Tuesday, January 27, 2009

To Nap or Not To Nap

We have been having a tough time figuring out what would be best for Jackson these days. Jackson has been going to bed at 7pm since birth - that is until maybe six months ago. It slowly moved to 8 or 8:30 but even at that, he would go to bed and be out in no time. These days, maybe the last two months, he is in bed for a good hour or so before he falls asleep. So the question is, do we continue giving him an afternoon nap. This kid gets SO cranky by the middle of the day and I can't stand his afternoon behavior when he doesn't have a nap. But now that I am not in dire need of a nap anymore, I thought maybe I would help him get out of the habit of naps. Well after the second day with no nap, this is what we found at 6pm. We were looking for places to live and he was watching a show - Andrew went out there to check on him and couldn't believe his eyes.Needless to say, I am going to try a nap today. We will see...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is exactly the same problem I'm having with Andrew! It’s funny, I just took pictures of him falling asleep in front of the TV after not taking a nap a couple of days ago. I don’t understand why they refuse to take naps. I wished someone asked me to take naps everyday. :) Maybe they are getting too old for naps, what to do???

RachelAA said...

So we did it today, we had a nap and it was a good one. He woke up at about 2:30, so not that late, and he was in a much better mood. BUT HE'S STILL AWAKE RIGHT NOW. He has been in bed for over an hour and he's still awake. Ahhhh