Proof my oldest son still needs a nap...
...he just fell asleep sitting up on the couch. At 6pm. Should be a fun night! I don't have the heart to wake him.
Showing posts with label naps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naps. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 04, 2008
Still alive!
Although with all the pictures & snippets of fun my husband is sending me via his free wifi at the bar on the beach...I'm not sure HE will make it out of this alive ;)
Liam has been adjusting his nap schedule, it seems, or I think it seems. For about a week he was only sleeping about an hour to hour and a half when he normally was very strict about his noon-3pm nap and I didn't really worry about it since Nana & Grandpa were here & heaven knows you cannot sleep through that kind of potential excitement BUT when those naps continued after they left, I started to worry a little more. Especially combined with his new tendency to go down later, take longer to go down & still only sleep for the shorter duration, then I really started to Worry. Extra especially on Saturday when he didn't go down until just about 2pm & at that point, I had to wake him up at 3:30pm to make sure we didn't have a midnight goodnight time! Sunday I put him down later (around 1pm) and he was up at 3ish so that wasn't too, too bad. But then today he is down NOW (12:09) and I'm not placing any bets on when he will wake up...
He has also been more difficult to get down at night, part of that equation is Matias though. He spends way too much time up there with him, and Liam has his number. I don't mess around with staying up there for a long period of time - in fact, when track number 5 hits on that CD, it's time for me to make my exit & let him whine/soothe it out. Sometimes Matias can be up there for an hour & I just think that's too much! It is almost at the point where I think I need to start putting him to bed because it's also pushing his bedtime back between 9-10pm which is no good. Matias is more of a sucker for the "wait until he's asleep" trick whereas I'm just a big ol' meanie and put him down awake. And yes, this is a little past the "proper age" when we should be doing this BUT no Judgy McJudgertons, right? We all do what WE have to do to make it work for US, right? RIGHT!
On the subject of Still Alive though, I realized last night after all was said & done that we had had a good day together. Nothing unusual just not the "clock watching" of days when Dada isn't on an island at a beach bar listening to a Beatles cover band...
And today I have declared it to be "Boys Will Be Boys" day - he gets to do anything he wants (within reason - knifes are out) and I will gladly do it with him withoutbitching nagging hovering stalking picking up his Hurricane Path of Destruction right away OR with nary a bad thought in my head about it all. So far, it's working out for us!
He helped water the plants & I allowed him to throughly soak me with the hose with a smile on my face. We played basketball downstairs & finished the laundry and ran around like a Loco Fellow all he wanted. We played in the GaGe (garage for those not fluent in Fellow-->English), we talked to the fish (he even had the pleasure of petting his orange Molly), he fed the fish, the cats & himself all the syrup he wanted (only Liam had the syrup not the cats or the fish). Generally a Very Good Day Indeed. And you know what? I LOVED it. It's so fun to just let loose and sayscrew it I've got time later to pick up this mess every once in a while. By looking at my house, you'd probably think I say that more often than not ;)
Also, he's been wanting Alone Time - today it involved just chilling in his crib. During that Alone Time, I put my laundry away (yes, the stuff you folded two weeks ago, Nana) & cleaned the toilet (TMI?). And when I would go to check on him he would shoo me out and insist that I close the door behind me.
We had one little incident yesterday that involved feeding the cats then UNfeeding the cats that left a total mess of dry food all over the carpeted stairs. We had a Little Talk about it & helping Mama with the messes & hey, why not just not make the mess in the first place, kthanks? And we talked about picking up our toys after we're done tossing them aside (is my kid the only one who prefers to toss his toys as opposed to playing with them properly??) and running amok. And OK when I say "we talked", I really mean I might have raised my voice a little. Really, only a little - after the whole Dinner at a Friend's Debacle, I've really stopped myself from Yelling because man did that hurt my heart afterwards. So some Stern Talking happened and then the goofiest thing occurred...
...Liam dumped every single toy we had just put away & then picked them all up and put them away. After I sat in a stunned silence he turned to me and said "Mama!" and pointed at what he had just accomplished. We high-fived each other, hugged & I thanked him for helping Mama keep all his toys in place. Maybe my Stern Talking had some effect? Or do you think it was the "everything going in the garbage" portion of our Talk that sunk in? ;)
Liam has been adjusting his nap schedule, it seems, or I think it seems. For about a week he was only sleeping about an hour to hour and a half when he normally was very strict about his noon-3pm nap and I didn't really worry about it since Nana & Grandpa were here & heaven knows you cannot sleep through that kind of potential excitement BUT when those naps continued after they left, I started to worry a little more. Especially combined with his new tendency to go down later, take longer to go down & still only sleep for the shorter duration, then I really started to Worry. Extra especially on Saturday when he didn't go down until just about 2pm & at that point, I had to wake him up at 3:30pm to make sure we didn't have a midnight goodnight time! Sunday I put him down later (around 1pm) and he was up at 3ish so that wasn't too, too bad. But then today he is down NOW (12:09) and I'm not placing any bets on when he will wake up...
