The Sixty Sixth Night through The Seventieth Night

What a life!

So instead of laying out all the days and nights, I'll just give a summary.

Collin has been going to bed at night pretty well. He does sometimes still cry for a while but most nights he cries/fusses for about 15 minutes before he goes off to sleep.

Naps are pretty good too. If we are home all day, He will take 3 naps. The first one of the day being the longest at about two hours and the last one being the shortest at about an hour. If we are out and about, he will sleep in the car and then want to take a long nap when we get home, so I try to make sure he doesn't nap past 5:30pm, as I want him to be in bed for the night by 7:30pm.

Now, where is the problem? The problem is with wake up time! He was sleeping 11 hours a night, which was great - down about 7:30pm and up about 6:30am. I was happy with that, but lately, he has been getting up between 4am and 5am! Not good, not good!!

We visited the pediatrician the other day (wanted to rule out an ear infection as he was pulling at his ears - it's his teeth - like he needs more teeth, right?) and mentioned the early wake up time. She said her kids were getting up early also and she believes it is because of the light. Hmmm... our sleep expert felt this had nothing to do with sleep at all but we figured we would try it.

We blocked out the bedroom windows last night and guess what?

Collin was up at 3:00 am!!!!

Humph, now that had the opposite effect that we wanted it to have!!!

Ugh. Well, we will just keep plugging along and see what develops!