Morning habits

For the longest time, Emma used to sleep in between 0700 and 0800. But in the last couple weeks she started getting up at 0600. At that time she came into our bed and while at first she would just lay down, it didn't take long for her to get distracted with the cats and start wallowing all over us so that we could not get any more sleep. Since Jason has been on leave the last couple of weeks, we have been staying up late and wishing to get more sleep than 0600.

Finally, one morning, Jason had enough of waking up at 0600 or sometimes before then. When he heard Emma coming in the room he told her to go back to her bed. She cried on the way to her bed, but then we heard her shut her door, get back in bed and quiet down. Later that morning at 0900 she got up again, came in our room and woke us up again. This time we were more rested.

So, the next morning, Jason did the same thing. Emma went back to her bed with less crying.

Emma is such a quick learner. The morning after that, I heard Emma open her door and I thought "here we go again. " But Emma did not come in our room. Instead, she went to the bunny and said, "Mommy's sleeping. Daddy's sleeping." Admiral heard her talking and sat up in his bed making his collar jingle. Emma heard it and yelled out, "Admiral! Stay! You're scaring Mowg."

Shortly after that, Emma tried to come in our room quietly, but I told her to go back to her room. She went back with out a fuss, shut her door, and later on at 0900 got up again and came in to wake us up.

Continuing to learn from her experiences, the next morning Emma did not even come out of her room. At 0900 she opened her door for the first time and crept slowly into our room. We did not even know she was there until we saw her in the mirror. Jason laughed and "held out his scepter" to her. She came in and as she climbed up on the bed she said, "Did you sleep?" She's so cute! Sometimes I just can't stand it. Since then, Emma has not come out of her room until 0900.