The Early Morning Club....

Frowzy

So it's 10 to 7 in the morning and breakfast has been eaten and we're now colouring and watching a Superman movie that we SkyPlussed!

My little man is 3 and an early riser....

Anyone else up?

abouttobebanned

We're up we're up! We're up we're up! Everybody's up!

January

Ben and Holly while feeding the newborn here!!

Continent Simian

Snoozing in bed as my lovely wife feeds the little one.

(We take turns on the weekend.)

Frowzy

Continent Simian wrote: »

(We take turns in the weekend.)

Us too... Hubby will be up for Moto GP then I'll get my snooze :-)

thomasm

Like last year clocks going back has messed up our twins big time. Normally wake at 5.30 to 6am but now waking at 4.10 on the dot and are ready to play. Can't understand why it has happened again..... Bedtime for us is now 9pm

Frowzy

thomasm wrote: »

Like last year clocks going back has messed up our twins big time. Normally wake at 5.30 to 6am but now waking at 4.10 on the dot and are ready to play. Can't understand why it has happened again..... Bedtime for us is now 9pm

Twins!! Wow... They must sleep through the day surely? How old are they?

Fittle

We're up too! My lad is 9 now but didn't sleep for a full night and woke at 6am for the first two years of his life...I think my bodyclock is all over the place since then, as I still wake up about 6am, and have to get out of bed...

He's awake himself..but now chills out a bit watchin tv in his room until about 9....

thomasm

Frowzy wrote: »

thomasm wrote: »

Like last year clocks going back has messed up our twins big time. Normally wake at 5.30 to 6am but now waking at 4.10 on the dot and are ready to play. Can't understand why it has happened again..... Bedtime for us is now 9pm

Twins!! Wow... They must sleep through the day surely? How old are they?

19 months, they go for about an hour during the day. Their 3 year old brother was the same at that age. He goes to about 6.15 now. Throw in 34 teeth in the last year and sleep has been a luxury

Birdie086

Up about thirty minutes with my five year old so not bad, except i didnt get any sleep cos my partner kept trying to erm wake me, never thought i would be too tired, but the day has arrived.

How Strange

We take turns too. I was up at 7.30 yesterday morning and my husband got up at the same time today. Last week I was up at 5.45 because of the hour change so 7.30 feels like a lie-on. It's a good thing I'm a morning person.

qwertytlk

Are all kids early risers? My son (5months) will sleep in untill 10 or even 11 some days. He gets naps during the day and goes to sleeo for the night between 8-9. Is the normal or am i just lucky?!

How Strange

Very lucky!

littlebug

7am is our norm now with the youngest being the first to wake (occasionally earlier). We're lucky now.... 5.45 am was his waking time for a few years :rolleyes: Mon- fri I get to stay in bed an extra hour or so until hubby is leaving for work and at weekends he gets a nice long lie in and I get up early.

January

qwertytlk wrote: »

Are all kids early risers? My son (5months) will sleep in untill 10 or even 11 some days. He gets naps during the day and goes to sleeo for the night between 8-9. Is the normal or am i just lucky?!

Pfft... lucky witch...

Abi

January wrote: »

Ben and Holly while feeding the newborn here!!

That really is such a lovely cartoon. There's so much crap on the TV these days, and of little or no educational value to children.

thomasm wrote: »

Like last year clocks going back has messed up our twins big time. Normally wake at 5.30 to 6am but now waking at 4.10 on the dot and are ready to play. Can't understand why it has happened again..... Bedtime for us is now 9pm

Tough now, but it won't be forever

Frowzy

It's 10 past 7 and I'm up or two hours already. Little man has got worse since the dark mornings/evenings arrived! Absolutely cannot keep him awake after 7pm. So we've already watched Me Too, Charlie and Lola and now Postman Pat.

Never mind, I'll be in bed in the morning while my husband watches cartoons and colours :-)

TheWarrior

Frowzy wrote: »

It's 10 past 7 and I'm up or two hours already. Little man has got worse since the dark mornings/evenings arrived! Absolutely cannot keep him awake after 7pm. So we've already watched Me Too, Charlie and Lola and now Postman Pat.

Never mind, I'll be in bed in the morning while my husband watches cartoons and colours :-)

Up since 5.40 AM - my little man always gets up early on a saturday:eek:.Sleeps til 8 all week long.

stovelid

Been up since 630.

Nursing a coffee and watching Fireman Sam with the kids, one of which had me up for a fair few hours last night!

My 3 year old goes until 8 no worries but my 15-month old is always up early.

How Strange

I thought I'd bump this up. We're awake since 5am, I got up with my son and gave him cuddles to settle him then at 5.45 he started kicking off again so we just got up. We had breakfast and a little bit of playtime and he went for a nap at 7.45 and is still there. Unfortunately I have to wake him as we've got swimming at 10.30.

