Things Toddlers Do To Avoid Sleep

Kassidy has been trying her hardest to keep herself awake instead of napping. Her first attempt is to take whatever ponytails, clips, braids, etc are in her hair out. Then, if she is still sleepy, she will lay there and count from 1-10 at the top of her lungs, over and over again. If counting fails, she will start on her ABC's, again at the top of her voice, and again, over and over (don't tell, her, but I secretly love listening to her do this...for a little while). If she gets tired of these things, she resorts to kicking the wall through her crib rails. Usually this results in Mom or Dad coming into her room (ah a victory, she thinks). Mom or Dad will rub her back and calm her down (we think), then leave the room. Then, as soon as she thinks we're far enough away, quickly as she can, she jumps up onto her feet, grabs her crib rail, and starts jumping up and down yelling "JUMP, JUMP, JUMP." And, finally, she will resort to undressing and re-dressing herself. This can be pretty frustrating to Mom and Dad, but, what can you do? So, the other day she went through this whole process. Finally I decided to just get her out of bed. This is what she looked like the rest of the day until Daddy got home and took pity on her and fixed her shirt.