Yesterday he didn’t have a nap, he skips this occasionally, it’s not a concern, so we put him to bed on the earlier side around 6.30pm. Today he was up for the day at 5am, I half expected this because of the early bedtime, again nothing new. At least he only woke once and settled back in his own bed so it was a better night than usual. I expected him to be a bit tired today because of the early morning and no nap yesterday.
BUT then! We went to a safari park today and he had a 15 minute nap in the car on the way there around 9.50-10.05 so very early, but glad he got that in so he could enjoy the park. I didn’t worry about it because he could have another cat nap on the way home, except he didn’t! Because he’d been up so early and had his nap so early too I was expecting another early night, but homie didn’t go to sleep until 7.30! 14.5h hour day with a 15-minute cat nap! We started bedtime earlier and I took him into his room at 6.30, he lied down next to me and had some milk but when he was finished he just got up and started serving me breakfast. Then we played hats, looked at the fish stickers on his wall and eventually he asked me to pick him up and rock him for a few mins and then we lied down again and he went to sleep.
I just can’t figure it out! He has been trying to drop his nap since January. He copes well with no nap occasionally and does well with just a quick cat nap for about 4 days and then he’s shattered and needs a longer nap at least once. He doesn’t sleep particularly well at night, especially if he has a long nap, even though we then do later bedtime. He hasn’t slept in later than 6.30am since January when he first started skipping the nap, except for when he’s unwell. And I do mean that 6.30 is considered a lie in! Mostly he’s up 5.30-6am. Bedtime 7-7.30 or later if he naps longer (45min-1h)