Recently, I felt she was ready to come down from three naps to just two, a morning and mid-afternoon nap. While all my friends with babies the same age are reducing to 1 nap, I was quite happy to get down to two, as Iz has always needed short, frequent bursts throughout the day. I had thought maybe she would increase the length of her naps....I was incorrect! She would maybe push it to 40minutes, but that was it.
For the last week, however, she has completely thrown all that out the window, and been having mammoth (for her!) naps. The record stands at 1hour 50minutes, and each morning nap has been at least 1hour long! I have two friends whose toddlers so for 3 hours a day, and have always been so jealous of people with so much "baby free" time at home during the day. I have often said "if Isabelle napped that long my house would be spotless!"
So....what exactly am I doing with my now huge amounts of free time? Is the house, in fact, spotless?
Is it heck.
I do what I imagine most other people do.....squander my time aimlessly surfing Facebook!
Partly, that is because I refuse to believe that she is going to keep up these long naps. I am convinced that the day I start into a task, she will wake up after 30 minutes, and it will have to be abandoned. And, partly, it's because I really enjoy sitting down with a cup of tea and having some time to just SIT.
This new mammoth napping schedule has played total havoc with our baby class attendance, meaning we've missed them all...apart from our breastfeeding group, where we turned up fashionably late (40mins).
But, if these naps are here to stay, I think I really need to be a little more productive during them. Ok, so I can't walk the dogs, and I don't want to Hoover (just in case I wake her early- perish the thought!), but there are a million little things I COULD be doing. Like cleaning the windows, or the skirting boards, or emptying that cupboard I constantly look in and say "must clear this out".
So, fingers crossed the long naps remain, and fingers crossed even more tightly that I stop being so lazy while they happen!
