Bye Bye PM Nap, I'll Miss You!

Well, after a long a beautiful relationship with both my sons am and pm naps, it is time to say goodbye to the pm nap. Although the am nap is still around and allows me to shower and possibly maybe a few other things (depending on it's length), that has also become a challenge. I feel like I've been dumped by the pm nap. Life was so good when I had the pm nap. I miss it. I fantasize about how great life would be if the pm nap came back to me, if only for a little while. I'll take what I can get. I don't know where I went wrong. perhaps it was pushing the limits with timing a few days that my husband was off of work for his surgery. Maybe it is only teething and it will be back soon. Whatever the case may be, it is gone. I hope to see it again, but if I don't I know I will have my memories about how beautiful it was. You see, the pm nap was a way for me to connect to MY life. A break for me no matter how many hours my husband worked. If he had court, or a side job, etc. it was there for me. It was especially nice because it usually meant me, awake, alone, and nobody else time. My son is so tired but no matter what I/we try he just will not take it. Last night I had to pick up my mom and take her to the mechanic to pick up her car . . . . . with the baby. It turned into a screaming fit that would not stop. A jaunt into a grocery store on the way to let him walk around and to pick up some teething biscuits. Then back in the car for some more screaming followed by him passing out, at only 6:45 pm. This has got to stop. What can I do. I could start to drive around when it's time for the second nap. Maybe I should try to lay down with him? I really don't want to get in that habit. After all, he is a year old and has been able to lay down by himself for close to 9 months. When kids lose a nap is this the way it happens? He has always been a big napper. He napped between each feed for months and each time he would lose a nap he would be awake and quite happy. This just seems off this time. He is waking at all hours to nurse which he stopped doing at 3 months but started up again at 11 months due to a horrible cold and top front teeth coming in. Since that it has kept up. It this a bad habit that's developing or is he still teething cause the top 4 front teeth are still coming in (broke through, but not all the way through)? Whatever the case may be I am exhausted, he is exhausted, and when my husband is home, he too is exhausted. Some say that it's because he is walking and is fighting it cause he is too excited. Others say it could be that plus separation anxiety. Maybe it will be back soon. We lost the second nap around November for a bit when his bottom teeth were coming in. It came back to me then. I am heartbroken and my life has not been the same. PM nap, come back to me, we need you desperately. Our lives haven't been the same since. Cry, yawn, thumb suck, scream, fuss, OY!