Oh-oh!

The Dao used to say Oh-oh only for dire problems...

But now it serves to point out anything out of the ordinary that he thinks needs attention:

- a mitten has fallen out of the cupboard onto the floor
- a teddybear is out of his crib
- a tiny spot of milk has splashed on the table
- the dog barked in the front yard (forbidden)
- there is a dog poopy lying in the snow somewhere along the sidewalk
- there is a piece of onion peel on the floor
- there is a sock hidden behind furniture
- the credits are rolling on his signing time video
- there is some dirty snow in the park (fell off the parks vehicle driving through)

What mama thinks is oh-oh is that he won't go to sleep at his regular nap time: he used to fall asleep within five or ten minutes if I put him down sometime between 12:30 noon and 1:30 pm. And sleep til about 3pm. At which time we could have a snack (or go for coffee in the coffeeshop), play games, do fingerpainting, play in the bath etc before dogwalkies at 5pm.

But now he jumps up and down and yells and babbles and throws everything out of his bed, and goes ohoh and ow! ow! (for no discernible reason except mama comes running) until 2:55. And then just when i think we can get on with our day, he is dead to the world. And will sleep straight through til 5pm when we must go dogwalkies. No time for waking up (he is snuggly grumporama when he wakes from his nap: won't even be put on the floor, on the potty, or at the table to snack for 10-15 mins). No time for a snack. No time for playing. Just straight out of bed into the snowsuit. oooh lalalala. Grumporama baby out in the park.

So... any brilliant ideas of what to do?

He gets up about 8:15-8:30 am. Now that hasn't changed at all. Some have suggested I put him to bed earlier.

Hahaha.

He now gets put to bed sometime between 8 and 9pm. And he goes to sleep about..... 10-10:30 pm. Just how many times can I tell him to go to sleep as he shouts out, jumps on his mattress, sings, throws toys around? So... vodka? a blunt object over the head? just let him stay up til he drops off in a corner? (a couple times he missed his nap cuz we were out, ie chinese new year in a resto en gang, but he didn't go to sleep any earlier at night, just slept til 9am the next morning)....

I just want to have our afternoons back to have fun.

oh-oh.

Comments

[Bacchus]

I'm so jealous. 8:30! I'd love to sleep in that late. Little Man goes down about 12:30 to 1 every day. Somedays he sleeps an hour and somedays it is 3 hours! Oh Blessed 3 hours. LOL

I'd like to take credit for his good sleeping habits but the foster mother who had him the first 4 months trained him to sleep through the nite. We've just kept up the strict routine.

[MIJK]

My kids both stopped napping when they were 2 years 3 months.. Just saying..