We get lots of questions about Will's look. True, he is the only tan blonde in a family full of very dark brunettes and I'll be the first to admit that it looks a little strange but I finally have the 100%, without a doubt, confirmation you've all needed to show that he was not switched at birth in the hospital nursery.
You see, our other two children went through a stage for about oh, 3 years or so, in which they woke up before the sun. Seriously. There was a time when John was about 2 when he woke up at 4:30 EVERY MORNING and was up and ready for the day. Have you ever been so tired you thought you might throw up? It's not a good feeling.
As you can probably guess, Will is now following in his brother and sister's footsteps and joined the Early Risers Club.
6:45 a month ago was just fine with us. We are 6:45-type of people, so that was just mighty fine. Well, 6:45 quickly turned to 6:30 which turned to 6:15....which is now 5:30 am.
The problem is that he shares a room with John, so when he wakes up that early hollerin' about starting his day, he gives John a quick jumpstart to his day as well.
We've just completed Day 1 of Tough Love: Operation Sleep Later. John slept in the guest room so he could complete his morning sleep cycle uninterrupted. Will was up at 5:30 on the nose and you wanna know what we did about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He stayed in his crib fussing off & on until 6:20. (By the way, in case you are worried about his health & well-being and feeling abandoned...he was just fine when I came into his room. Big smiles for mom. No hard feelings.)
Our theory is if he gets used to waiting until sometime in the six o'clock hour to be tended to...maybe his little body will just decide that sleep is a better way to spend that time instead of scraping his pacifiers along the crib slats like a prisoner scraping a metal cup along the bars of the pokey.
Stay tuned.
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