Afternoon Naps: Same Time! Same Room!

Fans, right at this very moment, both Ekkers children are asleep in their room! We have been tracking Baby Brid's naps on her daily reports from daycare, and it seems she has pretty well sorted herself into a morning nap around 8am and so we've decided we can no longer be toting her here and there and letting her sleep on the fly. Instead, we'll do what we can to make sure she's usually at home and in her crib for naps (hence the boys' trip to Target and Whole Foods this morning without the girls).

The morning nap is all well and good in that at most we'd have to take Joe in there for a diaper change and he gets he needs to be quiet in the room when Clara is sleeping, and generally is. But we'd never attempted any mixing during Joe's afternoon nap and as we may have noted before, there is little (read: nothing) out there in books on this topic. So today, we bit the bullet!

Clara got sleepy as expected shortly before noon, and Julie put her down. All was well. But then, trouble: just before Joe was carried in, Baby Bird awoke! Julie and Ted were like, "No way, Bird." She was still tired; her cries totally gave it away! So she cried off and on for about half and hour. Joe made no sound (must have been mystified by someone making almost as much noise as he usually does before going to sleep), and now, they are both napping, in the afternoon, in the same room!