Rise and shine

The Crap Naps of a few weeks ago have made some repeat appearances as of late. But now, not only is Jack trying to thwart naps by not taking them, he also sets an alarm to wake himself up, lest he actually fall asleep.

Jack has had a small alarm clock in his room (an old-school one with a face, none of that digital crap) since he was born. I used it to keep track of the length of his nursing sessions when he was a wee baby and then it just became a part of his room decor and it's still there in his big boy room today.

Thanks to our nightly ritual of reading "Good Night Moon," he knows what a clock is and always points to the one in his own room. His father thought it was OK to let him take the clock down and play with it, so now he thinks it's a toy and he loves turning the face light on and off.

One day last week I put him down for his nap and he actually went to sleep without any fanfare. He was calm and peaceful and for 30 minutes all was quiet on the upstairs front.

Shortly thereafter, I asked Josh what the hell that beeping noise was. We could hear a weird beep and it sounded like it was coming from the living room. Which is weird because there's nothing IN the living room that beeps.

Josh put his head next to the monitor and realized it was coming from the monitor and then said, "Uh yeah. It's coming from Jack's room."

Suddenly, the beeping turned to buzzing. A loud annoying buzzing. And then the buzzing was accompanied by crying. A loud annoying crying. I sped up the steps and the buzzing got louder as I got to Jack's room. Sure as shit, he had somehow set the alarm, so I shut it off. But he was wide awake, sitting up in his crib.

We deduced that when he was playing with the clock that morning, he turned the switch for the alarm to "on" and lucky us, it just happened to be set for 2:15 p.m., the middle of naptime.

Apparently he has so much playing to accomplish that he now needs to set an alarm so he gets up in time to finish it all before bedtime.