Morning Monkey

Makeshift "track" for the cars

Fred has started a pattern of early waking.  This does not sit well with Mommy, who really needs sleep to be an effective (read: nice, happy, good-mom-type) human during the day.  It's taken a few months, but, Fred has finally gotten the hang of waking and staying in his room without waking the birds.  Seriously, he was doing 4:30AM for a while, before the birds even!

So every once in a while I find him playing in his room for a while when he wakes up, and fortunately for all of us, sometimes I don't hear him right away.  He can turn on his light and get out trains and cars and books, and it keeps him busy for a long time.  This morning was no different.  I didn't hear him 'til after 6:30 this morning, which is like a world record.  I even had the chance to run out and get a coffee before he started to stir!  I felt like I'd slept all day by the time I heard him playing with his cars in his room.

And this is what I found.  My monkey in the morning.

It's wonderful when he doesn't want to get dressed and come down for breakfast so he can keep playing.

Morning Monkey