Mekhi stayed up pretty late last night, since we were babysitting his 3 cousins in the evening, and there was way too much fun being had to enforce the usual bedtime. Usually he is in bed at 8:00pm, but last night it was close to 9:30 before he was tucked in. This morning he didn't come into our room until almost 8am, instead of his usual 6:30-7am waking time.
Most often when he wakes up he follows a routine called "pillow-time." He's been doing pillow-time for several months now, but we didn't know it had a title until he recently used that term to refer to it. A standard pillow-time morning consists of him waking up, immediately coming to our room to open the door and let Bayley (our 10 year old beagle) out of our room. Then he usually shuts the door again and gets several pillows off the couch, and usually either a blanket off of the couch, or his favorite "blue blanket" that he's had since he was an infant. He places the pillows and blanket in the little hallway by our bedroom door and since our door is closed we don't actually see what he does out there, we can hear him playing, and talking or singing until we get up. Then when we come out we see the evidence of pillow-time, which usually includes a few toys and occasionally a few kitchen utensils. He's very good at self-entertaining while we grab a few extra winks before we gather the energy to get up and join him.
Most often when he wakes up he follows a routine called "pillow-time." He's been doing pillow-time for several months now, but we didn't know it had a title until he recently used that term to refer to it. A standard pillow-time morning consists of him waking up, immediately coming to our room to open the door and let Bayley (our 10 year old beagle) out of our room. Then he usually shuts the door again and gets several pillows off the couch, and usually either a blanket off of the couch, or his favorite "blue blanket" that he's had since he was an infant. He places the pillows and blanket in the little hallway by our bedroom door and since our door is closed we don't actually see what he does out there, we can hear him playing, and talking or singing until we get up. Then when we come out we see the evidence of pillow-time, which usually includes a few toys and occasionally a few kitchen utensils. He's very good at self-entertaining while we grab a few extra winks before we gather the energy to get up and join him.
This morning, however, there was no pillow-time. Mekhi came in at almost 8am, climbed up into bed next to me, and snuggled. Now that is the perfect way for a mom to start a day... with snuggles from her favorite 3 year-old :) He snuggled for a good solid 5 minutes before he very softly said "Mommy, can you get me some oatmeal?" So we got up and had some breakfast.
It's amazing what 5 minutes of snuggle time can do for my motivation to start the day! I hope that we have more snuggle time mornings in the future. Especially with little sister Phoebe due to join us so soon, the more snuggles I can get from my sweet boy, the better!
It's amazing what 5 minutes of snuggle time can do for my motivation to start the day! I hope that we have more snuggle time mornings in the future. Especially with little sister Phoebe due to join us so soon, the more snuggles I can get from my sweet boy, the better!
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