Goodbye Naps

Sadly, as of this week we are done with naps for Ethan. He will still take naps pretty willingly and it's hard for him to get up when I go in and wake him up after two hours but bedtime is becoming too hard. He will come out of his bed over and over until 9-10pm. This week he still tries to stay up when it's bedtime but once we are done with the bedtime routine he has been staying in bed! I was tired of battling naps and bedtime and this makes for a quieter evening, plus he wakes later in the morning. I'm trying to teach him about quiet time where he plays by himself in the playroom and after that he can watch a show. He has been doing pretty well with it so far.

This afternoon as I was preparing him for quiet time I said: "Ethan, you are going to learn how to play independently, which means by yourself."
Ethan: I'm going to play "pendently" in there (pointing at the playroom)
Me: Yeah, that will be fun! You can play with your blocks, play trains, build tracks with Jenga...whatever you want.
Ethan: Oh, you can play pendently with me! That's fun!
Me: yeah, it is but so is independent play.
Ethan: Oh, I play there (pointing to his toys) and your quiet time is there (pointing at the computer)
Me: yeah, you got it!

As I type he is playing next to me with Jenga by himself! For Ethan that is huge. He loves to play with others which is understandable but everyone needs to learn to play on their own sometimes.