The kids have been slowly transitioning off their morning nap for a long time, now. I think it was around September that I started having to limit the morning nap for the sake of the afternoon. Since then, they’ve started staying awake longer, and sometimes not actually sleeping at all before I go to get them. It seems to roughly correspond with what time they get up in the morning. If it’s before 7:00, then they’ll probably sleep for at least some of that naptime. If it’s 7:30 or 7:45, then at least one of them will probably stay awake the whole time. But they really seemed to still need that morning down-time between 9:30 and 10:15, sleep or not.
[Yeah, I'm just going to toss in some random pictures from Chicago, since there are so many I have yet to share.]
Then, there was our crazy travel coming home. Stayed up way late at the airport, woke up when we landed around midnight and were up until we got home at 2AM. Slept until 9:00 that morning, and our normal routine was thrown out the window. One decent nap around 11:00, meals at weird times. Exhausted and an early bedtime at the stroke of 6.
But then, the next morning (yesterday), they didn’t get up until a mind-boggling 8:30. They were starting to wake up maybe 45 minutes before that, but would talk for a second and then be quiet for a while, so I didn’t get them until 8:30. Putting them down in the morning seemed silly, so I just kept them up until about 12:30. Slept until 3, and stayed up for a normal 6:30-7-ish bedtime. I figured it would be a fluke, still tired from traveling.
But… this morning… they did it again! Not a peep until nearly 8, and really pretty quiet until 8:30. So, I’ll give the one-nap thing a try again.
Don’t get me wrong, I already miss the morning break. Even if they didn’t sleep, it was a nice break for all three of us. Hell, it was when I could manage to get in a shower.
But if the trade-off for dropping a nap means they’ll sleep until after 8:00 in the morning? Holy crap, I’ll take it! Good deal! And yes, I know this might just be a passing phase. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll last at least a few more days…
[Find out how nearly four weeks of not counting points worked out for me over at the Ladies of Loserville...]
