Wakey wakey!
2026-Jun-01, Monday 09:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I mentioned in our recent Laila update that we were trying to teach her to stay in her room in the morning for a bit until an alarm went off, so that she wouldn't come waking us up at 5:30 a.m. The very first day she heard the alarm of Jake from Yoto saying "Wakey wakey! Rise and shine!" we heard her get really quiet in her room and she kept bringing it up during the day. The next few days it was rough, and we ended up having to turn off the alarm because she wasn't in her room at the time when it went off. She was pretty sad about that, but we told her, you have to be in your room at the right time if you want to hear Jake say "Wakey wakey!"
Well, after those first few days of difficulty she took to it without any problems and hasn't been coming in to get us before 6:15 a.m. (the time we set the alarm for--we're planning to gradually creep it forward to 6:30 a.m. and leave it there). It worked so well in fact that today I woke up naturally, went to check my watch, and was surprised to see it was 6:57 a.m.! I immediately got up and ran into Laila's room to see if anything had happened to her but as soon as I opened the door I saw her lying in bed, wrapped in blankets, awake, and she said to me, "Jake said wakey wakey!"
Well, the bus comes at 7:25 a.m. so we had to hurry her out of bed and through her morning routine quickly and get her on the bus, which we did. And I'm feeling well rested thanks to an extra 45 minutes of sleep. But this does mean I can't rely on Laila to be our alarm anymore and will have to start setting my own regardless.
Hoisted by our own petard.
Well, after those first few days of difficulty she took to it without any problems and hasn't been coming in to get us before 6:15 a.m. (the time we set the alarm for--we're planning to gradually creep it forward to 6:30 a.m. and leave it there). It worked so well in fact that today I woke up naturally, went to check my watch, and was surprised to see it was 6:57 a.m.! I immediately got up and ran into Laila's room to see if anything had happened to her but as soon as I opened the door I saw her lying in bed, wrapped in blankets, awake, and she said to me, "Jake said wakey wakey!"
Well, the bus comes at 7:25 a.m. so we had to hurry her out of bed and through her morning routine quickly and get her on the bus, which we did. And I'm feeling well rested thanks to an extra 45 minutes of sleep. But this does mean I can't rely on Laila to be our alarm anymore and will have to start setting my own regardless.
Hoisted by our own petard.
