4am - any advance?

TimmyO

Our youngest (nearly 8) was in at 4am this morning pestering to open presents. Managed to hold him off until 6. 

Anyone else woken at ridiculous o'clock? 

octatonic

Nope.
Just woke up.

stickyfiddle

No kids and even the cats slept in today. Brilliant

RandallFlagg

This is the first year I was awake first, youngest kids are now 13 & 15 and less excitable and I woke them flushing the loo so we were up at 7:30.

the 4am starts of previous years really bollix me up for the rest of the day, especially after a boozy Christmas Eve.

maidenfan

Mine were up before 7, heard Mrs Maiden getting ready for work (A&E Psych. Nurse)

tone1

My 6 year old isn't up yet 

richardhomer

14 year old is still soundly asleep - and is guaranteed to remain so, until I wake him....

RandallFlagg

maidenfan said:

Mine were up before 7, heard Mrs Maiden getting ready for work (A&E Psych. Nurse)

I might see her later after spendng the day at my parents!

Emp_Fab

If I had kids, the rule would be that presents are opened at 9am.  Any attempt to circumvent this rule would result in the destruction of the presents in front of them followed by a beating.

4am ??  I'd have locked the little sod outside.

I think I'd have made a good father.

eSully

3 year old still asleep thankfully. Probably thanks to her 2am tantrum. Little fella is crawling around the living room oblivious to Christmas. Enjoying my morning coffee in peace before it all kicks off. In laws will be on the way soon 

maidenfan

RandallFlagg said:

maidenfan said:

Mine were up before 7, heard Mrs Maiden getting ready for work (A&E Psych. Nurse)

I might see her later after spendng the day at my parents!

Christmas is actually not that bad really for us in A&E, in between and just after new year is generally much busier. I know what you mean about the family thing though!

joeyowen

Our new born is poorly, be thankful you got to sleep until 4am haha! 

Our 2 yr old was up at 650, no complaints! 

Fuengi

3 year old was up at 7.05am.

Mother-in-law was up at 5am! 

frictionfraction

I couldn't sleep - up at 4am.  Wife and daughters 8:30

TimmyO

Fuengi said:

3 year old was up at 7.05am.

Mother-in-law was up at 5am! 

haha

IvisonGuitars

I think we got away pretty lightly with our 4 year old at 5 to 6 this morning.

Trying to get him to bed last night however was a different matter, tried all delaying tactics including a new one... "I can't got to bed yet.... I just need to kiss the dog..." 

stimpsonslostson

0315 for us. Calmed them down & got them back to bed, where they stayed till 0730. 
I'll take that- 0615 is the norm in my house. 

scrumhalf

I was woken at about 5am by my bladder.

On reflection,.it's better than not being woken by it...

mattdavis

Ouch. 6.30 here and consider myself exceedingly lucky. 
Although - fucking Santa completely forgot about me - AGAIN! I'm sure he could be had on discrimination charges

cacophony

i was up at 3:45. not for prezzies/kids, but because i'm getting over the pneumonia i've had for nearly 8 weeks, and that's the time my lungs reach 'full' and i wake up drowning on dry land.




(and before anyone asks, 3x courses of steroids, 4x courses of increasingly potent antibiotics, plus various other meds/chest X-rays etc.) 

merry sodding christmas!!

snakemanStoo

Kids woke us up with brews at 8:30.  I think we've trained them well.