"I'm tired. Aren't you?"

     Four loads of laundry.  Dishes washed and put away.  A trip to the mall and grocery store.  Lunch. Garbages taken out.  Mountains of spit up and two outfit changes.  Diapers stuffed.  And throw in there a mixture of nap attempts.  And still no nap for C.
     C is almost 6 months old and we have struggled with naps since day one.  We have tried this.  We have read that.  We have talked to friends and strangers.  We still have not been successful in the nap department.  Now, don't get me wrong, he has napped here and there for 1.5 hours a few times in his short life.  I get so excited.  I get my hopes up.  I hope that it continues the next day, but something happens either he naps for a real short period of time or not at all.  I think, what the heck, I did the same exact thing as yesterday so why isn't he napping today.
     I feel this pressure of getting him to nap by the time he goes in for his 6 month check up.  When we were at the doctor's office for his 4 month check up, I remember the doc saying, babies should be taking three naps a day by the time they are 6 months old.  What?!  My baby hardly takes one nap let alone three.  How am I going to get my baby to take three naps in two months time.  Well, here we are, February 16, only 14 more days left until the big 6 month check up AND still working on nap #1.
     Now, when C was a newborn, he fell asleep in the car, the stroller, and when he was worn in a baby carrier.  He would sleep in those things for hours.  Looking back I think, did I get him so use to sleeping one way that he won't nap in his crib.  Or do I miss that "magical window" of sleepy cues that by the time I am getting C ready for a nap, he is already overtired or overstimulated and can't calm himself down to fall asleep?  Or do I really have a baby that only naps for ten minutes to Target and that's enough sleep for the day (even though all the books say 10 minutes is not enough time for a nap)?  Or is it because I nurse on demand and don't have a set schedule for C? Or did I mess up his sleeping by holding him too much when he was a newborn and slept in my arms?  These questions run through my head on a daily basis.  So, now Collin is finally asleep in my arms and attached to my breast.  So, now what do I do?