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We need some blackout blinds
September 18, 2007
Mia's definition of morning is simply whether or not the sun has come up. If it has, or if it looks like it might soon, then she's up and ready to go. And since sunrise is about 5:45am, we're up pretty early around here.
This morning, it seemed to take a bit longer for her to notice the light. Probably because of the typhoon-- it's a pretty dark and dreary day. So we were lucky enough to "snuggle" until 6:30am. Notice that I didn't say SLEEP. Every morning, in my delusional early morning state, I try to convince her to sleep a few minutes longer and somehow I think that this will be the morning it works. I tell her she can come to my bed and we'll snuggle. I try to sleep another minute and a half, while she jumps around the bed trying to make sure that doesn't happen. Eventually, and by this I mean within 10 minutes, she gets bored of this arrangement and announces that it's time to "Go downstairs!" I try to pretend I didn't hear her, so it's usually followed by a request for breakfast. "Hungry for some food? Let's open the fridge and see. Mia needs a breakfast! Go downstairs!" By this point, there's really no use in trying to put it off anymore, so we get out of bed and trek downstairs. Sometimes I request a good morning hug and kiss before she gets her way and she's happy to oblige. She knows that means she's just won! I think she's starting to get the hang of it though. Today she climbed on top of me, started squeezing me and rolling back and forth, yelling, "BIG HUGS! BIG HUGS!" She followed this up with a kiss, then jumped off the bed and announced, "Go downstairs! Mommy sleeping ALL DAY!"
Posted by Kimberly at September 18, 2007 06:35 AM
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Oh god. We're both going to have kids who love mornings aren't we.
Figures.
Posted by: Jay at September 19, 2007 04:58 AM