- Story: A Rude Awakening

ROFLOLPIMP......That was tooo funny. I needed a giggle tonight. Don't even care how
much it hurt to laugh...hehe. Kids are great. Remind me to tell you my "Blue's
Clues" story sometime.
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"Kathy N-V" wrote in message
.com...
Like most new parents, we had a baby monitor in DD's bedroom when she was
born. It remained in her bedroom until she was about four years old, because
we live in an old, old house with horsehair plaster and thick walls, and we
wouldn't have heard DD call out to us if she needed us.

It didn't take DD very long to realize that if she shouted into her end of
the baby monitor, a parent would appear to do her bidding. By the age of
two, Saturday and Sunday mornings began way too early, and always with the
squawking monitor calling "Mama...Daddeeeee...I'm 'wake...It's morning...I
see da sun...Mama...Dadeeee...come gets me! Now"

This would repeat endlessly until Bob and I had done "Rock-Paper-Scissors,"
with the loser having to get up at 5 a.m. to entertain the wee one, while the
other got a couple of hours more sleep. To be fair, the loser got to sleep
in the next morning.

One Saturday morning, I lost the challenge, and had to get up with the little
monster. I made her breakfast (Fried chicken - the kid wanted fried chicken
for breakfast seven days a week, and not leftovers), turned on the television
to some mindless drivel that DD loved, and laid down on the sofa. I was
watching DD in front of me, and the screen on the TV was all covered with
dancing felt figures, and they started to meld together.....zzzzz

AAAAAGH! What the heck was that?! I removed two small fingers from my
nostrils.

DD stood with her hands on her hips, clearly annoyed. "Mama, you were
sleeping, and your snoring was louder than the TV. I plugged up your nose so
you couldn't snore"

She had pretty much guaranteed that snoring wasn't going to happen ever
again. I was shocked out of sleeping while in DD's presence for years!

Kathy N-V