Naptime Adventures with Grandma

So earlier this week, I went up to my room to feed Anna after the boys were 'in bed.' I heard some noise, so I took a break to go investigate and when I flung open the boys' bedroom door, I hit grandma (sorry Grandma), who was lying on the floor of the boys' room 'helping' them go to sleep. Feeling the situation was under control I went back to feeding Anna.


When Anna and I were done, we came downstairs to find out Grandma was still in the boys room! After about an hour and a half (from when she went upstairs) she came down. We thought she had taken a nap too - here's what really happened (in Grandma's own words):

I thought that if I closed my eyes, the boys would follow suit. I closed them tight and ignored their calls to me so that they would think I was truly asleep. After several attempts at trying to get a response out of me, Samuel declared to Hyrum that I was dead! Hyrum got out of bed, stood right over me and repeated "Dead??" after him. I erupted with laughter, so that ploy was over - it was sooo cute!

Next, I tried bargaining with them, saying that I would hold their favorite "lovies" until they woke up if they didn't settle down. Samuel decided he would settle down and keep his lovie, but when I told Hyrum he lost his favorite lovie (Lion), he replied: "here!" and freely gave it up. I put lion beside me and laid back down. Next thing i knew, Hyrum gave me his bear. Then he asked me if I wanted his horsey too! So much for bargaining! I think Hyrum won that round, hands down.

I was running out of ideas. Samuel had fallen asleep, but Hyrum was still fighting it. He kept saying it was time to get up, and I kept telling him that he needed to lie down and close his eyes. Finally he laid down and closed his eyes. I thought that he had given up, but not Hyrum! He was down for about 2 seconds, sat back up and said "I'm done!" "Time to get up!" Obviously he had complied with all the terms I had laid out for him.

I decided not to nap with them the next day . . . .