Powelly, my son was born on exactly the same day as yours!

Thank you everyone for your advice. We tried the last few days to go for 2 naps and, like Powelly said, it ended up with a fairly grumpy little man. It seems so cruel to keep him up when he is clearly tired! And for what, really?

I suspect we are at the very beginning of the transition from 3 naps to 2, and that while we transition for the next couple months, I will kind of need to play each day as it comes- some days 2 naps will be ok, some days he will need 3. Eventually the 2 nap days will increase and then take over. Is that how others have done it?