In the past few weeks, Holden has discovered the wonderful world of pulling up and standing. And of course, there's no better place to practice this new skill than in the crib. So every time we've put him down for a nap, the seemingly sleepy yawning boy perks up to gleefully have some independent play time. At first this new nap time challenge presented us with some deep frustrations: he figured how to get up, but couldn't safely get himself down. So we'd either have to come in and teach him how to get down (over and over again, reminding him that it's "nap time"), or we'd suddenly here a loud cry and know that he clunked himself against the side. This required some soothing and made a productive nap period nearly impossible.
Thankfully this week Holden seems to have gotten the hang of getting back down himself. In fact, this has become his new obsession during wake hours. Thus, nap times seem to be getting better. Last week--I'd have to go in about 5 times each nap to help him down--and it would take up to an hour (and a lot of protests!) for him to actually fall asleep. This week: about 20 minutes of self-play. Woot! Glad this little stage is quickly passing.
And to think that years ago, we adults preferred standing to sleeping.
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