Saturday, June 14, 2008

Sleepyhead!

So I have decided to save myself the frustration and I have stopped putting Ransom in bed for a nap. I figure when he is tired enough he will fall asleep. I know a crazy approach, but we have found that Ransom does not require as much sleep as Ashton and that if he takes a nap he stays up until at least 10 pm and now that means that he is running around until 10 pm. No thank you!
On Wednesday, at nap time Tahlia was in bed and the boys were playing in their room so I layed down on my bed and fell asleep, I woke up 15 minutes later and I did not hear the boys so I got up to check on them and went down stairs and found that Ashton had cleaned up all the toys and took Ransom outside to play. They were happy so I let them play, until bed time. Then Thursday I just let them do their thing and the played all day in and out and all around. When we sat down for dinner I looked over at Ransom and this is what I found. His eyes kept closing and John asked him if he wanted to lay down and he said "unhun." I took him and washed him up and layed him on the couch and a few minutes later he was asleep. Then Ashton did the same thing. A little later we put all three in bed early and for the first time in a long time we had a nice long quite evening and we watched a movie together. That was so nice.

1 comment:

Danna said...

We are at the same place with Fern, with her 5pm is the hard hour. If I can just get her to stay awake for dinner then she sleeps well at night, if she gets a nap... well you know!! :) Glad to hear someone elce has the crazy sleep ideas too! Love ya!!