Alarm Clock

I went back to school this week so the whole family is again on the work routine. We have been having trouble getting Ian up in the mornings. He is following the true Murphy tradition of sluggishness so Linda bought him an alarm clock. He slept through it on Friday and I wound up late for a meeting (I can't really blame him for that tough).

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.

8:35 - Ian trudges out to breakfast. Connor follows


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!