Good morning. I think S is ready to almost drop her nap
She is often times only napping for 45 min instead of 2 hrs and many times I am not sure she ever falls asleep. However this weekend she took 2 hr naps and the next morning was awake at 5am. Can't you wait until your brother is out of the newborn phase? Whaaa.
Other than the store not sure what is on the plan today. We have a ton of candy to pass out tonight but our house is a pain so we will have to sit outside to pass out candy.
aggiebug noooooo this is not the time for her to drop her nap! how long does she typically sleep at night?
i got to work before starbucks opened this morning, so i decided to explore the tunnels (underground maze that has a billion restaurants and shops - it's so hot in houston that they have to give us a way to get places without going outside and sweating). i'd heard there's a dunkin donuts down there. not only did i find it, but i got a 30+ minute walk carrying heavy bags as a bonus. now i'm in an awesome mood (seriously, i never get early morning exercise anymore). those 30 minutes would have been well spent studying, but whatever!
agm04 I grew up there and have never been in those tunnels. I don't think I realized they even existed until college.
As far as sleep goes DD sleeps from about 8:30-7 most nights. That is actual asleep time she goes to bed around 7:30 -7:45. The weirdest part about it is it's not impacting when she falls asleep but when she wakes up? That's not how I feel like it should work. Thankfully she is generally content with quiet time (after a few minutes protest) so I can put her in her crib with a few books and she is content for a while. Not the same but still a little sanity saver for me.
aggiebug i had never gone down there until today, just because i haven't needed to, but WOW there's a ton of stuff down there! of course i got lost, which is why i was down there so long, but it was worth it.
at least she will give you some quiet time. i'm crossing my fingers for you that it's a phase and not her new normal. i'm sure you've tried this, but maybe a longer stretch of awake time before you put her down would help? it seems like 8:30-7 with no nap is so little sleep for how busy they are these days! but of course they're all different and they do what they do. and as far as the falling asleep vs. waking up time - baby sleep has always seemed counter intuitive to me. i know the whole sleep begets sleep thing, but it's so strange that a late bed time means an early wake up. like who made those rules?!
agm04 she usually is down for her nap around 12:30-1 and up around 3 (or earlier these days) so I can't imagine putting her down much earlier with lunch. And she is the one that pushed falling asleep later. We put her down earlier but she still falls asleep at 8:30 sometimes even 9.
aggiebug oh sorry i meant longer awake time before her nap. but i guess if she's waking up earlier then that's hard. troubleshooting sleep is difficult. i'm sorry you're dealing with it!
Post by dmorgendorffer on Oct 31, 2016 8:23:37 GMT -5
Happy Halloween!
aggiebug the thought of no more naps is truly terrifying. DD had a shorter than normal nap yesterday and then had ridiculous mood swings all afternoon.
At my OB appt last week the dr gave me Diclegis. I am so sleepy today, but not nauseous. We have a halloween party at work this afternoon but I think I am going to skip out early so I can get home for trick or treating, we still wont make it in time for the halloween parade in our town but I think I'm going to take E trick or treating to a couple of the neighbors. If I can manage to stay awake that long.
Post by lilyelayne on Oct 31, 2016 14:08:09 GMT -5
aggiebug my grandmother-in-law has been scolding SIL because her 4 year old still takes a nap. The 3 year old naps at the same time. SIL is like I will hold on to naptime as long as he'll sleep. He often doesn't nap during naptime at pre-K and is a holy terror after school and asleep by 645 so... hopefully S either resumes napping or continues crib quiet time.
agm04 never heard of those tunnels! I'll have to ask DH. He used to live in Houston.
Post by lilyelayne on Oct 31, 2016 14:09:50 GMT -5
Happy Halloween! Downtown is having trick or treat from 4-530 so if G is up from his nap and feeling good, we may do that. DH's aunt & uncle are doing a neighborhood hayride for their grandkids, so we may do that afterward as well, depending on how G is doing. He's got a terribly stuffy nose but is cheerful.
aggiebug N dropped her nap early on. It was sad but we she just wouldn't do it anymore and didn't get cranky at night or anything so....shrugs...can't force it. It would have been nice to have them both nap but I'm sure that wouldn't have worked out how I wanted anyway.
Happy Halloween. I am going to start getting the girls dressed when H gets home (early) today. My mom and dad are going to man the house when we are out trick or treating. I am making the traditional Halloween meal in my family: Sloppy Joe, tater tots, and hot apple cider with cinnamon sticks.
So child just woke up from a 3hr nap today. Umm? I just don't know. We shall see what happens tonight and tomorrow!
And baby brother now has an eviction notice! Induction scheduled for November 16th. Wee. Still hoping for sooner, but it's nice to have an end date and a plan.
Poof Happy Halloween! She's got a fever so we are skipping trick or treating but we got a couple pictures of her in the costume. She didn't want to take it off!
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