Sleeping Away

I rarely, if ever, get pictures of Brayden sleeping during his afternoon nap. I would love to - the natural light is so great during the afternoon - but he sleeps pretty lightly during this time. However, I found out if I go in when it is about time for him to wake up, I can snap a few. I opened his blinds to let in the light, turned off the sound on my camera, and it turns out that some pretty precious shots of my little guy came out.

Dropping a Nap...

We are in the process of a "schedule adjustment."  Since becoming parents, we have adopted the practices of the book Babywise.  (I highly recommend this book to any parent or to-be parent.  It is an amazing tool to help your baby develop a schedule of feeding, waketime, and naptime.)  Since Brayden has begun to eat solid foods, we've moved onto the book Babywise II which addresses all the new stages of this lil' one.  Brayden wasn't sleeping through the night anymore, so we've decided to drop one of his late afternoon naps (which this book recommends).  Well...the poor thing is so used to napping!  We try and try to keep him awake, but as you can see, this was to no avail.  He was bouncing away in his seat; I went into the kitchen for about 30 seconds, came back, and my precious little boy was sound asleep!  

Oh well!  He needed his sleep...now, hopefully he will give me mine tonight!