to the regular one. Ellie likes the swings on the tot one but the roaming space on the other. The main playground looks like a castle. We climbed around on the different playgrounds for about 45 minutes before we got rained on. There was a McDonald's with a covered playground just up the road so we headed there for a weather break. We went back to the house for naps and Ellie kept trying to convince me that it was no longer raining even though it was. Within 10 minutes of laying down, Ellie was conked out. And later when we ran an errand in a downpour, Ellie was insistent that there was no rain and that we need to return to the castle playground.