The End of Naps?

Now, it very well could be just the excitement that comes with the holidays. It might not be the end of naps entirely, but who knows. We've had a good run with naps for almost 3 and a half years. That's more than many children in my daughter's playgroup! Lily has been skipping a nap here and there for a few months now. Nothing drastic and nothing to make her hours awake troublesome or frustrating. She just has a day or two every couple weeks where she just isn't tired. It's beautiful what she does though. She never even leaves her bed! I have her trained so well to stay in her bed during that time that usually I never hear from her and don't even know she hasn't napped until an hour or so has passed. She's so good...SO good. Yesterday was one of the skipped days in her schedule. Like I said, it could have been the fact that we got a Christmas tree and decorated it right before her nap. DUH. She was way too excited to sleep, I imagine. Well, for instance, I walked by her door and she's sitting there playing with her lampshade beads and I said, "Hey, sweetie. Did you get a nap today?" Her response, which seemed rehearsed, was, "Yes, I slept here, and here and here!" She then pointed to all the places on the bed she had laid. HA! Next she begins to tell me about all the things that she dreamed of. She held her hand up and counted on her fingers, " I dreamed about bunnies, lions, tigers, bears and alligators, Mommy." As I stifled my laughter I asked again, "Honey, did you really nap?" She looks at me and smiles and says, "No, I'm too excited, can we decorate the tree again??" After explaining that I cannot take all the decorations down and put them back on over and over and over again, she relented and hopped down to go sit near the tree and soak up the loveliness. She's just like me sometimes. And I just love her so much!
This might start the beginning of the end of naps, but I don't mind. She's growing up into someone that I just might like to hang out with an extra hour or two a day anyway. :)