This is Jude at 7:10 am...
At this point, I have been up for about 15 minutes. I have turned on his light and attempted to rouse him. Here's a wide shot...
Please note that the child's bed did NOT look like this when he went to sleep. It was neatly made when he got in. I cannot imagine what he does during the night to turn it complete inside out like this. It looks like this EVERY morning.
This is Jude at 7:20 am...
You'll notice that I have now thrown his school uniform on top of him in an attempt to get him out of the damned bed.
Here is Jude at 7:30 am...
At last, he has changed positions. Unfortunately, it was brought about by curiosity about why the hell his mother is taking pictures of him at 7:30 in the morning. I am now raising my voice in a fairly unattractive and slightly shrewish way, telling him to get out of the bed and eat his breakfast.
I fear that this does not bode well for his teenage years.
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This post was inspired by...
Prompt #1 - Is your child a morning person? Share a story, picture or list of reasons that supports your opinion.
My kids are so not morning persons too.. takes me an extremely long tie to get them up each morning.
Posted by: [email protected]'s Desk | 05/31/2012 at 01:30 AM
I laughed at your photos of him...does make you wonder how they can get so tangled up! I had several of these children AND a husband like that...mornings didn't get much better as the boys got older either! You are going to have to get very creative!
Posted by: Linda | 05/31/2012 at 02:48 AM
I feel for him, I really do... I also feel for you... it looks like the battle will continue to be waged for many, many years... although, my mom solved the same problem with a bucketful of cold water, sure she had to change the sheets and take the mattress outside to dry but she never had to wake me up again. Just a thought!
Posted by: BonnyBard | 05/31/2012 at 03:19 AM
Add more girly stuff to the room and more hair to the head and I would swear you were in Sprite's room this morning. :-)
Posted by: Sprite's Keeper | 05/31/2012 at 06:03 AM
Ha, I feel for him too...hopefully summer comes quickly, and he gets to sleep in!
Posted by: Alaina | 05/31/2012 at 06:04 AM
I am not showing this to JR. He will want to take pictures of me while he rousts me out of bed. My excuse...it is 4:50am when he gets me up.
Posted by: Michele | 05/31/2012 at 06:27 AM
I'm not sure what my boys do to the sheet and blankets either, but they always end up under the comforter by morning too. It must be a boy thing.
My spin is up:
http://tttandme.blogspot.com/2012/05/spin-cycle-love-love-love-it.html
Posted by: VandyJ | 05/31/2012 at 06:51 AM
Be glad there are sheets and blankets on his bed at all - that's one of those things that becomes up for grabs when they're teenagers. You won't be able to do anything about it - trust me, you won't even want to LOOK in his room when he's a teen, much less enter it.
Posted by: Jan's Sushi Bar | 05/31/2012 at 07:05 AM
My 7 year old is a beast in the mornings. I have to promise myself I won't yell at him every morning because he is so, so hard to deal with before school!
Posted by: dumb mom | 05/31/2012 at 07:18 AM
It's funny. This is my oldest entirely. My middle girl jumps up smiling (although she is the cover kicker). I'm curious to see how the boy turns out. Right now he seems easy, but he's 2, he knows not of what school day mornings mean. (I must also admit that I am like Jude and my oldest. I don't want to get up either).
Posted by: Arnebya | 05/31/2012 at 07:34 AM
I couldn't wait until my kids wanted to sleep in and when it happened I couldn't sleep in anymore (body clock, I guess!)... My kids tore their bed covers up like that, too!
Here's my Spin http://suzicate.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/in-love-with-life/
Posted by: suzicate | 05/31/2012 at 08:16 AM
There MUST be a happy medium between this and Kalen's rising with the sun. In Seattle. In the summer. Which, of course, means 5am (or earlier).
Posted by: Aimee | 05/31/2012 at 08:50 AM
It's funny how we try to get them to sleep in during the infant/toddler years and then spend the rest of their child and teen hood trying to get them OUT of bed!
Posted by: CJ | 05/31/2012 at 08:52 AM
Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanies any attempt to roust them from their nests. Noelle is usually in one place though this morning we went in to find that she was using Unicornio (her pillow pet) as an actual pillow...and her regular pillow as a blanket. Kids. They're so weird.
Posted by: Dawn | 05/31/2012 at 11:12 AM
Too funny!
Great spin on this prompt!
Nicki G. The Blissful Wife
www.blissfulvida.com
Posted by: Nicki G. The Blissful Wife | 05/31/2012 at 02:03 PM
I found out that my youngest will have memories of hearing me wake him up with "slurp" "slurp". I make coffee and and sit next to him, slurping and looking at iphone. He is a robe guy so he then gets up and slips into robe. Then he picks out cereal from the 10 boxes on hand. But now it is summer so he sleeps in.
So maybe get your coffee ready and just slurp loudly till it annoys him.
Posted by: Michele R. | 05/31/2012 at 05:31 PM
During the summer, I am exactly like your son. I do not want to wake up and get out of bed. Sometimes I wish I had this problem with my own kiddies, especially on weekends when I would like to sleep in. But they're always awake before 7. :P
Posted by: Leslie Writes It All | 06/01/2012 at 08:58 PM
Boo Boo has been like that since age three - and her bed also looks like that. I don't even make it anymore unless I am changing sheets or expecting company.
Posted by: mommylisa | 06/04/2012 at 08:25 AM