December 19, 2004
Naptime
Normally, Spark takes a rather lengthy nap starting around 1 PM. This week, not so much. (Note: when Spark doesn't get an adequate nap, he is cranky for the rest of the day.) On Tuesday, I was running some errands. It was only noon so I figured I could make one more stop before having to go home for lunch. Spark then fell asleep in the car. He remained asleep during the entire errand. When we got home, he had been asleep for about half and hour. He refused to fall asleep again after we got home.
On Thursday, I took Spark to a playdate. We started driving home at 12:20. He was asleep by 12:40. He slept in the car until 1:00. He again refused to go back to sleep.
On Friday, Spark woke up 3:45 AM and refused to go back to sleep. I needed to go grocery shopping that day. Tree and I agreed that I should go fairly early in the morning in case Spark fell asleep early again. So I went to the store at 9:30. I pulled into the parking lot at 9:40, turned around to look at Spark, and HE WAS ALREADY ASLEEP! I tried to wake him up--he just opened his eyes halfway once, saw it was me, and just went right back to sleep. I almost burst into tears right in the parking lot. Instead, I just drove home and hoped that I'd be able to get him into bed without waking him up.
This time I got lucky. Spark stayed asleep and took a nice long nap.
Today, we put Spark down for a nap at 1 PM. He's been babbling in his crib now for an hour and a half, and shows no sign of letting up.
I don't know what's gone wrong with his sleep schedule, but it is seriously messed up right now.
- wink [December 19, 2004 02:37 PM]Jeremy Pierce says:
If he keeps it up, he might just move toward just sleeping longer at night. It's a tough transition, but once it happens you can sleep a lot better at night. Our kids eventually moved to 12-hour nights when they weren't taking naps every day.