My DD is exactly the same. She's been dropping a midday sleep about every 2nd/3rd day for a couple of months now. I find it's got worse with the heat so I ensure she goes to bed with little clothing on and make sure her rooms nice and cool with air con in the house and fan on. On the hotter days she'll only sleep 40min-1hr and on a cool day she'll sleep 2hrs. I've also found by dropping her nap time back half to 1hr has helped but I really just wing it on the day and see how active she's been in the morning etc. Also, another thing that has worked sometimes for me is after the quiet time (reading books etc) with her, I lie down next to the bed with my head on the bed and close my eyes with her and that seems to make her stop and do the same as me and not get up out of bed and muck around. When I've done that, I've never had to do it for more than 3-4min at a time, because she's fallen asleep that quick!!
If she just won't have a sleep no matter what I try, I just re-enforce that she has to stay in her bedroom and read books or play with her doll because it's 'quiet time' and that she doesn't have to have a sleep if she wants to but she has to have 'quiet time' in her bedroom for a while. This seems to work and she is happy to stay in her room for at least an hour to hour half with the door shut.
Although I never feel quite as calm inside as I do when she's actually asleep, I still get a solid hour to myself to at least have lunch and do a couple of things if I need to.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you know what works for me. I guess it would be a little harder to do having two kids.
All kids are different - at my DDs kindy, there are kids younger than her that don't sleep at all but there are kids in the pre-school room that still have a midday nap - lucky for some!
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