No Naps Mommy!

I thought babies this little (Gavin is six weeks old today), typically spend alot of time sleeping. But not this one. Gavin is sleeping really well at night, usually only waking up once to nurse, but we've found he's much happier in the evenings (as are we) when he gets at least a few naps in during the day as well. The only problem....he'd rather be up playing than sleeping!

For the majority of the day while Jared is on campus Gavin is content to be laid out on a blanket where he can look around and watch what's going on, or swing happily in his swing. Usually the only times he's really fussy during the morning or afternoon is when I'm trying to get him to fall asleep!

At first I would simply lay him down in his crib after nursing him. He'd be wide eyed and happy, looking around; I'd leave him alone thinking he'd eventually fall asleep, but once he gets tired of the view from his crib he'll start to whimper for me to come get him, then cry until I do. I go get him, lay him on the ground in the front room, and once again he's as content as can be to just lay there, wide away!

The past few days I've started trying to rock him to sleep in my arms before placing him in the crib, which works half the time, but the other half of the time this is what ends up happening: I'm sitting in the glider rocking Gavin in my arms; he dozes off but I make sure to rock a few minutes longer to make sure he's good and asleep before attempting to stand up and make my way to the crib. I successfully get up, get to the crib, and just as I'm about to lay him down a smile slowly creeps across his cute little face until his eyes suddenly pop open and he's grinning BIG!

He's saying, "I tricked you again Mommy, now can we go play!?" I so wish I could capture this charade of his on video because it is so stinkin' cute! About half the time he ends up winning at this point and I'm more than happy to just cuddle and play with my cute little boy, postponing nap time till later.