When my middle child was a baby, my eldest would sit and colour with me, do puzzles, play with figures, read stories ect while baby napped. Now number three is here and DC2 is like a whole different entity to her sister and getting baby to nap without disruption is proving incredibly difficult.
I try to time it so baby falls asleep on the way back from the school run and he usually gets an hour then. After that it's 20 mins at a time at best because his sister will leap, scream (happily), bang around, decide to kiss him. I think he'd sleep better out of my arms so she couldn't disrupt him as much but besides t.v., I don't know what to do with her while I'm trying to get him to nap and I don't particularly want the t.v. on every few hours when he needs a nap.
He won't tolerate the sling in the house but will happily sleep in it outside. The problem is that the weather obviously isn't ideal for that right now; particularly as toddler really feels the cold and so doesn't last long outside. Today all he had was an hour this morning, two twenty mins naps then 45 mins after school. He was absolutely shattered by bedtime which will no doubt mean he's unsettled tonight.
If you have a similar age gap, how do you get your baby to nap indoors?