Enter Sandman
Someone replaced Emmie with another child while I was on vacation last week. Oh she looks the same and laughs the same and throws food on the floor the same. But she sure doesn't sleep the same.
Last week while we were in Tahoe, she started taking two two-hour naps each day, while still sleeping almost 12 hours overnight. And she's still doing it. I have no idea what precipitated this or why she is continuing this practice. In fact, I would have thought she would be going in the other direction with naps because she is drooling like a faucet and constantly trying to disengage her tongue from her mouth. I don't see any tooth bumps yet, but they must be coming soon considering the evidence and the fact she still has no teeth. Not a single one at a year old! It's like I am raising a geriatric with no dentures here.
These naps are delightful except for the fact that I can't do anything anymore. Leaving the house is almost impossible because she sleeps from 10-12, they both eat lunch at 12:30, Jack sleeps from 1:30ish to 3:30ish and she sleeps from 2:45ish to 4:45ish. As you can see from that schedule, it leaves me 45 minutes to myself during the entire day. That "me time" is when I squeeze in my shower, clean the house, check my e-mail, eat my lunch and volunteer with the underprivileged. Oh hell, who am I kidding? I am online all the time when they're awake and I didn't even shower today. But I do need more of a break during the day or I get a little shrill by dinnertime. (This time Josh would be the one saying "Who are you kidding" as he thinks I am a little shrill all the time.)
This is also new behavior for a child of mine. Jack never slept more than an hour at a time when he was taking two naps, and it was more like 45 minutes. Even switching him to one nap didn't result in routine two-hour breaks until he was well over 18 months old. Who knew -- children in the same family can be different! Someone alert the pediatric medical journals.
If I could only get these two on the same nap schedule, I would have two glorious hours to myself each afternoon. Oh wait, I mean I would be so bummed to miss out on that time with my darling, perfect children. I am sure I will look back on this time, oh say sometime next week, and wistfully remember the good old days before Emmie stopped napping completely.
Last week while we were in Tahoe, she started taking two two-hour naps each day, while still sleeping almost 12 hours overnight. And she's still doing it. I have no idea what precipitated this or why she is continuing this practice. In fact, I would have thought she would be going in the other direction with naps because she is drooling like a faucet and constantly trying to disengage her tongue from her mouth. I don't see any tooth bumps yet, but they must be coming soon considering the evidence and the fact she still has no teeth. Not a single one at a year old! It's like I am raising a geriatric with no dentures here.
These naps are delightful except for the fact that I can't do anything anymore. Leaving the house is almost impossible because she sleeps from 10-12, they both eat lunch at 12:30, Jack sleeps from 1:30ish to 3:30ish and she sleeps from 2:45ish to 4:45ish. As you can see from that schedule, it leaves me 45 minutes to myself during the entire day. That "me time" is when I squeeze in my shower, clean the house, check my e-mail, eat my lunch and volunteer with the underprivileged. Oh hell, who am I kidding? I am online all the time when they're awake and I didn't even shower today. But I do need more of a break during the day or I get a little shrill by dinnertime. (This time Josh would be the one saying "Who are you kidding" as he thinks I am a little shrill all the time.)
This is also new behavior for a child of mine. Jack never slept more than an hour at a time when he was taking two naps, and it was more like 45 minutes. Even switching him to one nap didn't result in routine two-hour breaks until he was well over 18 months old. Who knew -- children in the same family can be different! Someone alert the pediatric medical journals.
If I could only get these two on the same nap schedule, I would have two glorious hours to myself each afternoon. Oh wait, I mean I would be so bummed to miss out on that time with my darling, perfect children. I am sure I will look back on this time, oh say sometime next week, and wistfully remember the good old days before Emmie stopped napping completely.
posted by Amy at
10:06 PM
3 Comments:
Jordyn is 2 1/2 and refuses to nap lately. I'll leave her in her room for up to 2 hours and all I hear is her little feet running back and forth, or her singing, or playing with her phone. By 4-5pm, I'm dealing with the devil.
I found your blog on google and it made me laugh out loud! I'm Amy S. as well and even though I don't have any kids yet, I can still relate to not having much time to myself during the day, since I work full time and occasionally feel like a babysitter even though I'm really a dental assistant.
Emmie must be going through a little growth spurt. Both my kids did that and they are 18 months apart. I used to get my neighbor to come over and watch one of them while they were sleeping so that I could get out of the house and get some things done. Unfortunately, I had no luck aligning their sleeping schedules! I wish you tons of luck!
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