Hello all! So, my two year old has decided recently that he doesn't need a daily nap and it's driving me absolutely bonkers! Ironically, this started coming on more frequently right aroung the time I finally got my 4 month old to start sleeping for a decent stretch around the same time he's supposed to be napping. He's actually been refusing to nap about one or two times a week for a good while now, but it was only a couple times a week then, so I just overlooked it until now. Now he just lays there playing in his bed or talking to himself quietly for a good hour or so before he finally nods of to sleep. I really wouldn't even mind so much that he's trying to give up his afternoon nap (since he's getting a little older now) except that you can really tell the days he didn't nap much or at all...when I go wake him up in the afternoon after he's supposed to have been sleeping, he's seriously the crankiest little boy. And then I feel bad for waking him up after he's probably just dozed off, but I know that if I let him sleep any later than that he won't sleep well that night, so it's really quite frustrating for both of us. To be fair, ever since he was a little baby he's never really liked that dozing off sensation...he likes sleep, and when he finally nods off he'll sleep for a good three hours, it's just the getting there that seems to be the problem for him. He's never been the kind of child that has to be held until he falls asleep or rocked to sleep every night, in fact if you try to rock him to sleep it just pisses him off cause he knows exactly what you're trying to do...and he's been like that since he was a baby. This is the part that gets me- he'd much rather go to sleep by himself, but he doesn't like the feeling of going off into dreamland...I just really don't get it. The worst part is that I know he still needs that rest in the afternoon and I know that he's tired when I lay him down for a nap cause he's always rubbing his eyes and getting cranky, it's just like he gets a second wind as soon as I lay him down in his bed...it only happens in the afternoon though, when I lay him down for bed at night, he generally goes right to sleep in no time at all. I kinda feel like the bad guy, laying him down every day for a nap that I know he's probably not gonna take anyway, but I still do, on the off chance that he'll actually sleep and I'll have a happy, well rested little boy when it's time to get him out of bed.
In other news, I'm supposed to be belly dancing at a local street fair in about 6 weeks...I'm trying to get a couple of my belly dancer friends to do it with me so that it's not just me dancing by myself all day...that would be very tiring lol. I'm pretty excited about it...I haven't danced since the begining of my pregnancy with my daughter, so it's been a minute. I've even already designed my costume to wear for the day, it's very pretty, in shades of turquoise, royal blue and purple...just have to get one more type of fabric and then buckle down and actually sew it. Not sure if I'm gonna make a belt for the skirt that matches the top or just find a hip scarf that goes with it...the hip scarf would be more versitile cause I could wear it with more that just the one costume, but a matching belt would look more professional, which would be kinda nice considering I'll be dancing for tips. At least performing in the fair is free, so really any tips I do make are pure profit, especially since the fair is so close to my house I could walk there if I wanted to (I don't want to, but the point is that I could) As far as the dancing itself goes, I'm thinking one or two coreographed group dances (if I can get my friends to sign on too, hint hint lol) and the rest of them being mostly individual free-style dancing...I've found that sometimes the coolest looking dances aren't really coreographed, they just happen when you're playing around with the music.
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