Although I don't think we've said our final good-bye's to the daily nap, I do think that our little Lemon doesn't need the 13 hours of sleep she's been getting lately when she does nap from 12:30pm to 2:30pm (or 1-3pm, or 1:30-3:30pm).
Bedtime has been a bit of a struggle lately. I'll put her down and then hear her cute little footsteps about five minutes later and a small voice saying "Mummmmmmmy?" from the top of the stairs. Looking back now, she likely wasn't tired enough to go to sleep, since she was having a full two hour long nap most days, and was not ready to end her fun-filled day!
So what have we changed? Well, instead of nap time we're trying to enforce "quiet time" which translates to a short period of time in her room with books/stuffed buddies she can play with, although this past weekend we traded that in for a Disney princess movie marathon while snuggling on the sofa (she's only going to want to do that for a limited time and Daddy and I want to take advantage of it while we still can). We've also moved bedtime up to 8pm instead of 8:30pm in an effort to gain back a little bit of the time lost by cutting out the nap. That means that she's getting about 11.5 to 12 hours total in one 24-hour period vs. the 13-14 hours she was getting.
Fingers crossed that these changes are for the best for all of us! I'll keep you updated!
Just for fun, here is our little Lemon tonight. She put this hat on and said "I'm Chef Emmerson!". Love her and her imagination.
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