Haven't seen this thread before - good to know we're not alone!

We're up since 5 too. Herself is teething - we tried calpol, tried a feed, tried keeping her in the bed and while she was relatively happy there for a while, (she likes to entertain herself by sticking her fingers up my nose!?!) she got bored. In the end we got up at 6 and watched tv in bed. Daddy took her for a while and I got a snooze, now I'm up and those 2 are snoozing. Nice to have the house to myself.

Will be wrecked later though - I'm 10 weeks pregnant and really need my sleep these days.

lonestargirl

My guy decided 2.47 was up time this morning, full of the joys of life, got him back for about an hour around 5 and them daddy got up with him. Baba and I had a lovely snooze from 9.30 -12.30 though - it was needed! His cheek is red rosy now so I suspect that is what woke him so early even though he wasn't complaining at the time.

Frowzy

It's Christmas Eve, it's 8am and I've been awake for 3 hours.

The ham is cooking, the desserts are prepared, vegetables peeled, and I'm wrecked. However, it's the best time of the year to be a parent. Going to sit down now and watch a Christmas movie with them.

In case anyone doesn't know, Santas progress can be tracked online this evening. Google NORAD Santa, it's the North American Space Agency and every year on Christmas Eve they track Santa so children know when to go to sleep.

Happy Christmas everyone x

Khannie

OMG. Pity party for you! I got a lie in this morning. 10 am. First time ever too. Absolutely delighted.

cynder

Santa came! cant wiat for the kids to wake up, im sick with a migraine from lack of sleep, oh the excitement..

merry christmas!

The Internet Explorer

grindelwald wrote: »

Santa came!

nesf

Up all night with insomnia as usual, waiting impatiently for the kids to wake up and come down to claim their presents.

littlebug

5.45 am the excitement was just too much

Lola92

I got to bed at 2am, had been watching the end of a film. Just closed my eyes and she wakes up don't think I'll be sleeping tonight...

lynski

i feel your pain!
My bad night is like this
7pm - daughter to bed
7:30 is son to bed, put daughter back to bed for maybe the 3rd time
7:45 son asleep put daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
8pm put daughter back to bed again with threats
8:30pm put baby son to bed and daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
have dinner with hubbie and maybe a little tidy up and a doze
10:30 toilet trip for daughter
midnight feed baby and hopefully get him back to sleep
1am go to bed
1:25 fall asleep
1:30 wake up again to baby crying take baby into bed
1:45 asleep with baby in bed
3am put baby back in cot and put son back in bed, pick up crying baby and get back into bed
3:45 repeat
5:30 tell son no it is not up time go back to bed and please dont wake your sister
6:15 tell son and daughter to keep it down and keep the door closed
7am UP time!
All the while hubbie gently snores in the background.
there are nights when both older one sleep mostly, but i have at least one bad night a week.

nesf

The kids are sleeping in this morning. Which would be fine if I wasn't insomniac and up all night anyway. I'd almost welcome them waking early, I'd feel useful and productive then.

Lola92

I put her back into the cot around 6am she mooched for a while but fell back asleep then. Woke again at 8.30 but the OH got up with her then and I got a lie in til 12 with brekkie in bed!!! Not so bad after all

Frowzy

Why is it that you have to drag them out of bed on a school day but in the holidays.....

I'm feeling sorry for myself this morning, as I've figured out that it's 12.5 years since I had a restful sleep (probably my own fault for having such a gap between them). I'm consoling myself that someday I'll be the smug one at work who's kids are old enough to fend for themselves :-)

As an aside, there's a woman at work who tells me I'm mothering my kids too much. Her kids often get up and eat ice cream for breakfast, she doesn't care as long as she gets to lie in. She says that I should have the oldest (who's 11) getting up with the youngest (3) and getting him his breakfast. I feel that I had them I'll raise them, plus they'd have sick stomachs eating ice cream.... I don't always complain about them, don't get me wrong, but she noticed that I looked Particularly tired one day.....

Am I over mothering my boys?
If wanting them to have a solid breakfast is over mothering then I'm guilty! Also people don't understand that I choose not to go out, especially at this time of year, but I'd prefer to be cheery in the morning, I don't drink anyway! I always have all the kids for New Years, we have a party, I think it's more special for them than being left with a babysitter who shoves them off to bed. OMG am I too protective?

