Looks can be deceiving

If you looked around my house this morning around 9:30 a.m., you would have seen two kids in pajamas and three kids in clothes. The kids in pajamas were in no rush to get dressed and only did so when I told them "it was time" because we needed to run a quick errand to church.

Your assumption may be that the two pajama clad children (a 5 year old girl and 2 year old boy) were the last lazy ones to get up, and the other two were the early birds who had gotten past the "just woke up phase".

*If you are good at math, you would know that 2+2=4, and I mentioned five kids above. The "extra" kid was my day baby who is back for a couple of days this week. He came dressed and was probably up earlier than any of my kids, so he doesn't really count in this scenario.

Anyway, if you were to make such assumptions you would be quite wrong. Cole (the two year old boy) wakes up the earliest every morning, and he is generally the last to be interested in getting dressed. Alexa (the five year old girl) also tends to get up early, and -although she loves to wear cute clothes- is more than content to lounge around and play in her pajamas until she must get dressed. Robbie (7) and Rachel (2) would prefer to sleep longer, but as soon as they are up, they are ready to get dressed.


As a side note, while I have noticed definite differences between boys and girls that I do think are due to nature (you know in the whole nature vs. nurture debate), I feel like Robbie/Rachel and Alexa/Cole have more similar personalities than do 'the boys' and 'the girls'. This is one example of how those personalities come to light each day.

As a second side note, I am not really look forward to next week being 'back to school' and everyone having to get dressed each morning in a timely manner. Just one of the reasons I wish summer vacation could continue!