This time of day is our zero hour. Its our “get everyone out of the house and into the van to go get Dekker” hour. Sometimes its more dramatic than others. Sometimes I’m slightly more on the ball and start a little earlier, just so no one has to rush. Today, the house was silent at this point. Silent. So I waited as long as I could, but finally, I went into the kids rooms to get them up from their naps.
They were ALL fast asleep!
Yes, Solly had opened his eyes in this picture, but when I knelt down to get in his field of vision, he was still faaar off in la la land, deep breathing as though he was fast asleep. Moments after I took this picture, his eyes rolled back and he fell entirely back to sleep.
Sigh.
This almost NEVER happens that I have to wake ALL THREE from a dead sleep, especially after a solid 2-2.5 hour nap! I had even had some company over during nap time, and I assumed that our visiting would’ve at least lulled them awake a little. But nope! Three sleepy little kids were cashed right out.
I started at the top, age wise, and tried to gently lull them awake. It took WORK today. They were all still SO out to lunch. Laela finally woke, and I told her she could take a minute before getting up. Ro was just as asleep, but was up out of bed before Laela was. Solly, on the other hand, lulled quicker, but did not want to stand up. My back is still in rough shape from the weekend, and it hurts quite a bit to pull him in and out of the crib. I tried to urge him to stand up, to which he’d respond with grunts and shrieks when he started getting annoyed with me. I finally got down to his eye level and whispered “We need to go get Dekker.” He giggled like a crazy person and got up instantly.
Sweaty little beast <3
The good attitudes have rolled on, and I’m SO thankful! While it sucks waking them up like that, napping any later than they did would result in a much tougher bedtime. So it was necessary, just kind of a bummer to wake sleeping babes.
But we lived! Can they always nap that well?