Calling all Mommas!!

I need your advice. I have run into a dilemma that I need your help with! Emmersyn is quickly growing out of her infant car seat and needs to get into a convertible seat fairly soon. With that said, we have two Britax Boulevards and I was planning on giving Emmersyn Riley's seat and putting Riley in a booster. However, after a little research and thought I'm now not sure what I'm going to do. Riley would be fine in a booster according to the height recommendations, but not the weight recommendations. I didn't really want to buy another Boulevard for just a year (or so) until Riley reaches that 40 pound mark if I didn't have to, but I want to do what's safest for her. So now I am thinking about buying another Boulevard and skipping a booster all together. I know a booster would be more convenient for me (since I wouldn't have to keep strapping her in--she could do it in a booster) but I'm not interested in what's easiest or best for me.

Is there a downside of keeping Riley in an actual car seat, and not a booster, for a couple more years? Any car seat/booster advice? Are there boosters that are just as good as a convertible seat? Any help would be great!!

To Nap or Not to Nap...

That is the Question! The past few weeks have probably been the most frustrating weeks since I've had both kids. Today was probably one of the worst. Let me explain. The past about 2 weeks Riley decided that she doesn't want to nap anymore. Fine. If she doesn't need a nap, then I'm okay with that and she can just have quiet time in her room for an hour. However, this girl needs, and I mean absolutely NEEDS, a nap. I will put her down for a nap and she will stay up forever without sleeping. As long as she's in her room playing I don't care, however, usually about 10 minutes after she comes out of her room she's SO whinny and rubbing her eyes and saying she's tired. Well, what the heck? You were just in your room for at least an hour or more, you were suppose to sleep then!

I get SO frustrated with this whole refusing to nap thing. If I didn't think she needed a nap it would be a different story, but she needs it. I know this first of all because by 3 in the afternoon she's about falling over she can barely walk she's so tired, she whines NO STOP, and if we go anywhere she falls asleep in the car within seconds of the car being in motion. Plus, at night we put her down at 7:30 but she never falls asleep until at least 9 and wakes up with Lincoln around 6:30. That's only 9.5 hours of sleep and that's NOT enough for her. I have tried emptying her room of toys, literally her bed and her dresser in her room. I was so frustrated one day I chucked EVERYTHING into her closet and it still didn't work. Just when I didn't think she didn't have anything to play with she ended up getting into her dresser and playing dress up.

Honestly, I feel like she doesn't know how to calm herself down enough to fall asleep. It takes her an hour and a half even at night to fall asleep even if she hasn't had a nap. If you've been around Riley you know that she goes a million miles an hour all day long and NEVER, literally, never stops. I really think that I think she doesn't know how to take it down a notch, lay down, and close her eyes. It's like she thinks she's going to miss something by sleeping. I've tried to get her to take deep breaths and it works sometimes, but other than taking everything away I don't know what to do. Any suggestions??