Sunday, March 30, 2008

Get Up Sleepy Heads!


The early morning silence is broken by an unmistakably load cry pulsating through the air. Kyrie is telling us that she might be inclined to eat her breakfast, it is time to get up. Rebecca stumbles upstairs to prepare nutritional things, while daddy is left with the shrieking lactovore. She wants her food - and she wants it now! The cries accompany her father up the stairway and into the kitchen where her mother awaits with a bottle. Quiet. The kitchen table will now be set for the other siblings to daintily pick at what we serve them, telling us they are full after twenty minutes staring at the eatables. First out of bed is Kobe, greeting us briefly before moving towards the table where the food watching commences. Second is Kian, who bounces seventeen times up and down - smiling all the way to his stool for the ritual. He made it through the night all clean and dry. Karis needed to be woken up. She had fallen out of bed in the middle of the night, hitting her head on the wooden floor when she forgot that she was located in her big girl bed. Karis made sure that little sister was given the proper morning greeting before taking her place at the breakfast table. Then the time soon drew near to get groomed, dressed and ready for church, while Snoopy the dog was left in the kennel to ponder the meaning of life...

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