Okay, so what I hear you guys saying is that ideally, he would be napping from 12-2 and not from 11:30-1:30 right. If his nap started a little later (12:00) then he would be more likely to sleep in until 6:00 am, then that way he could probably go to bed at 7:00. The way it is now, because he naps at 11:30, he is really tired by 6:00-6:30pm and then gets up earlier (5:30am). The truth is that his day care nap isn't always at 11:30, sometimes it is at 11:45 or even at 12:00. I haven't really noticed a difference in his wake up time even when the nap takes place at 12:00 and even when on the weekends we put him down at 12:00 instead, he doesn't sleep in. During the weekends, should we mimic the day care schedule and put him down at 11:30 as well or try to push it a little later (12:00)? Also, I've noticed that he only takes a 1.5 hour nap on the weekends, which still means waking up at 1:30. But he is so tired by 11:30am that he is so ready for a nap.
So should it be nap is 6 hours after waking and bedtime is 4.5 hours after waking from nap? So if awake at 6:00, nap at 12:00 and if awake from nap at 1:30, then bedtime at 6:00? Although that bedtime is really early and it means that he is sleeping 12 hours overnight, which is too long I think.