My girlies have been early to wake for most of their
lives. There was a {glorious} period of
time when they were about two, when they slept until 7:30, or even a little
later…but they’ve been waking up around 6:30-ish, give or take 15 minutes, for
most of the past six years.
Thanks to their {wonderfully fabulous} “OK to Wake” clock,
they were staying put until 7am, when they would call out, “Mommy! My clock is green! I slept well!” in perfect unison. But…when school started last year…I had to
wake them up at 6:15. It didn’t take
long before that was their new wake-up time.
And sometimes, particularly Baby B, would wake up even earlier.
[I can’t really complain, as the girls would stay upstairs,
usually reading, until it was a decent time to rise. But I hated that the girls were missing out
on sleep that I feel strongly they need.]
I’m not sure what to credit lately…maybe it’s the darker
fall mornings…maybe it’s our weekly soccer practice that keeps them up later
one night a week…maybe it’s the rigors of first grade…but our girls have been
SLEEPY lately. I don’t know that they
make it all the way to 7:00 on weekend mornings, but I’ve had to wake them up
(now at 6:30) many of the last school days…
…and what a treat that is!
There’s nothing yummier than warm, sleepy babies!
I usually tiptoe into their room and pick a bed to
join. I snuggle up next to someone and
begin whispering good morning to my “tinies”.
The girls will usually moan a bit and snuggle into me. I sometimes pretend I’m stretching out on the
bed, “…but it’s so lumpy!” And then I
call the girls my “lump-lumps”. They moan
and giggle and snuggle some more.
I raise their pajama tops and kiss their warm bellies. And then I sit up and pull them to me in my
lap. They snuggle in against me, their
heads still fitting remarkably well under my chin. I often physically stand them up and send them
on their way to the bathroom.
And…repeat with Baby #2.
There’s just something about bedhead and warm, snuggly
babies that takes me back to when they were little. And I love it.
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| (Baby B, from our traditional first-thing-in-the-morning pictures on the girls' sixth birthday.) |
Thank goodness for sleeping “in”.
3 comments:
Maybe the girls are going through a growth spurt. 😀
My girls hate getting up in the morning for school but 6 a.m. on a Saturday they are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for cartoons. Go figure! I have found the best way to get them up happily in the morning is to let our 100 lb. dog climb on their bed. I was totally against that in the beginning but it is so much nicer to see them wake up smiling. I am glad your girls always wake up that way!
I have one like me..... we LOVE our sleep.... and I have one like the grannies. They need little sleep and they wake super early.
I love the sleeping in but of course on the weekends, they both pop up bright and early (for us that's 7.30)!
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Our late nights and early mornings have left me with the exhausted ladies this school year! Sadly it is G who is gently waking both the ladies and myself everyday!
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