He has also been more difficult to get down at night, part of that equation is Matias though. He spends way too much time up there with him, and Liam has his number. I don't mess around with staying up there for a long period of time - in fact, when track number 5 hits on that CD, it's time for me to make my exit & let him whine/soothe it out. Sometimes Matias can be up there for an hour & I just think that's too much! It is almost at the point where I think I need to start putting him to bed because it's also pushing his bedtime back between 9-10pm which is no good. Matias is more of a sucker for the "wait until he's asleep" trick whereas I'm just a big ol' meanie and put him down awake. And yes, this is a little past the "proper age" when we should be doing this BUT no Judgy McJudgertons, right? We all do what WE have to do to make it work for US, right? RIGHT!
On the subject of Still Alive though, I realized last night after all was said & done that we had had a good day together. Nothing unusual just not the "clock watching" of days when Dada isn't on an island at a beach bar listening to a Beatles cover band...
And today I have declared it to be "Boys Will Be Boys" day - he gets to do anything he wants (within reason - knifes are out) and I will gladly do it with him without
He helped water the plants & I allowed him to throughly soak me with the hose with a smile on my face. We played basketball downstairs & finished the laundry and ran around like a Loco Fellow all he wanted. We played in the GaGe (garage for those not fluent in Fellow-->English), we talked to the fish (he even had the pleasure of petting his orange Molly), he fed the fish, the cats & himself all the syrup he wanted (only Liam had the syrup not the cats or the fish). Generally a Very Good Day Indeed. And you know what? I LOVED it. It's so fun to just let loose and say
Also, he's been wanting Alone Time - today it involved just chilling in his crib. During that Alone Time, I put my laundry away (yes, the stuff you folded two weeks ago, Nana) & cleaned the toilet (TMI?). And when I would go to check on him he would shoo me out and insist that I close the door behind me.
We had one little incident yesterday that involved feeding the cats then UNfeeding the cats that left a total mess of dry food all over the carpeted stairs. We had a Little Talk about it & helping Mama with the messes & hey, why not just not make the mess in the first place, kthanks? And we talked about picking up our toys after we're done tossing them aside (is my kid the only one who prefers to toss his toys as opposed to playing with them properly??) and running amok. And OK when I say "we talked", I really mean I might have raised my voice a little. Really, only a little - after the whole Dinner at a Friend's Debacle, I've really stopped myself from Yelling because man did that hurt my heart afterwards. So some Stern Talking happened and then the goofiest thing occurred...
...Liam dumped every single toy we had just put away & then picked them all up and put them away. After I sat in a stunned silence he turned to me and said "Mama!" and pointed at what he had just accomplished. We high-fived each other, hugged & I thanked him for helping Mama keep all his toys in place. Maybe my Stern Talking had some effect? Or do you think it was the "everything going in the garbage" portion of our Talk that sunk in? ;)
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Seriously.
The kid wakes up this happy/excited every single time from a nap. I don't know how he does it cause if you know either one of his parents, you would know that he doesn't get it from us.
But you know, I think I could wake up that happy if I slept like this...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
New Game & more sleep talk
I have a new game I play with Liam in the evening that I like to call "Mommy can scream louder than you!"
He LOVES it. He squeals and tries to hit all these new pitches that he is discovering and then I scream louder than him and he goes crazy. It's the simple things, really, that keep our kid happy, isnt it?
Matias could not really get over this little interaction we had going on because it's normally played as we wait for him to get home - that horrible, almost melt-down , bored you Mommy, where the devil is Daddy time - and nothing else keeps him occupied. So we have a ton of pictures & possibly even video of it all because he is that funny.
Last night was one of the roughest for our little Fellow. To preface this though I must add that Mommy & Daddy went to bed late after watching a movie (The Devil wears Prada) and then some episodes of SATC (season 5) that we have recently 'acquired'. And by late, I mean 2am. I was up with him from 3am-5am and then Matias was up with him from 5am-6:30. I didnt realize he had gotten up & was even missing out of the bed until we discussed his poor sleeping this morning. We just moved his nursing chair into his room & that saved both of us last night as we rocked him (and probably snoozed a little ourselves) in his room without bringing him into ours and possibly waking the other up. But the little guy was so uncomfortable. He had been up prior to the early AM times too - at like 10pm he woke up and nursed for a LONG time - this was after having 4 oz. of carrots and cereal after his last nursing that evening. I could not believe he was hungry again, but hungry again he was. He slept until about 8:30am so we probably have a combined total of 5 hours sleep MAYBE for him & more like 3 hours sleep for each Mommy & Daddy. Matias asked me what was wrong this morning cause my eyes were all red, he thought I had been crying - exhaustion, sweetie.
