Naps…

Sunday Little Bug skipped the AM nap because of church and then took a 2 hour afternoon nap.

Monday Little Bug took the AM & PM nap which both were about 1 to 1.5 hours long.

Tuesday Little Bug never fell asleep for the AM nap and then took an almost 2 hour afternoon nap.

Wednesday she went back to the two short naps of about an hour or so each.

Then, Thursday I had decided to not lay her down for the morning nap because of the pattern I had seen develop over the past week. However, Little Bug was acting very tired, so I ended up laying her down and she slept an hour. (Actually, I woke her up after an hour, which is what normally happens if she takes a morning nap.)

Thursday afternoon she lay in her bed for a hour and a half and never went to sleep!

Friday, I went to the school I used to teach at to visit the coworkers I hadn’t seen in 2 years. I got home around 11:15ish. Little Bug was being a cranky pants, so I laid her down for a nap. She went right to sleep and I woke her up after 30 minutes. I laid her down again for the afternoon nap at 3:15 and she went right on to sleep.

Saturday I let Little Bug sleep as long as she wanted for the morning nap because we were having friends over for lunch and I figured she wouldn’t lay down for her afternoon nap until late. She slept for about an hour and 15 minutes. After our friends left, I laid Little Bug down around 4 and she was still sleep at 5:30 when I went in to wake her up!

Today’s Sunday so Little Bug skipped the morning nap and is sleeping now.

So, there is a definite pattern developing here…

Seems Little Bug is alternating days and taking 1 nap one day and then two naps the next day.

I guess I could push her to just drop a nap, but I don’t want to deal with a Miss Cranky Pants every morning until naptime!

But this is progress towards being able to finally drop the morning nap!

Independent Play…

…is going GREAT!!! We are now up to 15 minutes!

When I tell her it is time to play in her room she walks towards her room!

It’s amazing really. At the beginning I had my doubts that we would ever go beyond the stage of standing at the gate and crying “Mama” for 5 minutes.

Amazingly enough that stage only lasted less than a week!

Once Little Bug learned that 1) It’s FUN to play in my room! and 2) Mama comes back when the timer goes off, she’s been a happy little camper during IP.

I’m proud of my girl! :)

- Elaine