Babies have that ability to wake even the heaviest of sleepers (like me) but nothing really prepares you for the inevitable, them growing up.
I've always thought that it would a wonderful feeling to one day have my daughter running into our bedroom, jumping on our bed and give you a big huge morning kiss and say "Good morning daddy!"
Wouldn't that be really sweet? I mean, the idea of having your daughter, running over to you and give you a big morning hug would be every dad's dream.
You slowly open your eyes and you see that smile on her angelic face and you start your day how you should, feeling happy.
Well, often things don't really turn out the way them seems.
Yes, my beautiful Maegan has grown big enough to open our bedroom door and yes she runs into our room with zest and excitement. She pushes the little stool by our mirror so that she can climb onto our bed her self and she jumps on her dad and utter the most beautiful words ...
"Wake up daddy! Wake up!"
She tosses and turns and as I slowly open my eyes, I see her treasure filled pampers right in my face feeling the full force of her jumping on me.
She climbs on our latch and grabs hold of my glasses and utters ...
"Daddy, wake up! Daddy, spec-taa-cle!"
Signaling the order given by the young general that her daddy now must awake, wear his spectacles, brush his teeth and change so that the young general could give her final command for that morning ...
"Daddy, outside!".
With that, the young general leads her dutiful dad by his hands and walks straight towards the front door.
All these while her dad still eyes half closes, hair exploding like a tree on wild fire and trying to make sense of what happened to his dream of a beautiful morning with this daughter.
Well, at least I got the hug I dreamed about.
So. Who really needs an alarm clock this days? Not me anymore. I've got little miss Maegan doing just that. She just needs to be tuned slightly to understand that daddy needs to wake up sometime at 3.30am for Champions League football matches and most of the time, prefers to only wake up at 8.30am instead of the 7.00am rude awakening happening most morning.
:o) Keen to buy a second hand alarm clock? I've got Maegan so I'm selling mine.
