Yesterday, Stella was the best. Really. Everything was pretty much fantastic. Only one teensy tiny tantrum.
Our friends had stayed with us the night before and Stella got to play with Silver. They both had on their Christmas pj's and sat together watching cartoons for a while.
Monday: 20 minutes
Tuesday: 40 minutes
Wednesday: 1 hour
Thursday: somewhere around 2 1/2 hours; however the majority of that was on my chest while we slept in a La Z Boy.
Friday: no nap. As in zip, nada, nothing.
Saturday: 10 minutes (in the car)
After Saturday, I pleaded to a group of moms on Facebook and asked for them to send the nap fairies my way. And it totally worked!
I cannot explain how truly excited I was so see Stella's eyes close at 2:10 and not hear a single peep out of her until 4:10. She slept in her froggy sleeping bf on the floor the entire time.
I got so much done. Now I was still in my pj's because I'd decided it was going to be one of those days, but here's all I accomplished during naptime: straightened up a bit after company left, washed dishes, made an apple cranberry crisp (with leftover cranberry sauce-excellent & totally doing it again), made artichoke dip for Monday night's Garden Club meeting, made a few homemade gifts, gave myself a facial while doing said stuff above (Biore pore strips, Burt Bees rosemary mint clay mask, coconut oil & baking soda scrub, followed with coconut oil & Frankenscence essential oil). I felt so renewed and accomplished.
Stella woke up in a good mood. We cuddled for a few minutes and shared some crackers and artichoke dip and I helped myself to a serving of the crisp. Mmmmm....so delicious and really crispy.
It was really pretty out and a little chilly, but I decided I really wanted to go for a walk. I'd remembered how energized I felt after the Lights of Life 5K the night before.)
We grabbed Bandit and the stroller and took off for the neighborhood across the street. We walked for about an hour. We saw Christmas decorations and kids playing. She rode some, walked while holding my hand (the best), hopped on my back for a piggy-back ride and tried several times to play with a group of older screaming kids with Nerf guns.
She didn't really eat dinner, so afterwards we played in her room for a while. She gave us kisses, both on the floor and through the rungs on the crib-her new favorite thing to do (also the best because she smooshes her lips and face up against it which is hilarious).
Stella even rubbed me and Donald's back while we laid on the floor. Then she laid down and joined us.
I'd set out a stick of butter and an egg so it would come to room temperature so we could make Christmas cookies as a family, but Donald wasn't home. I'm really excited about doing that with her because she's such a big helper and I think we will all really enjoy it.
Stella is at such a fun age right now. Thing is, she's been pretty difficult also.
Yesterday turned out to be kind of a fluke thing, but I'll totally take what I can get. It was just a great day-really, the best.
