Blake has been getting up way too early and then coming in and waking us up. I researched these "stay asleep" clocks on the internet and decided on one with a monkey. You can set him to go to sleep with the child and not wake up until a designated time. You tell your child they can't be up until the monkey wakes up. We have named the monkey "mo mo."
Mo mo arrived in the mail and I was really hyping him up and thought Blake was on board with the idea of not getting up until mo mo's eyes are open (that's when the child knows that it's OK to get up. I set him to wake up at 7:30, which seems reasonable, right? Wrong.
The next morning, Blake comes barging into our room at like 6:45 saying, "there's something wrong with Mo mo. He won't wake up!" Sheldon explained to him that he won't wake up until a little later and that Blake needs to go back to bed and wait for Mo mo. Didn't work. Blake said, "no, I'm awake and Momo needs to be up too because I'm ready for him to be up."
We tried this again the following night...put Momo to bed, closed his eyes, told Blake he can't be awake until Momo wakes up. blah blah.
Next morning.....6:45. "Mommy, Momo won't wake up. It's morning and he's still asleep. Make him wake up."
So the way I see it, he is too smart for this clock. Ain't nobody, including a monkey, gonna tell him when it's time to get up.
Oh, and the thing was like $35. Yeah, $35 for a monkey clock! But now I can't return it (even though the point is lost on my child and I wouldn't really ever spend $35 on a clock for him anyway) because they're "friends."
More Blake-isms for you:
Blake-"Hey smelly, it's time to get up."
Me- "Are you calling me smelly?"
Blake- "No, I'm calling Dad smelly. Smelly, it's time to get up!"
Blake (to grandma) "we saw Desperaux. It was really depressing."
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