We have a tradition in our family, that on Christmas morning all the children come into our room when they wake up. They wait there until everyone is awake, and then we all go downstairs together to the front room to see what Santa has brought. Apparently this tradition has stuck because our children, when they wake up in the morning, on any day, come immediately into our room and don't seem to want to go downstairs until everyone is awake and ready to go down for breakfast.
We'll have 5 children rolling around on our bed or our floor, asking us over and over again "Can we go down and have breakfast now?" It doesn't matter how often we tell them "You can go downstairs anytime you want. You don't have to wait for us." They seem to treat it like Christmas, where they can't go downstairs until everyone is ready and Mom and Dad say it's okay.
I have no doubt this is one of those things that when they are older I will miss. Knowing that my children want to see me first thing when they wake up in the morning and that they want to be together. It would be nice if they would occasionally wake up on a morning when I finally get to sleep in, and decide "I think I will go downstairs and play quietly by myself rather than waking Mom and Dad up and staying in their room until everyone is here." I have my doubts about whether this will ever happen, and I guess I'll miss it when it finally does.
When K was a baby she would lay in her bed and yell for me. "I'm awake!" And then I would yell back, "Great, you can get out of bed!" (It was a mattress on the floor) And she would yell back, "I'm awake!" And I would yell, "just come into our room!" T finally would roll over and tell us both to get up and stop yelling at each other. Classic.
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