Accomplished (so far) this weekend

• Climbing on the play equipment in the playground next to our house
• Walk to Clark Park for a swing
• Groceries
• Finished draft of paper, sent to PI
• Watched football
• Cleaned 1st floor closet
• Went through papers and created a "need to shred" pile (actually, created three of them)
• Continued the basement purge + organization
• Played with the Pickle on the floor extensively
• Skyped with au pair

Now we're just waiting for her to wake up so that we can take her jumperoo to a friend's house.  She took 4.5h of naps yesterday, followed by 11.5h last night.  She is currently pushing 4h of naps today also.

The daycare tried to convince me this week that she only needed one nap per day because she, "just doesn't seem tired."   As they said this to me, she started stroking a lovey and lay down in exhaustion on a boppy in the middle of the floor.  "Oh, that?" they said, "That USED to mean she's tired, but now she does it all the time, so we don't know what it means."

Hmmm... could it be it means she's tired all the time?

The truth is that since she's graduating to the young toddler room soon where they only take one nap, they were trying to force her onto that schedule because they thought it would be "easier" for her to transition.  This resulted in her basically not napping at all this week.

(Sorry, this is making me really angry as I type it.)

The daycare ladies and I had an altercation a conversation about this on Friday where they insisted that she didn't need a second nap, and I insisted that she did, and they basically refused to put her down on the schedule I gave them, and we ended up involving one of their bosses.  It was funny, as soon as their boss came in, they completely denied having refused to do what I said, denied that they were trying to force an 18 month old's schedule onto an 11 month old baby, and reverted back to the "she's not tired" argument (clumsily carrying her to her crib (an hour earlier than I told them she'd be ready)... meeting resistance from her because it wasn't time for a nap yet... all in a pathetic attempt to prove to me that I was wrong about her being tired).

I was VERY displeased with what happened.

Anywho.  We will have to see how things go with the transition to young toddler.  If they aren't able to accommodate 2 naps in any way, then I am not optimistic.  She's already coming home exhausted every day and sleeping 15-16 hours on Saturday and Sunday in order to catch up.