Thursday, July 12, 2012

Sleeping Beauty

We've been trying to re-figure the whole nap thing out.

Sofia takes one a day, but it needs to be a fairly long one, and if she wakes up early it needs to be an early nap (too early for Hannah).

Hannah doesn't need to take a nap every day, but some days she does
If I put her down when sofia goes down, then she takes a long nap and doesn't go to bed at night.   Or else she wakes Sofia up when she wakes up.
If I don't put her down at all, she gets crabby about 6 pm and make life miserable for all else.
If I put her down partway through Sofia's nap, that sometimes wakes up Sofia and results in a crabby baby and a crabby toddler = crabby mommy!


Our solution has been:  put Sofia down for a nap when she needs it and spend some 1-on-1 time with Hannah for a half hour or so, then let Hannah sleep on the couch while I get a few minutes of child-free time. It's not fool proof, but it is working for us.


1 comments:

Afton LeSueur said...

Is this today? If so, I'm glad the zoo tired her out enough for her to nap! Thanks again for taking us with you!