Wake Up!

I almost never have to wake the kids up -- Merrill and Teddy are generally awake between 5:30 and 6:00 (I consider 6:00 sleeping in for them....) and Millie is usually up by 6:30 but will occasionally sleep until 7:00.  Seven is about the latest I'll let them sleep on a school day to ensure that everyone is ready and out the door on time.  This morning one was of the rare mornings when Millie still wasn't up at 7:00.  This would have been perfect if we had a snow day like a lot of the districts around us, but, we did not.  I recruited Teddy to help me wake her up at 7:00 -- this was his idea of help:

I don't know that getting in bed and snuggling with her gave her a lot of motivation to get up -- me repeatedly telling her it was time to get ready for school?  That might have been a little more annoying than her baby brother :)