Hi!

Okay, so today I am trying to start putting Paul on a nap time routine. (b/c I have been having trouble pin pointing how often and when Paul has been sleeping during the day). SO far so good. Here is what I am trying to do:

When Paul gets up during the day (meaning any time after 5am), give him his bottle and keep him up and entertain him till after his second bottle, then try laying him down for his morning nap. When he gets up from his morning nap, give him a bottle and keep him up, entertaining him till after his fourth bottle, then lay him down for his afternoon nap. When he wakes up from that, give him a bottle and keep him up till after the bed time routine when we will put him down for the night.

So far, he woke up for the day at 6:10am and it was very difficult keeping him awake till his next bottle b/c I have normally tried to put him right back to sleep in the past only b/c I didn't want to be up for the day, but I realized that I can't do that after he's slept 7, 8 or 9 hours during the night...he needs to be up. SO, we played and I read him stories etc and all that jazz. Then he started rubbing his eyes around 8:30am, so I gave him a bottle and put him down for his morning nap around 9:15am. So far so good...*crosses fingers*

I know how important it is to be consistent...and I am not worried really about the time of when his naps are etc, but I want to be consistent about how i put him down for a nap and how long in between naps he goes...ie...after every second bottle he goes for a nap kinda deal. So long as he gets a morning and afternoon nap its all good. (especially since Paul is basically sleeping thru the night now and gets a large lump of sleep during that time, he really only has to have two..to three...naps a day). I'm not turning the lights down low or anything like that b/c otherwise he will think it's night time and I don't want him to do that...I need him to know it's day time but he's having a nap so I can help him to distinguish things.

On other news, I think we are getting a sitter tonight *cheers* one of chris' co workers is coming over for a few hours. I think Chris and I are going to go to the beach and go swimming and maybe out for a coffee in the evening! I'm excited :)

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