naps are important when you have a toddler on a schedule

with the time change we've been kind of fudging nap times and bed times and wake times. it's all adding up and evening out but you know what REALLY throws a wrench into our schedule? there is one day a week where the visit schedule falls RIGHT over nap time. our typical day is lunch at 11:30, nap from noon to 3:00, but sometimes we can fudge it by an hour and go down from 1:00 to 4:00. what we can NOT do is go down at 11:30 and wake up at 12:30 otherwise we spend our whole time laying in our crib singing and kicking the side of the rails. we can also, sometimes, take a nap from 2:00 to 5:00 but that does NOT work, apparently, if you have an over stimulating morning like we did today. mental note: on tuesdays we MUST stay home in the mornings in order to get nap time to stretch out until 2:00. UGH. so today we went to the museum...it was fun. then took peanut to his visit, came home crying, attempted to eat lunch, cried all the way through it, then took a 20 minute nap where sweet pea was conked OUT. i went into her room and all i saw was her quilt wrapped up in a ball. i went to uncover where i thought her head was and for a second thought she was playing hookie and had climbed out her window. i continued to uncover and uncover and uncover until i peeled the quilt completely back to find her in a ball so far asleep i could have set off a bomb in the next room. i HATE waking her up when she's that far asleep. i took her to her visit, then came home and took a 20 minute nap of my own and then our CASA brought both kids back and i put her down for nap #2. silly me. that did NOT work. she was singing so loud peanut could hardly sleep in the next room WITH his white noise bear blaring. so i finally got her up and we did a quick craft and then made dinner for support group pot luck. i hate potluck. tonight it was a sliced apple with carmel sauce, 2 pizza hut pizza's, a veggie tray, some store bought cookies and then my homemade chicken fettucini alfredo. every time i go to the effort of making something really good to take there's nothing else to eat. frustration. anyway, then we came home and sweet pea went to bed an HOUR late. jeesh! luckily she stayed in good spirits all the way to bed. but in case anyone is wondering if we can do something on tuesday mornings, if it will take longer than 20 minutes, the answer, sadly, is no.