We are going to Target today to get his NEW car seat & some Motrin. I'm not a believer in medicating your kid to make them sleep/behave but I do hope that it brings some relief to him & allows him to rest. We plan on going after his nap & I'm interested to see how long he is out for today. Yesterday he didnt take 2 hour + naps but I had someone over to Crop so I'm thinking we might have messed with his sleep since we are located right under his room...
It will be nice to be able to talk about something other than naps & sleep schedules though! And it would also be nice for Liam to realize that you cannot really successfully fall asleep sitting up.
He LOVES it. He squeals and tries to hit all these new pitches that he is discovering and then I scream louder than him and he goes crazy. It's the simple things, really, that keep our kid happy, isnt it?
Matias could not really get over this little interaction we had going on because it's normally played as we wait for him to get home - that horrible, almost melt-down , bored you Mommy, where the devil is Daddy time - and nothing else keeps him occupied. So we have a ton of pictures & possibly even video of it all because he is that funny.
Last night was one of the roughest for our little Fellow. To preface this though I must add that Mommy & Daddy went to bed late after watching a movie (The Devil wears Prada) and then some episodes of SATC (season 5) that we have recently 'acquired'. And by late, I mean 2am. I was up with him from 3am-5am and then Matias was up with him from 5am-6:30. I didnt realize he had gotten up & was even missing out of the bed until we discussed his poor sleeping this morning. We just moved his nursing chair into his room & that saved both of us last night as we rocked him (and probably snoozed a little ourselves) in his room without bringing him into ours and possibly waking the other up. But the little guy was so uncomfortable. He had been up prior to the early AM times too - at like 10pm he woke up and nursed for a LONG time - this was after having 4 oz. of carrots and cereal after his last nursing that evening. I could not believe he was hungry again, but hungry again he was. He slept until about 8:30am so we probably have a combined total of 5 hours sleep MAYBE for him & more like 3 hours sleep for each Mommy & Daddy. Matias asked me what was wrong this morning cause my eyes were all red, he thought I had been crying - exhaustion, sweetie.
We are going to Target today to get his NEW car seat & some Motrin. I'm not a believer in medicating your kid to make them sleep/behave but I do hope that it brings some relief to him & allows him to rest. We plan on going after his nap & I'm interested to see how long he is out for today. Yesterday he didnt take 2 hour + naps but I had someone over to Crop so I'm thinking we might have messed with his sleep since we are located right under his room...
It will be nice to be able to talk about something other than naps & sleep schedules though! And it would also be nice for Liam to realize that you cannot really successfully fall asleep sitting up.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Nap time!
Well, he's definitely transitioning to the 2 two hour naps each day but when those naps happen is a big old spin of the Who the Hell Knows Wheel. And it doesnt really depend on when he wakes up - like today he slept until almost 8:30 but then went down for his nap at 10:30 - whereas other days he's been getting up earlier and still lasting until 10:30ish or even one day when he didnt go down until after 11!
Still feeling this one out, it seems...
Still feeling this one out, it seems...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
What's in YOUR freezer?
(that always reminds me of the Capital One commercial, What's in YOUR wallet?)
This is what's in my freezer right now for Liam's Menus:
Carrots - his favorite
Butternut Squash
Sweet Potato
Apples
Pears - I now mix these rather thin puree into his morning cereal
Peaches
Plums - we havent tried these yet, they are just 'in my freezer'
Green, seedless, Grapes cut into 1/4 pieces for his foray into "finger foods"
Cooking right now - nectarines!
To be cooked tomorrow - green beans!
And in other news - I believe we are transitioning to a new sleep schedule! One that involves TWO two hour naps a day. For the past three days he has slept from 11-1 and then again from 2ish-5ish depending...we are still figuring out the afternoon nap. These longer naps are HEAVEN! I actually get a LOT of stuff done - as you can see I get his food stuff made, I get work done for CM & I might even start getting some more cropping done! YAY! He wakes up such a renewed little Fellow from these long naps too - what a difference! He's never woken up unhappy before, you can just see what this longer nap does for him. It's fantastic!
This is what's in my freezer right now for Liam's Menus:
Carrots - his favorite
Butternut Squash
Sweet Potato
Apples
Pears - I now mix these rather thin puree into his morning cereal
Peaches
Plums - we havent tried these yet, they are just 'in my freezer'
Green, seedless, Grapes cut into 1/4 pieces for his foray into "finger foods"
Cooking right now - nectarines!
To be cooked tomorrow - green beans!
And in other news - I believe we are transitioning to a new sleep schedule! One that involves TWO two hour naps a day. For the past three days he has slept from 11-1 and then again from 2ish-5ish depending...we are still figuring out the afternoon nap. These longer naps are HEAVEN! I actually get a LOT of stuff done - as you can see I get his food stuff made, I get work done for CM & I might even start getting some more cropping done! YAY! He wakes up such a renewed little Fellow from these long naps too - what a difference! He's never woken up unhappy before, you can just see what this longer nap does for him. It's fantastic!
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