I used to blog during naps but those are becoming more and more rare around here. Currently there are only two ways to actually make Brother go to sleep and both involve trickery. First you can set him up on the couch with a drink and a snack, a clean diaper, his blankie and a movie he has seen a thousand times. This cannot be a new movie and it cannot have any sort of real plot. (Barney works best.) Then you wait and if you’re lucky before too long he will drift off to sleep. Be careful! There is a tremendous urge to turn off the movie at this point. Don’t do it! Turn down the volume a bit if you must but complete silence will most certainly end his slumber. The downsides to this method are the considerable set up time and the constant sound of “I love you, you love me. We’re a happy family…” or something similar for at least an hour. The second method, involves getting Brother into the car for “a little drive.” This would not be that difficult except that you must also get Sister into the car which generally means pulling her away from some interesting game of make-believe and requires some finesse. It can take 5 to 30 minutes for sleep to come and when it does you have two choices: drive around aimlessly until the end of naptime or go home and risk moving a sleeping toddler inside. The first is a big waste (of gas) and the second is a BIG risk.
Of course, neither of these methods can be done before 1 o’clock or they are sure to fail. So you can see why naptime is becoming rare and why there are such great gaps between posts. 
