The Oler Family: Motherly Advice?

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Motherly Advice?

How early is too early? Lately the kids have been getting up anywhere between 7 and 8. And without fail the first words out of their mouths are "I need food". Now 7 is really hard for me because I usually spend most of the night switching from side to side and resituating or getting up to go pee 5 times, etc(such is life of a 31 weeks pregnant lady). Neil has been so awesome about handling these certain mornings for me. So this morning at 6:45 Adia makes her way into our room with her usual request, Neil sends her straight back to bed because there is no way that we are going to start giving them breakfast before 7 in the blessed A.M. Surprisingly, she fell back to sleep. Now that got me thinking "could I get away with sending them back to bed even after 7?". So here is my question: How early is too early, and should I just be happy when they sleep past 7 or try to demand it(yes I realize demanding anything like this from 2 year olds is a very tall order and probably crazy)?

2 comments:

ShEiLa said...: I would make up some easy early am snacks... like dry cereal or string cheese and let that tide them over. Let your day start rolling when you are ready to roll.
Save your sanity.

I didn't realize you were expecting... congrats! and I vote for you to get some rest.

ToOdLeS.; January 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM
The Powells said...: I won't let Tyson get up before 7am. If your girls know their #'s or at least what the # 7 looks like, get them a digital clock for their room and tape paper over the "minutes" side, so that only the hour shows. Tell them that they're not allowed out of their beds until they see a 7 on the clock. I can't remember how early we started Tyson doing this, but it WORKS. Perhaps 2 is still too young... I can't remember! Good luck though, I refuse to get up before 7am too. Congrats too on #3, it's going to be fun!; January 26, 2011 at 11:35 PM

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The Story

We found out we were expecting our first mid-March 2008, our little bundle of joy would arrive sometime early November. June rolled around, we went to find out if it was a boy or a girl. Much to our excitement, it was a girl, much to our surprise, she had a sister in there too. We were so excited, and shocked at the same time. And because there were 2 the doctor moved my due date up to early October. Mid-September comes up and I'm sent to the hospital, I'm in labor. Evelyn Mae and Adia Ashley were born the morning of September 23rd.

The Story Take III

We found out we were expecting #4 in early June, not quite ready to share the news we kept our excitement to ourselves for a while. We told the kids but were fairly certain they had forgotten when Neil's whole family came, visited, and left without a word about our bun in the oven. A couple of weeks later, we had some family over for a 4th of July BBQ. Evelyn was admiring Chavonne's 5 month old Emmett and decided to announce "Angelica has a baby in her belly!" Everybody was excited and I was very surprised since I had decided my kids had forgotten. I moving into the 2nd trimester now, and looking forward to finding out the gender of our sweet little love bun.

Ghost In A Jar

Neil sings and plays guitar in a band called Ghost In A Jar. With his friends Tom at the drums, and Peter playing the bass, they started playing together in April of 2006. They've played at a lot of different places including Starry Night, Muse, and The Loft at Ozz in Provo, Comedy Circuit in Midvale, and at various other places and events. Its been fun to listen to them progress and work on writing their songs and having such a great time together. Sadly in April of 2011 they went their separate ways.