Naps and nappies

Young Alice has all but dropped her lunchtime nap.  Just before she dropped it, she also stopped wearing nappies for it, which happened once by accident but since there were no actual accidents, became a regular fixture.  In answer to the mother I met at a birthday party last week (yes, we are in the January hell of constant children's birthday parties), yes, she does still wear nappies at night.  Yes, really.  I know.  She's nearly 3.  Did I mention that I have a 3 month old baby? 

Anyhoo.  While it was lovely to have the childfree time of a synchronised nap, it's also really nice that Alice has been able to go on daytrips with her visiting grandparents.  The way that she falls asleep at 7pm is also really great.  We bought her a clock that turns from pictures of stars and a blue glowing light to a picture of the sun and a yellow glowing light at a set time and she has just about cottoned onto waiting for the sun before getting up in the morning.  We had a few disturbed nights with the heat last week and also that she did start to wake if she needed a wee, but happily she's gone back to utilising the nappies of shame for now.

Juliet, on the other hand, has not cottoned onto the concept of silent nights as yet, so Alice is usually the first one up in our house and when the sun on the clock starts to shine, she has taken to getting herself up and sitting in the lounge until someone comes to find her.  If it were left to me, that could be quite some time, but Papa is usually up to go to work and Nanna has a pre-programmed need for a constant intake of tea, so is up early too.

So our youngest continues to wake up around 4ish and can usually be shh'd back to sleep until 5ish and can be shh'd again once or twice until the morning.  Pampers have now made it to Australia, so that has helped a bit, as she doesn't wake up wet any more.  She is able to be awake more in the day now, so we are pretty much in a perfect Gina day if not a perfect Gina night.  I don't know when that will come, but am slightly losing my mind in the wait.  It's a good job she's cute.