Night #3 was...a slight improvement. Fruit Loop still woke up, but only once. The improvement lies in the fact that he only called me in there 1x before falling asleep. (I feel like I have typed hat before. However, for reasons that will soon become clear, I am too lazy/tired/fill-in-the-blank to go back and check older posts. (But: weeeeird. Have I told you this already? How could I have done that? Before it even happened?)

ANYway. So that is all okay. Baby steps, (although, frankly, I'm looking for some more entirely un-age-appropriate 4-year-old steps. Nobody does high expectations and unreasonable demands like me!) The Despot, however. HOWEVER. Has decided to wake up progressively earlier. We are right around 5a now. Ooof.

I've been giving him the benefit of doubt, chalking his early rising up to The Sleeping Situation, but I think I need to put my foot down. (Or go to bed earlier.) (I have also been loathe to risk The Despot's crying waking Fruit Loop. 'Nuff said on that.) S.O.P. around here is no getting up/out of bed before 6a. I've been cutting him some slack, but w/ worsening of the early rising, I believe it is time to implement Plan: Momma's Gonna Leave You There 'Til She's Done Good and Ready to Come Git You.

Small aside: Dudes, how exciting is this? This is real, edge-of-your-seats, nailbiting drama here! Will they sleep? Won't they? Will they wake up once? Or twice? And who will wake up first? Will The Despot keep getting up early? Will Fruit Loop earn his morning of unlimited TV gluttony? And who shot J.R.??*


*Full disclosure: That was before my time.

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