Farewell, morning nap

I think the time has come for Nadia to transition to one afternoon nap a day. She took two long naps on Tuesday, but I think that was the last time that will happen. Wednesday through Friday she took morning naps (60-90 minutes long) but no afternoon naps unless you count falling asleep in the carseat for 15 minutes as a nap. Yesterday she played in her crib in the afternoon for about 55 minutes, and just when I was about to go get her, she fell asleep and slept for about 35 minutes. This morning she played in her crib for an hour during the time that was her morning nap. It is nice that she'll play happily in her crib these days. I used that to my advantage when she woke up at 5:50am this morning. I didn't go get her right away. I am not happy with reverting back to the earlier wakeup time (3rd day in a row that has happened). Hopefully the transition to one afternoon nap a day will help her get back to sleeping in until 7am. The next few days I think it will be a challenge in the late morning to keep her up, but I am going to try to keep her up until at least noon. Today it wasn't hard since we were at church, and there was a picnic after church. The weather was gorgeous! We are back to short sleeve weather, and it's very pleasant out. I tried to keep her awake during our 12 minute drive home from church, but she fell asleep 2 minutes before we got home. She didn't even wake up when I got her out of the carseat or carried her to her crib (at 1pm). Hopefully she'll take a nice long nap since it will be her only nap today. In light of giving up the morning nap, I am going to join a Sunday School class that is starting next Sunday. I signed up for one and was given the materials for the quarter today. I also am going to try going to MOPS once a month this fall at my "old" church, which is 30 minutes away from our new home.

Thankfully I feel much better today. Yesterday evening I started to feel better. Maybe it was the nachos at Applebee's that did the trick, LOL. We didn't get Paul a computer at Staples. He wants to shop elsewhere. This weekend I've been doing some organizing. I've been sorting through the boxes of Nadia's old clothes and taking out the items that are gender neutral. Thankfully both sleep blankets will work for our son as one was yellow and the other was blue. Of course most of her clothes were very feminine, but thankfully not every single item was. I felt sad packing up some of her little dresses - I was wishing she could wear them again or another daughter of mine could wear them; then I remembered all the new dresses waiting for her to wear in the future that I've already purchased and that made me feel better. Plus I am certain I'll dress my son up in cute little suits from time to time. I am going to bid on some fall dresses for Nadia on eBay. My organizing has mostly centered on Nadia's closet and our son's closet. I am moving the baby stuff out of hers (gym and such) and moving my stuff out of his and into Paul's office closet (scrapbooks, wrapping paper, and such). I also went through the toybox and removed the toys for infants that Nadia doesn't play with any more. I put them in his closet and will get them out when he's ready for toys. I'd call this urge to organize nesting, but it seems on the early side for that, eh?

P.S. These photos were not posed. Nadia loves to pick out a book and then read it in her blue rocking chair albeit many times the book is upside down. :-)