The twins are at the stage where they probably still need to nap sometimes, but generally won't. And I mean this in the sense that it seems like a conscious choice on their part. I don't know exactly when this comes full circle, but there are many days when we say to them (either internally or actually out loud), "wow, I'd love to take a nap right now."
When we ask them if they are going to go "sleepy" or "night-night," their response is often a simple "no." It's not a problem to keep them in their room for a supposed quiet hour. (This is really in principle only. Since they still share a bedroom, they are often bouncing around for this faux nap period.) The problem comes toward the end of the day when they basically start to lose it because they are so tired.
This cycle manifested itself when we took a quick trip to Portland for some family holiday celebrations this weekend. By the time we left Portland for the 3-hour trip back to Seattle yesterday, the kids were wiped out. But did they sleep like KLC and I so desperately wanted to ourselves? Of course not. If not for audio books from the library, I think the last 30 minutes of the trip would have been ugly. It seems to be futile to explain that in a certain number of years, they would pay someone for the opportunity to fall asleep during a dark car ride.
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