Our 9 year old has entered a new phase of sleeping in. She still goes to sleep by 8:30pm, 9:15pm the latest, but her sleeping in the morning after is getting later and later. It's quite crazy. While we all enjoy the peace and quiet of having her asleep, we are in awe just how late she will sleep till.
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| Yes, you can even go in to her room and take a picture and she'll sleep right through it! |
This past Monday on Labor Day we had plans to take Lucy and go down to the Mall to walk around in the morning for a few hours. Be back home in time for lunch. If there is some place we don't have to be, we try to let the kids sleep as long as they'd like. Rule #1, never wake a sleeping baby still applies to us even though the kids are 9 and 12. However, by 11:45am, it was getting a bit ridiculous that Sam was still sleeping. It had been over 14 hours since she went to bed! Jeff finally went in and woke her up. After all, she was going to need to go back to sleep in about 9 hours.
Back in the day we were all early risers and got up as the sun rose. We'd be up, dressed and having eaten breakfast and it would only be 6:30am. I'm not kidding. This went on for years and years. Now, Jeff and I still wake very early, Ian gets up around 7:30am and Samantha doesn't stir until about half the day is over. It's very weird. She is epitome of why "brunch" was invented. Her breakfast has turned into lunch.
We've decided there are going to be some mornings when we still need to get things done but its not necessary to wake up Sam. We will leave a note for her letting her know where we went, but most likely she won't even be up by the time we get back. Sam is getting a jump start on her teen years early. It's a whole new world for our sleeping beauty and we are still adjusting.
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