Many things are learned by trial and error (mostly error). This week, all of us have learned what constitutes a good nap regimen for you and what constitutes a bad nap regimen. A good nap regimen is a short cat nap mid morning (on the way to a play session at the mall or church), followed by a 2-3 hour nap starting sometime between 1 and 2 pm. This means you are tired by 8 pm and fall asleep with little fuss between finishing your bottle and 9 pm.

The last several days have been bad nap regimens. For example, you sleep for 45 minutes starting at noon. Then you are awake the whole afternoon until you have a melt down around dinner time and have no choice but to sleep. This dinner nap stretches for 1-1.5 hours (even if Mommy and Daddy try to wake you up), then you are still wide awake at 9:30 pm and wonder why Mommy and Daddy look grouchy.