Wednesday, October 13, 2010

I am NOT a Morning Person

I am not a morning person. I am a night owl and often stay up until the wee hours of morning. Good thing too, because that's the only time I can get in uninterrupted writing time. Unfortunately, my children do no understand that Mommy needs her beauty sleep. Or any kind of sleep. Especially uninterrupted sleep.

Ryan is a morning person. He wakes up at the crack of dawn, wide eyed and bushy tailed. (For the love of God! The cliche's!) Ryan has always been a quiet child, except for when he's bossing people around. Nothing like rule breakers to crack a kid out of his shell.

In the last month or so, Ryan has blossomed. He's still shy with people he doesn't know, but lately he's become chatty with the law abiding inhabitants, too. Ryan has also discovered singing. Maybe he's seen too much Glee , or maybe Mommy's impromptu singing and dance numbers have finally had an effect, but the boy loves to sing.

This morning, I was Tired. (Yes, with a capital T.) Who comes bouncing down the stairs at 7:10? (I was up at 6:45 after staying up until 1:30 watching miners jump out of capsules.) Ryan. Shouting. And singing. What could be better that shouting and singing at 8:00 a.m.? Bossing your little sister around. That's right You Get the Best of Both Worlds.*

* I have sunk to new lows, invoking a Hannah Montana song title when she's not even part of the blog.

There's not enough coffee to handle this in the morning.

5 comments:

Mei Mei s and Mayhem said...

YOur lucky, Ava is up about 5:50 every morning!!!!! My earliest kid yet and it does not matter what time she goes to bed at night!! Grrrrrrrrrr

Cute singing! :-)

Eisley Jacobs said...

ROTFL... I love that Ryan!

Brandy said...

He even sang his command "Emmas not sitting doooown..." LOL!! I can laugh because it's not happening at my house. LMAO!

Carey said...

What a great idea, to video tape mornings! Haha. Maybe that would put them in perspective for me. =) A couple days ago, Summer had a screaming fit shortly after waking up and the dog had diarrhea--in the house. Lovely way to start the day.

Unknown said...

Love how he turned around and stood up too. Rules are different when you're the big brother! :)