Strongest of Us All

The winner is.....

The is girl doesnt need much sleep. I remembered how I gave up trying to make her nap before she turned 3 bcos it was too antagonising. After I stopped nap time, she rarely naps. Even on days that she is exhausted, she will resist until bed time. I am not sure of her reason for resisting naps. Like we always say, she will realise how precious naps are when she's an adult. I am speaking from experience. Haha.

When she started the morning session in P2, she barely clocks 8 hrs every night. It was difficult trying to chase her to bed. Things are a little bit better when Zaky joins her in primary school and bedtime is now before 9pm but she never fails to test her boundary and asks for the extra 5 mins to stay up.

With the start of the school year, she had asked for an alarm clock. On several occasions, she mentioned that she woke up in the night to check the time. A month back, she said that she wanted to use the shower before Daddy Lim and is now the 1st to wake up in the morning at 5.25am. The routine goes: she will wake me up to bun up her hair then she goes to the shower while I flopped back for another precious 10 mins' snooze. Daddy Lim goes for his shower when Lil Shauna is done. I don't take morning showers; it is freaking cold. Zaky is just plain lazy. Haha. On some days, she was already fully dressed and had taken her bfast while we were still struggling to wake up.

I don't know if the alarm clock is creating her anxiety. This morning, the same routine took place. After her shower, she commented that the alarms didn't ring like they usually would. We have so many alarms at different timings bcos we are always very tired people. Lol. I chased Daddy Lim to the shower and stole another few minutes of snooze. Then Lil Shauna came back and said that her watch is spoilt bcos it was showing 4.41am instead of 5.41am. O.O

Of course the watch is working fine; it was really 4ish in the morning and I had to break the news to Daddy Lim, who was already in the showers. Hahaha. He promptly dried himself and went back to bed. The girl was fully dressed and it didn't make much sense to change out or climb into bed in her uniform. I got her comfortable on the sofa instead and accompanied her.

I was drifting in and out of sleep. She said that she didn't sleep and she was dead tired after school today.  Then again, the evenings seem to be able to chase away all traces of exhaustion; she was happily playing with the neighbour kids until 7ish.

We took away her alarm clock tonight. I promised that I would act as her alarm clock and wake her up at 5.25am tomorrow. Sob, my beauty sleep! I better keep my promise and I hope she will have better sleep without having to check time.

On the flip side, Zaky has only awoken easily once and that was on his 1st day of school. Thereafter, he recognised that school is no fun and every single morning is a pain. He is the 1st to go to bed, usually between 8pm to 8.45pm and yet the last to wake up. He is definitely his mother's son bcos just like me, he will squeeze in the last minutes to snooze. Lol. Until today, we have to literally pull him off the bed every morning bcos he is always "so tired" every morning regardless of what time he goes to bed. Lol.

Mummy Lim