[ValiantJoy07]

Originally Posted by mamacat

It sounds like you are officially moving into that no nap transition which looks just like that. When they nap then tend to stay up latr or wake earlier.When they dont nap cranky afternoons and evenings.I will say for *us* once we got thru that rough time it was much better.My youngest would go to bed at 9 each night and sleep until 9 in the morning.My next youngest would also go to bed at 9 and sleep until 7 or 7:30

This. Nap transitions are the worst. As for the early wake ups if he's up that early I would make the morning as boring as possible. Relocate with your pillow to the couch, hand him a pre-made snack, and if you do screen time allow it to get a little more sleep. Or tell him your are still tired and need more rest and he can listen to stories next to you on the couch. This is usually when they crawled all over me and I didn't really sleep but it helped a bit to get an extra 45 minutes of rest. The dropping nap transition is really hard. Dd3 it was the worst, she dropped it at right after her 3rd Birthday (right around when she also weaned, and nap nursing was her last to give up). She is 4.5 and she still does the dance some days of needing a nap and being miserable, but unless we're in the car around 3/3:30 she will not fall asleep. I will say she became a rock hard solid sleeper when she dropped her naps, she was OUT.

Another thought, how is the air quality in your home? Have you had your filters changed? Is it damp? is there any thing environmentally that could be bothering him? Just wondering, I'm sure vacation wore him out- but I'm wondering if some thing at home isn't disturbing his sleep *just* enough to cause extra night wakings?