Give it up child!

Addie is becoming more and more creative. She keeps coming up with excuses not to take a nap. I get her, her nap blanket, and her piggy and we sit down in the rocker in her room and the excuses start.

Addie: "Mom, hungyy...num!"
Me: "No, you're not hungry, you just ate lunch, go to sleep."
Addie: "Mom... mommy! Want diiink (drink)"
Me: "No, you just had some water."
Addie: "Mom! Pretty buwd (bird)"
{So I give her the bird she is referring to"}
Addie: "Where dad??"
Me: "Dad's at work Addie, I'll wake you up when he gets home..."
Addie: "Mom! Book!!!"
Me: "No, we'll read when you wake up."
Addie: "Where Bobby?"
Me: starting to get frustrated "He's at home. Addie seriously, GO to Sleep!"

Then she pauses... I foolishly think she might settle down and go to sleep until my thoughts are rudely interrupted...

Addie: "Mom! I potty!"
Me: "You need to go potty?"
Addie: "...no..."
Me: "Did you go potty?"
Addie: "...no..."
Me: "Ok, then go to sleep."
Addie: "Nooooo mommmmmm, no night night!"

Finally after a few tears she settled down and went to sleep when she realized none of her excuses were working.

Potty training is going... not fantastically as I'd hope, but she has been self-initiating more. I've noticed if I let her run around bare bottomed she tries to get to her potty when she has to go. She's made it a few times and then almost makes it sometimes. It was kind of funny today because she ran into the living room where her potty was (I'd been trying to fold laundry) and she grabs her potty and runs back to her bedroom where she was watching cartoons and tried to sit down before she went potty, but didn't quite make it... crazy child!