To give the non-Murphys a little background... My dad would regularly sleep though alarms for an hour or more. Chris (my brother) was the same, and in high school he wired in a extra loud speaker into his alarm clock so he could get up. Michael (also my brother) would throw whatever was on hand at us when we tried to wake him up. Suzie (my sister) seems to wake up just fine. Being the little brother, I was always the first one up. I would sit on top of Suzie at 6am and pry her eyelids open while asking "Hey SUZ! Are you awake?" Its fun being the little brother.
Nowadays though, I have to set my alarm a full half hour early because I will regulary reset it for a half hour later while I am still asleep (and have no memory of doing it).
This is what happened Saturday.
6:15 - Connor wakes up later than usual. Linda gives him his first breakfast. Linda checks her email. I stay in bed. Connor plays around the house and watches some TV.
7:00 - Ian's alarm clock goes off. We forgot to turn it off from Friday but that doesn't matter because Ian sleeps right through it. I hear it, get out of bed and in a daze manage to press a button that stops the horrible ringing. I go back to bed.
7:30 am - The alarm clock goes off again. Apparently it has a second alarm and I had only turned off the first one. It was ringing for a full two minutes. I decide to get my camera to record the moment. I debate on getting the same alarm for myself so I can get up on weekdays.Tommy - "Ian, are you awake?"
Ian - .....
I reset the alarm for 8:30. Normally we let the boys sleep as long as they want to on the weekends. For Connor that is not as long as we would like. We had someone coming over at 9:30 and Ian and I were going to Karate class at 10:00 so we had to get him up.
7:30-8:30 Connor plays around the house and generally makes a lot of noise. Linda and I chat about what we are going to do that day. I have breakfast.
8:26 - Connor decides that Ian has slept long enough and goes to do his little brother best to wake up Ian.
Connor - "IAN!"
Ian - ......
Connor whaps Ian on the back repeatedly to wake him up.
Connor - "IAANNN!"
Ian - ......
Connor goes for the climb on top method. He does this to us too sometimes. I wonder if Connor will ever try the prying eyelids method. At this point Ian is awake but pretending to be asleep. He is trying really hard not to laugh.
Connor gets his second breakfast. Apparently this is why he wanted to wake up Ian.
8:50 - Ian is fully awake and super happy! Thankfully he has a little brother alarm clock!
7 comments:
What Tom fails to mention (or maybe he will find this out right now) is that HE will the one getting up at 5:45 or 6:15am next weekend. Hee, hee.
Tom is totally right-Ian is exhibiting the Murphy-sleep-late trait.
And if Connor is going to daycare-he will probably get a third breakfast. The boy is a bottomless pit. I am wondering if some of his savings account will need to go to groceries when he is a teenager. Good grief!
Pup-you wrote a great second blog and it is great to read things from your perspective.
The ability to sleep through just about anything is something my son-in-law here excels at too! Some mornings when I am awake early, I will hear his alarm clock going off upstairs -often as early as 6 a.m. -and it will keep going off until someone shuts it off which with the SIL, could mean for several hours. We joke that he could probably sleep through an earthquake of an 8.5 on the Richter scale and never hear a single thing, never wake up!
my son was the same way about sleeping. he would sleep through the alarm right next to his head while it woke me up on the other side of the house
I love all the photos! my favorite is Ian trying not to laugh and Connor worshipping his breakfast - he looks absolutely joyful!
so happy you started blogging
great pictorial of the morning-very cute:)
Good thing you never tried to pull open Michael's or Chris's eyes- or you might not be here to be rambling:) (yes us younger siblings know our bounds)
Love it! That is hilarious and I like the pictorial progression. I had a little brother alarm clock and it work out okay for me!! I think you give me too much credit in the wake-up department though.... it ain't pretty over at my house! That Murphy gene got all four of us.
Such great pictures of the boys.
I'll never understand how people can sleep through an alarm, but it seems a lot do it.
I enjoyed your post very much.
What a great post. It reminded me (little sister) of the dreaded and thankless task of waking my sister up. This was when we were all considerably older and had to catch trains for work. My sister had the upstairs room in the house. After my mother had yelled absurd lies about the time up the stairs repeatedly to no avail, I would be sent up to "wake her up."
"Carole," I would say. "It's late. You have to get up." "I'm up" she would reply groggily, clearly neither up nor intending to get up." Pleading didn't work and I was usually forced to make the trip up and down the stairs at least two or three times a morning. She didn't always catch her train. I got lots of exercise and even then, like much of what went in with my family, the absurdity of our routines struck me as funny. Anyway, didn't mean to ramble on. I enjoyed your pictures and your morning tale. Have you ever tried asking your mind to wake you up at a certain hour? Sometimes that actually works for me.
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