But only 
when your child NAPS.
I’m so grateful that Oscar sleeps through the night. And I’m SO grateful that he sleeps until 8:30 or so. And it’s funny that when he wakes up the odd time at 7am, I’m all like, “Oh God no, please no, a few more minutes, please….”. And then I get happy and excited to see him so I jump out of bed to start our day together.
But one GOOD thing about Oscar waking up that early is that he actually naps during the day. And so I can get things done.
For the past few months he’s been only napping (for the most part anyways) about 1/2 hour in the morning and 45 minutes or so in the afternoon. That’s just not enough sleep for a little dude (well, apparently it IS or he’d sleep more I suppose….). Anyhoo…. the 7am days I’m finding he’s ready for another nap at 9:30 or 10am and he has a good one. I have time to have a shower (AND EVEN MAYBE SHAVE MY LEGS IN THERE!) and finish my coffee and straighten up from breakfast. Then we can do our thing and have lunch at a normal hour and then he’s ready for another nap around 1 or 2 or so. And it’s a minimum of 1.5 hours! And it’s delightful for me! I put him down at 1:15 today, it’s 3:45 now and here’s what I’ve accomplished:
Folded laundry, loaded washer, cleaned kitty litter, fed cats, cleaned living room, cleaned kitchen, prepared his dinner to take with us tonight, cleaned out inbox, updated facebook, uploaded and labelled photos, updated facebook again, cleaned up Twitter, actually tweeted for the first time in ages, listened to a brief teleseminar, moved laundry to dryer, cleaned bathroom, vegged out, folded laundry, wrote this post.
And now I’m freaked out that he’s sleeping so long that I’m going to sign off and turn on the monitor to make sure the little lad is breathing, lol!
Happy to be back.
S.
A world without naps is a sad place for this mommy. My daughter is 15 mths now and has just moved from two naps to one. My son is 3 and is doing everything he can to give up his nap entirely. I hope he sticks with it a little bit longer!
The Imp gave up his morning nap at 10 months. After two weeks of unsuccessfully trying to get him to nap in the mornings, I accepted reality. (Actually, I cried, then I accepted the facts.) But he still has a good long nap in the afternoon – usually about 2 hours. Have you thought about transitioning O from two naps to one longer one in the afternoon?
I’ve been watching him to see if it’s time to drop the a.m. nap, but he’s still so tired. Sigh. I might try holding off though, in the near future, to see how long he can actually go before totally telling me it’s time for a nap! ie: pulling at my leg wanting to go to sleep, or looking at me with those big beautiful eyes and out of the blue SCREAMING at me. That usually is a sign….