But sometimes she wakes well before the 7:00 clock-turning-green time (you can set it to turn green at any time....I've just chosen 7:00 as the time I'll allow her to get up). This morning my husband's alarm went off (very loudly) at 6:00 and he fumbled with it for quite awhile until he was able to get it turned off. Rachel heard it from her room next to ours and within seconds she was calling me, which she usually doesn't do, so I was surprised to hear her. I went in and she asked me to cover her up because she couldn't reach the covers. She told me she was having good dreams and was going back to sleep. Sounded good to me!
She settled back down, I got back in bed, and my poor husband started getting ready for his day.
However, Rachel didn't go back to sleep. She was quiet, which was great, but she was coughing every 30 seconds or so, which is how I knew she was awake (she's been fighting a cold for a little over a week).
So at 6:47, she apparently had had quite enough of lying in bed, coughing, and waiting for her clock to turn green (47 minutes must seem like an eternity to a three year old, when it's spent lying in bed, waiting!). My husband and I both burst out laughing when we heard her call out, at 6:48, "C'mon, clock!" in complete exasperation.
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That's hilarious. It's funny, we've been doing the clock thing for awhile now, in the morning and at nap/quiet time, and just in the past couple of days Katy has started really testing it - getting out and coming to tell us that she's tired of waiting, and when we tell her she has to go back she starts screaming and throwing a fit and wakes David up. She got in big trouble this morning for this very thing, it was not a pleasant way to start the morning. I'm hoping it's a testing battle that will end shortly. Nap is harder than mornings, because many days she isn't falling asleep at all, so she's spending a long time bored in her room (she's allowed to play, but still gets bored). So we're trying to decide what we should try differently.
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