The nap dropping stage is a difficult one I do think, though, that on days she doesn't nap, you might think about bed by 6, shorten the routine considerably and just go for getting her in to bed before she goes through exhaustion to the manic stage My little one is 31m and naps a couple of times a week (followed by bed about 9, aargh) but on non nap days he is falling over by 5pm, and goes down in seconds if I get him in to bed at 6 He would go to bed at 5, even, but there is a risk he will get woken by the rest of the herd of noisy wildebeest when they go to bed and leap up as if it was just a late nap he had