Has anyone heard anything about additional sleep signifying a growth spurt or developmental leap in pre-schoolers?
I ask because DD, who is nearly 4 and usually doesn't nap, napped for four hours today. She just didn't want to wake up. And this evening we've had three 'new' behaviours - first was drawing a family picture - she usually gets v bored with drawing and ends up just scribbling everywhere, but this was clearly two adults and a child with the appropriate number of limbs and features; the second was asking some quite thoughtful questions about where food comes from; and the third was understanding and asking questions in a second language (we moved abroad recently and she has been slow to pick up the native language).
I am just fascinated and wondered if there might be any connection. Googling just turns up info about young babies.