Frowzy

lynski wrote: »

i feel your pain!
My bad night is like this
7pm - daughter to bed
7:30 is son to bed, put daughter back to bed for maybe the 3rd time
7:45 son asleep put daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
8pm put daughter back to bed again with threats
8:30pm put baby son to bed and daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
have dinner with hubbie and maybe a little tidy up and a doze
10:30 toilet trip for daughter
midnight feed baby and hopefully get him back to sleep
1am go to bed
1:25 fall asleep
1:30 wake up again to baby crying take baby into bed
1:45 asleep with baby in bed
3am put baby back in cot and put son back in bed, pick up crying baby and get back into bed
3:45 repeat
5:30 tell son no it is not up time go back to bed and please dont wake your sister
6:15 tell son and daughter to keep it down and keep the door closed
7am UP time!
All the while hubbie gently snores in the background.
there are nights when both older one sleep mostly, but i have at least one bad night a week.

Oh dear.... Sympathy for you!!

Your story reminds me of the woman on telly who was asked what she'd do if a burglar came into her bedroom in the middle of the night, her answer: "at this stage I'd probably take him by the hand and bring him to the toilet."

cynder

Jumped up at 5am this morning due to hearing banging in my sleep, woke the whole house up to thinking my daughter was having a hypo /fit in her sleep and had to wake her up to make sure she wasnt in a coma.... thats happening a lot lately as she had a sever hypo 2 months ago and i had to call an ambulance at 1am as i didnt have the emergency injection.

Think its still lurking somewhere in my subconscious.

Morag

I don't think you are Frowzy given your youngest is only 3.
It's only in the last two years that I am comfortable with mine being up and getting breakfast themselves and even then I set the table the night before. These days they are 11 and 13 and didn't wake today until after 10 and then brought me a cup of tea in bed when I woke at 11.

But the early mornings and the disturbed nights do end, so do the spontaneous cuddles and sloppy kisses.

lynski

Frowzy wrote: »

Oh dear.... Sympathy for you!!

Your story reminds me of the woman on telly who was asked what she'd do if a burglar came into her bedroom in the middle of the night, her answer: "at this stage I'd probably take him by the hand and bring him to the toilet."

or give him a boob hehehe

nicowa

Morning! Though the way I'm feeling after last night (and it's only my first night home from hospital... )

Yve

10 mth old little man, over 6 mths pregnant.

Breakfast well over.up since 06.30.

Peppa Pig Xmas Special DVD on and little man in the middle of his morning poo

Yve

nicowa wrote: »

Morning! Though the way I'm feeling after last night (and it's only my first night home from hospital... )

Awww congrats

thomasm

thomasm wrote: »

Like last year clocks going back has messed up our twins big time. Normally wake at 5.30 to 6am but now waking at 4.10 on the dot and are ready to play. Can't understand why it has happened again..... Bedtime for us is now 9pm

I'm calling it the christmas miracle, since Christmas day they have started sleeping to 6.20am. No reason I can see for the change but thank Christ

nesf

Kids have switched from early rising to late sleeping during holidays. Annoying. Have the 5 year old asleep for several hours but the 2 year old is still acting up. It's due to being down at my parents I think, they always get very unsettled when they're in a new environment for some reason.

lynski

lynski wrote: »

i feel your pain!
My bad night is like this
7pm - daughter to bed
7:30 is son to bed, put daughter back to bed for maybe the 3rd time
7:45 son asleep put daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
8pm put daughter back to bed again with threats
8:30pm put baby son to bed and daughter back to bed again after toilet trip
have dinner with hubbie and maybe a little tidy up and a doze
10:30 toilet trip for daughter
midnight feed baby and hopefully get him back to sleep
1am go to bed
1:25 fall asleep
1:30 wake up again to baby crying take baby into bed
1:45 asleep with baby in bed
3am put baby back in cot and put son back in bed, pick up crying baby and get back into bed
3:45 repeat
5:30 tell son no it is not up time go back to bed and please dont wake your sister
6:15 tell son and daughter to keep it down and keep the door closed
7am UP time!
All the while hubbie gently snores in the background.
there are nights when both older one sleep mostly, but i have at least one bad night a week.

Was reviving this thread for a moan at the 6:35 start AGAIN this week, but after reading this I realise things have massively improved in the last few weeks

Now the older 2 sleep from 7:30 to 6:30 for the boy who then wakes the girl, but he slept until 7:30 twice this week.
And baby only akes once a night now, so much better,
but still 6 f-ing 35! and on a bank holiday monday...
time for a doze while they watch roly mo

Continent Simian

Remember the bad old days, when you would snooze 'til noon and then only get up because you were bored of lying in bed. Bored of lying in bed!

Once up, you would pad about a silent house until hunger moved you to the local cafe. A long, late lunch becomes a liquid dinner and, before you'd know it, you'd be back in bed again, content and tipsy.

Those were dark times.