sleepy beepy

Eddie has been sleeping a lot lately. It all started this past weekend at Nanni and Gramps' house when he took two 3 hour naps in one day, something that he has never done before. This week he has been taking a nice solid nap in the morning, typically lasting for two hours and then he takes a good afternoon nap for 1.5 - 3 hours. Of course this is a good thing, and I hope it is a development that is here to stay. But it has sort of wrecked havoc on our class attendance. We were supposed to attend a library class on Wednesday at 11 a.m. but had to pass on that one when he fell asleep at 10 a.m. and didn't wake up until noon. And now today we should be at music class right now but he has been sleeping since 10:30 a.m. and is showing no sign of waking up soon. So I am sitting outside with the laptop enjoying this 65 degree day as the sun beats down on Marty and me.

Regarding nighttime sleep, he is also improving in that department too. He is still not consistently sleeping through the night, but does it every so often. On Thursday evening we put him to bed sort of early, around 6 p.m. because I went out with some friends, and Eddie said he played for a half hour and then cried for a half hour or so and fell asleep. When I texted him around nine o'clock the message said "Eddie is sleeping...Marty is crying" - my loyal dog is a basket case when I leave! And when I got home at quarter to 10, he was still sleeping soundly. Around 4 in the morning or so I naturally woke up and was a tad perplexed that little Eddie had never arisen to eat throughout the night. And then when big Eddie got up for work at 5 a.m. I told him so. So he went in the baby's room to check on him and gave him a little nudge. No movement. So, naturally being the paranoid first-timers we are, he gave him a bigger nudge to be sure he was still alive, and he woke up and starred at him with the most bizarre confused expression. Luckily he didn't seem too perturbed that we had awoken him and he (and I) got up at that early hour and started our day. Today he slept through until 4:30 a.m. and then I fed him and he went back to bed until almost 9 a.m. So, maybe he is growing or something...or as Dr. Weissbluth says, "sleep begets sleep"...maybe the good solid nighttime sleep means that he will take longer naps throughout the day.