Don't Move a Muscle

Have you ever been lying in bed with a 4 year old, it's barely daybreak, you feel them starting to stir, you desperately want them to stay sleeping longer cuz you yourself didn't go to bed 'til 1:30 am (or later), but you also desperately want to change positions before the pain in your knee, or your hip, or your back becomes too excruciating. Perhaps it's not a limb loosing circulation... perhaps your pajama buttoms are so far up you butt - a wedgie of mass purportions. And you don't dare change your breathing pattern either. The slightest sign that you are not actually in a deep hibernation is all the go ahead they need to decide you are awake. You're like prey camoflaging yourself from the predator. And even when a little finger starts tracing your face ever so lightly, you lay completely still - for one hint of movement on your part means you are done for. You might as well have one foot on the floor getting ready to build a lego tower or turn on the Ninja Turtle movie or play Hotwheels (feel free to apply some girl metaphors if applicable...I myself would not know any having all boys). It's a battle of wills. Can you keep the fake out up long enough that they might give up and lay back down with you and for at least another 15 minutes. Then you hear..."MOM, it's morning day!!" Now your toast! Stick a fork in ya - you're done. There is NO convincing a 4 year that you can stay sleeping after it starts to get light out.