It hasn’t happened yet, but Alex figures it’ll be coming sooner rather than later.
Cole is fighting his afternoon nap. He doesn’t want it, doesn’t think he needs it (and in fairness, for parts of this afternoon, he had energy and wakefulness to spare), and isn’t going to let his parents make him have one.
Well, that last part isn’t entirely true. After one false start and some time spent back on the main floor puttering around, he eventually went down for a nap. And he was SOME GRUMPY when he woke up from it. Which implied to me that he would have been better off staying down, but Alex and I knew without question that a 4:00pm bedtime was NOT going to work. So we just let him slowly un-grumpify over the period of the next 30 mins.
It’s going to be a rough transition, though. After he wakes up in the morning, he’s only good for 1.5 or 2 hours before he’s rubbing his eyes. So when does the 1 nap happen? If he starts to slowly extend that morning gap until lunchtime, then it might happen. But if he doesn’t start ramping it up a bit, we’re goners. He can’t go from a 10:00 wake-up all the way until a 7:00pm bedtime, or even a 6:00pm bedtime. Which means that we’ll have to deal with Scrodgy McGrumblebutt for a significant chunk of his day (worse, the daycare provider and Grammy will), or we’ll have to continue with 2 naps and an increasingly later bedtime. Which is no good either.
Not sure how we’ll approach it yet. Obviously, trying to “force” him to stay awake until a lunchtime nap will help him stretch out that morning gap, but it’s not going to be pretty.
