Any Ideas?

We're home from church today because Amy had a fever last night, and then I wondered this morning if Noel had one too. As of right now, both girls seem to be fine. But still. We couldn't go to church that soon after the fever. So instead, now is the time designated for family flop. Meaning Noel, Amy and I are all supposed to be sleeping. I loved the idea. The girls are not cooperating. Which brings me to the point of this post.

Does anyone have any good ideas for how to keep Amy from waking Noel up when they are both supposed to be sleeping?

She's done this quite a few times recently. Noel goes down before Amy a lot of the time. And when Amy goes into their room to go to sleep, it doesn't take long before they're talking and giggling away. I don't mind that so much. It's the fact that Noel doesn't go back to sleep - and usually Amy doesn't get to sleep as long as I leave Noel in there. So it ruins nap time for Noel a lot of the time.

Now, my preferred solution would be to have the girls in separate rooms, at least at this age. But this is not possible right now because we only have 2 rooms in our condo. I have put Noel down in my closet to sleep a few times so that Amy won't be able to wake her up. One of the times I woke her up accidently. I don't love having babies sleep in my room, but sometimes this is better than having them in the same room.

So today when I heard them going, I poked my head in and got Amy's attention but not Noel's and quietly told her in a stern voice to lie down and go to sleep. Yeah, like that worked. I don't have great consequence ideas for Amy waking Noel up because

a) we usually put Amy in time out, but I don't even want to go all the way into their room to get her to take her to time out. I would get Noel's attention, and her nap would be officially shot. And the momentum towards a nap of Amy being in her bed would be interrupted. Bad idea.

b) If I put Amy in time out for it after her nap that won't even mean anything to her by that point.

c) the damage is already done. Noel's awake. That's what I most wanted to avoid.

So other than keeping Noel in my closet for naptime, does anyone have any other ideas that would work to keep Amy from waking Noel up? As much as I'd like to say that we'll just move into a bigger place, that's not an immediate enough solution. (Although I am looking forward to that when it happens.)