Dee’s Room – 6:30am

We’re into building forts now. It’s our new “thing.”

Actually, what “we’re into” is seeing the sunrise.   Every.freaking.day.   From the hours of 7:30pm to 5:30am Dee is sleeping like a champ.    But come 5:30?   HELLO!   GOOD MORNING!   PUT A BOOBIE IN MY MOUTH, MAKE THAT CRAZY SHADE THING GO BOING!  AND LET’S GET THIS PARTY STARTED, LADY!    {The entire eastern facing wall of our house is made of glass.   Which is lovely on our electrical bill, but horrible for getting babies to sleep past sunrise.   So Scott installed a blackout screen in Dee’s room.   The girl lives for the moment when you pull the bottom of the screen and it rolls up in a single SWISH.    It’s like her bugle, or her rooster or whatever might signal the beginning of your day, and she is rarin’ to go}

So we alternate.  Every day, one of us graciously gets up with her to “play” and the other gets to sleep until…y’know, a non-god-forsaken hour.    {By playing, I mean we’ve baby proofed the crap out of her bedroom, and we go in there with her and lay on the floor pretending to catch a few more winks until she finally beats us into submission and playtime commences.}   And the other day when “playtime” included a game of ‘peek-a-boo’ in which I momentarily tossed a blanket over Dee’s head and asked her “Where’s Deedee?” she discovered her love of being under things.   So now, we build forts.   And when Scott groggily wanders in to relieve me, with his own chorus of “where’s deedee?” she giggles wildly (and very un-sneakily) until he “finds” us.    Or sometimes, she can’t stand the anticipation and “surprises” him first.

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Forts are one of the best things about childhood. My kids wreck them the instant they are built, though!

super adorable! love it! poppy also loves playing in/under things - i'm going to build her a play teepee soon! (will post a blog photo-tutorial as i go.)

your babe is seriously so, SO cute. love her!

cheers!

My daughter LOVES to play hide and go seek with us. She makes us count to ten and she counts any where from 3 to 10 depending on her mood lol. She sometimes finds good hiding spots but giggle hysterically giving it away. Even with the bad hiding spots she giggles! It's cute.

Plus she loves to hide under our comforter in our bed room. She likes to hide from ghosts, monsters, and us. It's funny. We are teaching her to yell at ghosts and monsters to go away when she pretends to be scared. Hoping that later in life, if she ever does believe in ghosts or monsters she will remember to yell at them :)

p.s. your daughter is adorable!

Too cute! Love her little face! We had the same issue with Ellie and though it doesn't make sense, we started putting her to bed earlier (between 6 and 6:30) and poof, she's up between 6:30 & 7 most days. Also, she almost ALWAYS cries out at around 5:30 and then goes right back to sleep after babbling for a few, but we leave her alone now...meaning before I went in thinking she was ready and sometimes she'd be back asleep right as I was opening the door...and then, wide awake. Nice, mom. Anywho, sorry for the unsolicited advice, but just went through this so thought I'd pass along. Sleep is a beautiful thing! (I read this in "Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child" and also "The Baby Whisperer.")

Mine does the same thing but we stopped going to her right away and she goes back to sleep until 6:30-7. We still take turns getting up with her, after she has nursed. I tried putting her to bed later and it didn't make a difference. I'd want to wake up early too, if there was a fort involved!

my son gets up at 530 each day. we make him wait till 6. recnetly we went to atlantic city and stayed in a hotel. he sletp till 630 and I think it was the blackout shades. do they work????

awe - how sweet is she! i totally did that growing up! we would make them outside all the time too!

totally reminds me of Joey and his window neighbor on Friends "Morning's here ...MORNING'S HERE!" ..LOL ...love the gif though ;) and the fort

Forts are one of the best things about childhood. My kids wreck them the instant they are built, though!

I really love the pic! How sweet that she does that - sorry it's so early. It might be a whole ton cuter if it was at, say, 3:30pm. :)

super adorable! love it! poppy also loves playing in/under things - i'm going to build her a play teepee soon! (will post a blog photo-tutorial as i go.)

your babe is seriously so, SO cute. love her!

cheers!

My daughter LOVES to play hide and go seek with us. She makes us count to ten and she counts any where from 3 to 10 depending on her mood lol. She sometimes finds good hiding spots but giggle hysterically giving it away. Even with the bad hiding spots she giggles! It's cute.

Plus she loves to hide under our comforter in our bed room. She likes to hide from ghosts, monsters, and us. It's funny. We are teaching her to yell at ghosts and monsters to go away when she pretends to be scared. Hoping that later in life, if she ever does believe in ghosts or monsters she will remember to yell at them :)

p.s. your daughter is adorable!

Too cute! Love her little face! We had the same issue with Ellie and though it doesn't make sense, we started putting her to bed earlier (between 6 and 6:30) and poof, she's up between 6:30 & 7 most days. Also, she almost ALWAYS cries out at around 5:30 and then goes right back to sleep after babbling for a few, but we leave her alone now...meaning before I went in thinking she was ready and sometimes she'd be back asleep right as I was opening the door...and then, wide awake. Nice, mom. Anywho, sorry for the unsolicited advice, but just went through this so thought I'd pass along. Sleep is a beautiful thing! (I read this in "Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child" and also "The Baby Whisperer.")

I love it!! How cute! How did you do that??

Thanks! It's just an animated gif - same as you would use for a button or banner!

Thanks! It's just an animated gif - same as you would use for a button or banner!