The baby sleep book that we read has advice on everything: getting your child to sleep, keeping them asleep, even how to handle the time change. Their helpful advice for ending Daylight Savings Time? Simply ignore the time change and your child will adjust automatically.
Ha!
Ignore the time change, my arse.
IGNORE IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about having kids, it’s that they always do exactly the opposite of what you want them to do. If they sleep until 7:30 a.m. on Friday, whatever you do, don’t start hoping that the same thing will happen when Saturday morning rolls around. In fact, if experience is any guide, you should assume that the child will actually wake up several hours earlier just to spite you. Toddlers are sneaky like that.
So as I reset my clock on Saturday night, I went to bed thinking that Evan had been sleeping until 7 am pretty well for the last couple of weeks so maybe we’d hear from him around 6:00. In my dreams!
Instead, I was awakened at 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning to the sounds of Evan happily talking about what he wanted to do that day.
“Go walk” he said clearly, over and over.
“Go walk!”
He also threw in some discussion of Elmo (“Melmo”).
After ignoring him for an hour we were finally forced to get up and mainline coffee until the bleary-eyed state cleared up at, oh, about 3 pm.
Grrrr.
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When did you leave a comment on my blog. That shows you how diligent I have been to my blogging obligations. Great to see you guys this weekend. -Aunt Melmo!!!
...that is why god made kids cute... I mean really, if he looked like a gawky teenager, you'd never put up with this torture :)
best of luck, happy halloween, and happy napping
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