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Circadian Rhythms

It’s obvious on this sleep graph where school started this August.

There’s a definite transition from the summer schedule of 6:50am weekday wake-up to the new school-year schedule of 6am wake-up (or thereabouts). That squiggly part in between was the week before school started, where there was no summer camp, so I took the week off to hang out and have some fun with Connor. Ah, that one glorious day when we slept past 8:30!

I find myself waking up at 6:30am on weekends now. I don’t get up and stay up, but I do wake up to go pee. Then I crawl back in bed and get another sleep cycle in before Connor comes to the door at 8:00 sharp and stage-whispers, “Good morning, Mommy!”

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Christmas Preparation Festivities

Christmas Preparations

We hauled the Christmas decorations down out of the attic this Saturday: pre-lit artificial tree, giant box of ornaments and other holiday accoutrements (including the baby Santa hat that Connor still manages to fit on his noggin every year), giant box containing the Very Breakable lighted ceramic tree with music box, and the toy train that Grandpa Jim got Connor a couple years back.

This year, Connor decided to put the stickers on all the signs, then plunk them around the perimeter of the tree skirt. Mei was clearly unfazed.

Christmas Preparations

After the halls were bedecked, Connor decided it was time to write out his Christmas list. Most of his wish list items came from the Mindware catalog that showed up in our mailbox, and a great many items made it onto his Amazon Wish List.

Christmas Preparations

Connor’s already asking when we can go back to Children’s Wonderland to see Santa. Last year was the first time we took him to see Santa, and it clearly made an impression. I still haven’t been able to make myself use Santa as a behavioral prompt — Santa’s watching you!

It’s still early — not even December yet — but the holiday season is off to a good start.