Nathan is dropping his nap, and after the nightmare bedtime battles I think, well, so what? I am just so grateful not to be fighting him at bedtime anymore, and the days he doesn't nap I really don't have to fight him, so there you go. He seems fine in the afternoon without it and is getting a solid 12 hours at night so there's no problem.
Well, except for that loss of the hour-plus break I counted on. At least I still get it sort of- I am instituting quiet time on the couch for him (initially quiet time in bed but he was keeping James up and rearranging his mattress- yesterday I went in and he had overturned his trash can and stretched his mattress over the can and onto his bedframe and was trying to walk across it with a bridge). Today he even asked to go take his nap 10 minutes into quiet time.
It's funny, I thought him giving up the nap would be the worst thing ever, but so far (knock wood) it really isn't. Grammy was all, "And it's so nice because you don't have to plan your day around it and can just go do things!" and I said, "Well, except James still takes two naps," and she said, "No, I meant I can take Nathan out for adventures." She has been waiting for this, clearly, the chance to go take Nathan and engage in a daylong spoil-fest.
Perhaps at Christmas when we go to Disneyworld they can go off and have a Grammy/Nathan day- which Nathan is confused about, and I have been trying to explain the differences between Disneyland and Disneyworld, to which he says, "Oh, and then we go to Legoworld?"
Well, except for that loss of the hour-plus break I counted on. At least I still get it sort of- I am instituting quiet time on the couch for him (initially quiet time in bed but he was keeping James up and rearranging his mattress- yesterday I went in and he had overturned his trash can and stretched his mattress over the can and onto his bedframe and was trying to walk across it with a bridge). Today he even asked to go take his nap 10 minutes into quiet time.
It's funny, I thought him giving up the nap would be the worst thing ever, but so far (knock wood) it really isn't. Grammy was all, "And it's so nice because you don't have to plan your day around it and can just go do things!" and I said, "Well, except James still takes two naps," and she said, "No, I meant I can take Nathan out for adventures." She has been waiting for this, clearly, the chance to go take Nathan and engage in a daylong spoil-fest.
Perhaps at Christmas when we go to Disneyworld they can go off and have a Grammy/Nathan day- which Nathan is confused about, and I have been trying to explain the differences between Disneyland and Disneyworld, to which he says, "Oh, and then we go to Legoworld?"
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