On the move

I took a few videos this morning, and I uploaded the shortest one. Over the course of the day, the speed of his crawling rapidly increased. Before I could leave him on the floor with some toys while his siblings did puzzles on the floor in the same room. Now he leaves his toys and makes a beeline for their puzzle pieces. There are definitely advantages to having a child wait a bit longer than usual to start crawling. He has learned how to climb up the one step to get from the family room to the kitchen, and he is spending a lot more time standing on two feet while he holds onto a toy or a windowsill or piece of furniture.

His naps didn't go as well today. For his morning nap he slept 30 minutes, cried a few minutes, and then slept 40 more minutes. For his afternoon nap the two segments totaled less than one hour so I decided to see if he would fall asleep a third time. Nope. I let him cry for about 45 minutes and then decided he wasn't going to be falling back asleep. He only slept for about 2 hours total between his two naps. I won't attempt to get him to fall back asleep a third time again. Hopefully his self-soothing skills (that he had for months prior to our vacation) will return at some point and he will sleep for at least 90 minutes straight without waking up and crying in the middle. Even though his naps aren't anywhere near as long as they were before Florida, it is MUCH easier to read books to Nadia and Ian and do homeschooling with Nadia when his naps are at least one hour long.