Naps aren't for sissys!

Dear Lilia,

I'm afraid that I may have said something that you overheard and took to heart. Usually, when your mom asks me if I'm tired and if I want to take a nap I say something along the lines of "Naps are for sissys!". Now I'm afraid that you heard me say it sometime and decided it was a life lesson for babies as well.

I'm sorry if you haven't figured it out, but you can get REALLY grouchy if you don't take naps when you're supposed to. Unfortunately, you don't seem to really care, because over the course of the last month or two you haven't done so well at going down for naps. Don't get me wrong, you have been improving over the last week, but it still needs a lot of work.

What I'm trying to say, is (GASP!) that what I say/do isn't ALWAYS applicable to everyone. I'll let you know in the cases that it doesn't apply to you so that you don't get confused. Maybe at this point it's a good time to bust out with what your Grandpa Shaw likes to jokingly say: "Do what I say, not what I do".

In short, please take naps. You're a lot happier when you do, and when you're happy, Mommy's happy, and when Mommy's happy, everyone's happy. There, a little life lesson for you in how to make Mom happy. Nap.

Love,
Daddy