Wish I Had A Video Camera Right Now

So I'm sitting in the boys' room right now waiting for them to take a nap (or at least spend a little "quiet time" resting in their cribs). The morning went relatively well. We went to church and the boys had a good time playing in the church nursery. However, when we got home the meltdown began. Their normal nap was cut short when Daniel woke up screaming about 30 minutes into it. He woke Nathan up and the two have been cranky since. The boys grew out of a second nap awhile back but because of their crankiness (and our exhaustion), we're trying the nap thing one more time.

In the span of the last 15 minutes the following has happened:

• Both boys sitting in their cribs quietly looking at books
• Both lay down and give every indication they are about to sleep
• All is good and I'm about to grab a few minutes of shut-eye myself
• For no apparent reason, Nathan stands up, walks to the end of his crib, and decides now is the best time to demonstrate his belly-flop technique on his mattress (followed by giggles)
  
• Daniel's head darts up, he giggles back, and so begins the belly-flop contest
• It gets quiet for a few minutes as each boy lays down again
  
• Nathan then tries jumping up and down while holding on to the side of the crib. His feet both get stuck when they slide through the vertical crib rails.
• Nathan starts screaming and Daniel joins in (though he doesn't really know why)
• I put my laptop down and pull Nathan out. Seeing that both limbs are still attached, I put him back on the mattress
• It gets quiet again
  
• Nathan now hangs on the crib rail and PURPOSELY sticks his two feet through the rails again and then starts screaming again. I shoot him a look like, "Not this time mister...you're on your own"
  
• Daniel decides to join in and he sticks his feet through the rails and starts screaming
• They do this for three rounds
• It's important to note that they don't cry when they are sitting down in order to get in position to stick their feet out
  
• It's like they sit, scoot forward, stick their feet out, try to make eye contact with me, and then flip the scream switch
  
• The tandem stereo screaming would put a Bose audio system to shame. I should record it and use it to coerce barricaded subjects out of a house...no human would be able to endure this for long. Better yet, I should save the recording for ten years and use it to wake these guys up when they're trying to sleep past 6am every day.
  
• Both lay down again
• Mix in a few rounds of giggles and blowing raspberries...
• ...and now it's quiet