Motherhood ...phew!

45 minutes!! Yes thats the exact time I held the jumping, squirming, laughing, biting, playing, shouting, crying Aadit, who tried everything possible to get out of my hands!!
Boy!!! So tired !!
The thing is now that shanaya's vacation has started, the kids are playing untill late and then getting up very late in the morning. Since Aadit is getting up so late, I had to cut down on his second nap because otherwise he was sleeping past 11.30pm. However, my little is noy going well with just one nap. While feeding him around 11.15am he had slept on my lap but woke up as soon as I moved him away. Then I tried to put him to sleep for about 20 min but he didn't. I let him play for an hour , showed tv for some 15 min while I cooked for the kids. Then lunch,  again play for a while again (to release that bout of energy they get right after eating 😬) Finally after a few trips to the bedroom i.e.me taking them inside and them running around and outside 🤤
& I picked Aadit up, put his usual sleep song and started walking in the room. I had sent Shanaya outside to read aome stuff and this guy wanted to go out too behind her. I knew he was super tired, I mean imagine a 1 year old woken up at 7.30 am and no nap till 2 pm. Soooo while I was desparately trying to put my little man to sleep, the little man was desperately trying to get out of his mother's hands🤑 He tried every, yes every possible trick, like trying to bite me (lightly) , )playing with me, giving his cute smiles a dozenful of times, even tickling me but his mom was determined not to give up 😜 he jumped out of my hand like a 100 times in a span of 35 ,40 min. I was trying my best to not stop walking around the room, to put the little guy to sleep however nothing was working. He would hang on to my hands with his head down, talk , shout and express his displeasure at being held.
At the end of 45 min.,having finished two extended versions of 'snowflake' , I was at my wits end literally ready to pull my hair out 😠😠🤦 Luckily at the same time the construction work in the basement started and Aadit heard that noise. Guess someone was using hammer to break something and that sounded like somebody knocking loudly on the bedroom window (source of sound being right under that) I said " Aadit te bagh bhongyabhau aala tu zopat nahiye mhanun, dyaycha ka tula"
& Thats what did the trick!! Aadit immediately put his head on my shoulder!! & Slept within 5 min.!!!
Phew!!! Motherhood is a real struggle!!!!!