I haven’t done a post on Hannah’s morning routine for more than 2 years now, so here’s an updated post on it and our reactions as parents! Hannah has settled in nicely with her nanny and also at pre-nursery at her kindergarten. Our wake-up times though still remain – to a degree – dependent on her kindergarten bus pick-up timings, and whenever the pick-up circuit changes, so changes our morning routine for her too.
As I’m usually up at least 30 minutes before Ling, I get the honors of waking Hannah up – usually around 6:35 AM – as Ling is still getting ready. Interestingly, Hannah used to be able to wake up easily whenever the lights to her room get switched on. This couple of months, it’s turned into an iffy thing. Occasionally she’ll get up quite briskly and mumble a “Good morning Daddy” reply when I call out the same to her. Other times, she’ll refuse to get up and grumble “I’m soooooo tired!”. Mind you though she’s still mostly sleeping at the same time each evening at around 8:45 to 9:00 PM. But when she shows such reluctance, I’ll usually just gentle prod her upright and carry her out of her cot, alongside the two toys she gets to bring to bed each night.
Hannah gets carried to the Master bedroom toilet, since her toilet seat and reaching stool is situated there. Her morning ‘business’ is quick, after which she goes over to the guestroom toilet with Ling to brush her teeth. We’re still teaching her to brush her own teeth, though because things are quite rushed in the morning, we only really can afford the luxury of having her slowly do it herself in her night routine.
When that’s done, it’s to the living room where daddy gets to dress her and comb her hair, while Ling warms up her morning milk. This is usually a good time for daddy-daughter bonding, and often a follow-up with any incident that happened the last night (e.g. she was in a tantrum), or a reminder of things that will happen in the evening (e.g. “Last night we played sticker book; tonight daddy will read to you OK?”). She has her morning milk when she’s dressed. If we’re going to be late, it’s usually going to be because of this. Depending on Hannah’s morning mood, she can still take a lot of time to finish her morning milk and often exasperating Ling quite a bit! Thankfully though she can drink her milk unsupervised without spillage so that Ling can simultaneously wrap up in the kitchen. Hannah’s morning beverage is topped off with half a cup of water, after which her hair is tidied by Ling.
We’ve got this morning routine pretty much nailed down, though I think a couple of improvements can be made now that I’ve articulated it in this post! The routine does give us a bit of buffer time to get to her nanny’s (she gets dressed into her school uniform there) and for the bus pick-up at 7:25 AM there.
The weekend routine is entirely different. Hannah’s the best alarm clock I can ask for (she’ll yell “Mommy… WAKE UP!!!!!”) LOL. More on that in some other post next time.=)
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