5 strategies to wake a sleepy mum

It happen like this: Egg Egg wakes up at around 6:30-7:30, rain or shine. Now that's bloody early for any mum who's a night owl. So I figured that the win-win situation is to feed him and happily drift back into semi-consciousness on the mattress next to him playing. For how long? That'd depend on whether he manage to wake me up at all!

Strategy #1: Crying. In the early days, Egg Egg only need to cry a bit, and then I'd rouse in a panic to see what the fuss is all about. That used to give me only 5 minute shots of naps, wherein I'd be drifting in and out of noises, bad dreams, and exhaustion. Now that he's older, I had trained my ears to block out those regular whinging noises. That gets him to...

Strategy #2: Crawling. Over my dead body, literally. Bet you will wake up too if a 9kg piece of rock started rolling on your chest. That works wonderfully for him initially, and mummy wakes up to play with him. Then I realised that if I sleep on my tummy, all that crawling over my back would actually feels quite good, like a Thai massage. So I'm back to the sleeping mode. Which gets him to the next stage...

Strategy #3: Pooing. Egg Egg figured out that by making a stinking poo, I'd have to get up and change him. Aha! He's wrong. Mummy eventually realised that Huggies nappies are so good that the poo doesn't leak no matter what. (Except for the incident of "Curse of the Golden Flower", see previous blog) Hurray! That gives me another 30 minute of nap before Egg Egg would crawl all over my face to remind me of the horrible smell.

Strategy #4: Hair pulling. Egg Egg's found out that one of the uses of his fingers is to pull mummy's hair, and that would solicit an instant response! (Often its a growl, "go back to play and stop bothering me!") I've tried pulling a cap over my hair, and pulling the blankets over my head. That's fine in winter, but now in summer that doesn't work. Aha! I've started pinching his little hand whenever he pulls my hair, hehe... An eye for an eye!! Pain begets pain!! Egg Egg had stopped pulling my hair ever since last week, and has evolved to the next stage of...

Strategy #5: Head butting. Egg Egg'd come to me after an hour of play, wanting to get some breakfast. He'd crawl real close, and head butt me over and over again. Now, that's a new strategy that I haven't figured out the counter-strike yet. Any ideas?