Is It Naptime Yet

Lilah was sick this weekend, and so my mom on Sunday gave us some cough medicine, because she’s just been coughing. I gave her some on Sunday night and she slept okay that night, woke up at about 6:45 am, had fun talking to daddy while he got ready for work, but then I made her sit in bed with me while Jon took his shower. She fell back asleep and didn’t wake up until 11:00. So yesterday she didn’t take a nap and we got her to bed “early”. I put in in quotes because the plan was to get her into bed by 8:30, but it didn’t happen until 9, which is just half an hour early. She woke up like normal today and now is back in bed, (it’s 12:56), but only because she didn’t eat her lunch. We had potpie and rice last night for dinner. It was a Marie Calendar’s pot pie, which is new for us, so she didn’t eat it very well. Last night she only ate half her serving because I put some away and we told her she couldn’t have any ice cream sandwich if she didn’t finish her dinner. SO today for lunch we were to eat the leftovers. She didn’t want to. So I set a timer and repeatedly told her she had to eat her rice and pot pie by the time it went off, or no lunch. I then raised the stakes and said she would have to take a nap if her lunch wasn’t eaten. I also had bread with butter and honey there for her to eat once she was done, because having something she likes, usually helps her eat. She said she would eat once the timer went off and I tried to tell her once it went off she would be going to bed if her lunch wasn’t eaten and I kept telling me to be quite because Eden was asleep. I was frustrated because she wasn’t eating. So then the timer goes off. (I had set it for ten minutes) and she gets a look and then decides she might try to take a bit of food. The look of let me redeem myself now that the time has run out. But I swiftly took her tray away and said we needed to go to bed, because when we don’t eat we have to take an early nap. I’m not sure if she needs it, but she hasn’t exited the room yet. I’m not sure if I want to use naps as a punishment for not eating, but I also figure one of the reason’s she’s not eating is because she’s tired, or doesn’t like it. I guess I just didn’t have any leverage this time. Last time we were at odds about eating lunch we had planned on taking a walk after lunch, so I was able to negotiate her to eat or we wouldn’t take our walk. (I know I’m a horrible mom for not letting my child exercise. ) She really wanted to take a walk, so she ate her lunch. Today it was just that she couldn’t eat anything until dinner. In which i hope she doesn’t get too hungry, or wake up too early before dinner, because I know she’ll be hungry.

P.S. She woke up and I was soft and gave her the bread and honey to eat.