Glowhorse to the rescue

A few days ago Addison decided she did not want to nap anymore. She however did not say it in such a nice way. I went to put her down for her morning nap, like always, right around 10am. Now that she is standing/pulling up on things her first order of business was to pull up on her crib and bounce up and down. This is normal. What follows was not. She started whining, and then whimpering, and then full on tears rolling down, screaming like a madman was trying to rip her from her crib. Had I not had a video monitor I would have busted in her room ready to karate chop whomever way trying to take her. Turns out there was no madman, just a madbaby. When I went into her room she reached up to me with both arms and the saddest expression ever. I tried to just sit down and rock her and calm her down in her room but just being in her room set her off. So thus began our battle over nap time.

This continued on for a few days of screaming when I set her down and she would eventually fall asleep only to wake up 30 minutes later. She was tired (and subsequently crankypants), I was frustrated and the multiple books I scoured offered nothing. She has never had anything in her crib besides herself, a zip up blanket that she wears to stay warm and her paci.

So I had to take matters into my own hands. If you remember Addison use to be terrified of any stuffed animal that made noise or talked. She has had a glowhorse since before she was born but never showed much of an interest in it. So it was hanging out in her toy box. I decided to get it out and see if maybe she might like it, and maybe it could keep her company in her crib.

It worked! I was beyond surprised. She loved glowhorse (now loving referred to as Napinator) and she just rolls over and hugs him until he stops playing music and then she falls asleep. She s doesn't even attempt to stand up in her crib, nor does she even cry at all when we are putting her down for her naps or bed.


Now the only issue is how to get her to stop crying when we have to leave Napinator in the crb until the next nap.

Also on another note I didn't want to do a whole other post so I am including this super cute photo of Addison with her adorable dimples for Shutter Love's Dimples challenge.