Good Morning Sunshine!
June 8, 2009 by Lisa Beth
Every morning when Wyatt wakes up, he starts talking/singing to himself. Softly at first, then louder, and louder. I usually let him do this for a while hoping he’ll decide to snooze a bit longer. Hasn’t happened yet, but I’m still hopeful every morning. Once he gets sick of talking to himself, he’ll start yelling for me. “MOOOOMMMM! MOOOOMMMMMYYY!”
For some reason he will not get out of bed until I open his door and let him know it’s time to get up. I believe he thinks there are dinosaurs lurking under his bed and needs to see me to know it’s OK to put his feet over the side of the bed. I let him believe this, because it keeps him in bed. I guess I shouldn’t say I let him believe it, but more like I just don’t argue with him. Parenting at it’s best.
So every morning, I open his bedroom door and say, “Good morning sunshine! Did you have a good slumber?” I get a variety of responses. Here are some of them:
“I get up now?”
“Let’s play candy land” ( my personal favorite)
“Daddy still sleeping?”
“Brooklyn awake?”
“I need chocolate milk”
“I got wet biper (diaper)”
“My sock fell off”
“Timer goes off now?” (They use a timer at school for “time outs” and when it goes off, he can get out of time out. Apparently, sleep is one giant time out)
“I need fruit snacks”
Those are just a few of my favorites. Sometimes he has these complex stories, I assume he’s refferring to dreams he was having. Most mornings, I’m too busy rubbing the sleep out of my eyes to fully comprehend what he’s talking about. Love my boy.
Patty on Thu, 11th Jun 2009 12:55 pm
Love the new May and June photos!! Wyatt’s haircut is CUTE and look — he can finally reach the pedals on the Radio Flyer!! Brookelyn is a little dolly — can’t wait to smooch those cheeks next weekend!!