Axel's an early riser. He does not seem to be a morning person, though. He rises at 6:30 and promptly starts screaming.
I'm not sure why he starts yelling. Is he shocked that the sun's rising earlier and earlier each day? Angry that he can't see the moon through his window? Upset that morning means he's going to have to take off his adorable sock monkey pajamas? Bummed that he's in his crib, with nothing but Good Dog, Carl, a book he's read so often that he could reproduce the pictures in Crayolas if his hand-eye coordination would catch up with his memory, and a stuffed lion that has the same damn straight-mouthed expression on his face every day?
This yelling occurs if he's pooped his pants or if he's saving his poop until sixty seconds before we're ready to rush out the door. He could be hungry when he wakes up, but the yelling doesn't seem to correlate with a half a multigrain waffle or a four waffle breakfast. It happens if he's up at 5:45 or if it's one of those rare days when the gods willed him to snooze until 7:00 am.
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