Naps

I guess naps were never discussed in the "So you want to have a baby" classes Jeff and I took when I was pregnant. If they were, I may not have so many questions about naps. Do we skip the morning nap, do I force the afternoon nap, should I drive 50 miles out of my way so the baby can sleep - this question is usually asked about 10 minutes from out destination.

Arwen has friends her age that don't take a morning nap. And it would seem that we'll never see them as long as we stay on this current schedule. Arwen likes to wake up at 6am. Her friends sleep until 8am or longer. By the time they are getting ready for the day, Arwen is waving to everything in the house. She does this wave thing to let me know that she's ready to sleep. This way neither of us has to actually say the word nap or the word sleep.

I thought at first that maybe I needed to work on getting her some new friends that she would stay awake to see. But everyday I watch her stare out the dining room window and say these words "Jack, Joe, Jack, Jackie!!", as she look at Jackson and Joseph's house. So I am now sure that her friends fall far above the acceptable line, and I have decided that she just wakes up too early to keep up with her friends.

Which in the end is good, because who has time to get new friends!