Urgh this summer just feels like one long attempt to both change and stick to a routine.
Edward has been very adaptable to changing sleep patterns. Namely, when we go out and he misses a morning nap! This has happened a few times when he's not quite fallen asleep in the car or buggy for example, and we can't spend the whole morning trying to get him to nap, so we just start to get on with it. He's very good at then ploughing through and tends to do a two-hr nap in the afternoon (apart from the day when the power was cut during the afternoon nap and he then woke after only 45 mins).
Fortunately Edward has moved on from waking at 5.30am which is what he was doing at the start of the summer. But we are close to the start of term now and we still don't have a regular morning schedule as he varies between a 6am wake up and a 7am one. He's done a 7am wake up a few times this week as he's woken for a feed around 5am but then managed to resettle (once even after a bit of chatter!). This would be an ideal wake-up during term time if he can manage it, but I bet he won't! He has also cut down to just one wake in the night (any time from 2am to 4am), but again after two nights in a row of this great routine he had a bad night (I blame teeth!).
Leila is right on the cusp of not needing an afternoon nap now. We do put her down for it, but need to make sure she's down by 1.30pm at the latest and down't nap for much more than an hour. Any later, or longer, and she won't go down at night - resulting in one of us spending 30min upstairs waiting to put her back into bed when she invariable gets up.
She's good in the mornings though and it's really sweet to have her get up by herself and wander into our room or wander downstairs (if that's where I am playing with E) in her PJs for a cuddle.
What will happen when terms starts? Well I'm already trying to take over the final bedtime routine part for Leila from Scott so that it frees him up to get some work done. We'd also like to move this a little earlier (at the moment I start E bath at 6.45/7pm, then E asleep 7.30 and L at 8pm), but we'll have to see how that goes as having dinner at 6pm works well.
Edward has been very adaptable to changing sleep patterns. Namely, when we go out and he misses a morning nap! This has happened a few times when he's not quite fallen asleep in the car or buggy for example, and we can't spend the whole morning trying to get him to nap, so we just start to get on with it. He's very good at then ploughing through and tends to do a two-hr nap in the afternoon (apart from the day when the power was cut during the afternoon nap and he then woke after only 45 mins).
Fortunately Edward has moved on from waking at 5.30am which is what he was doing at the start of the summer. But we are close to the start of term now and we still don't have a regular morning schedule as he varies between a 6am wake up and a 7am one. He's done a 7am wake up a few times this week as he's woken for a feed around 5am but then managed to resettle (once even after a bit of chatter!). This would be an ideal wake-up during term time if he can manage it, but I bet he won't! He has also cut down to just one wake in the night (any time from 2am to 4am), but again after two nights in a row of this great routine he had a bad night (I blame teeth!).
Leila is right on the cusp of not needing an afternoon nap now. We do put her down for it, but need to make sure she's down by 1.30pm at the latest and down't nap for much more than an hour. Any later, or longer, and she won't go down at night - resulting in one of us spending 30min upstairs waiting to put her back into bed when she invariable gets up.
She's good in the mornings though and it's really sweet to have her get up by herself and wander into our room or wander downstairs (if that's where I am playing with E) in her PJs for a cuddle.
What will happen when terms starts? Well I'm already trying to take over the final bedtime routine part for Leila from Scott so that it frees him up to get some work done. We'd also like to move this a little earlier (at the moment I start E bath at 6.45/7pm, then E asleep 7.30 and L at 8pm), but we'll have to see how that goes as having dinner at 6pm works well.
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