Now that we’ve officially dropped the morning nap (today is day one and we will see how it goes over the next 3-5 days) the big question is, “So now what are we gonna do with all this time in the morning??”

I let Little Bug sleep as late as she wanted today, which was 8:10. I usually get her up at 8. By 9ish we were outside in the backyard with a bucket of water and outside toys wearing only diaper and crocs (Little Bug was the one in the diaper and crocs, by the way! :) ). That provided entertainment for about an hour. Then I put her in the bath to rinse off the dirt. And now she is doing Independent Playtime (with the timer set to 28 minutes!).

We are almost to our goal of 30 minutes, but I think I will extend this goal to 45 minutes, since we have now dropped the morning nap.

If we could reach 60 minutes, that would be really nice. :) It would help break up the morning and still give me time in the morning to get household stuff taken care of. But 30-45 minutes would accomplish that too, so we will just see how things unfold.

Little Bug’s schedule with 2 naps looked like this:

8am wake + milk + breakfast

10:30-11:30 nap

11:30 milk

12 lunch

3:00-4:30 nap

4:30 milk

6ish dinner

7:45ish bath + milk

8:30 bedtime

What time should naptime be now that we have dropped the morning nap??

Would love to hear your thoughts/opinion. Thank you to those of you who have already left comments with what you did with your child(ren) during the 2to1 nap transition!

- Elaine