I feel like I’m posting every other week about naps. Seem to get it figured out and then we’re back to having trouble again.

We consolidated to 2 naps a day because my LO was completely boycotting his 3rd nap of the day. That was a great change for him and his schedule was perfect - he would go down around 9:45 and sleep about an hour. Then go back down between 1:30 and 2 and sleep anywhere from 1.5-3 hours.

Well now the last 3 days are screwed up again. He’s been waking up an hour earlier in the morning, but still going down for his morning nap at the same time. But he’s only sleeping 20-25 minutes for that nap. So then his afternoon nap is messed up because he is too crabby to stay up until 1:30 or 2. So I put him down a little earlier to avoid him getting too over tired. But he’s only sleeping about 35 minutes for that one! Then there’s like 5.5-6 hours until bedtime and the whole rest of our day is a mess.

He used to occasionally wake from a nap before he was ready, but he’d readjust position and go back to sleep. Now he just gets up on all 4s and if I don’t go in he starts screaming. He won’t go back to sleep. He does still put himself to sleep if he wakes up at night, just naps that he won’t.

I don’t know if maybe this is because he recently learned how to crawl so all he wants to do is get up and move and play now or what. Any suggestions? I need to get some stuff done around my house and I just can’t when he’s up because he’s so busy but doesn’t want me to leave the room. My dogs are shedding their winter coats and I can’t even vacuum when he’s awake because the sound of it scares him.