When he needs to be a morning person

Salam..

This morning, as reminded by his teacher, all the afternoon session's students need to come in the morning session as they will have a full-rehearsal for LC Sports Day which will be held tomorrow morning at 8. So, my Fahri is one of the afternoon session's students. As a not-so-morning person (just like the father hihihi) everyone has a doubt when Fahri needs to get up so early, especially my MIL. But, knowing my Fahri and maybe the mother instict itself has given me so much confidence that my boy would not have so much problem to join in the morning session.

Today is the second day he needed to wake up early after the first rehearsal last week. So, I applied the same trick. Just like the first rehearsal day, last night, I switched off the TV (the main reason he sleeps very late at night) and pretended like the TV was not working and something was wrong with it. Well, he could so relate to this because few weeks back, we had problem with the ASTRO decoder which caused an ASTRO technician came to repair the decoder for numbers of time. So last night, while he was watching his cartoon, I switched the TV off (so sorry baby). Then, he looked at me and said "mama?? TV tu"..

Pretending looking at my phone, then I said "Oh nooo... TV rosak lagi ke?". Then, I was acting like a female technician, checking the TV and the plug, then I looked at him, 'frustratedly'. Then he said "hujan ni mama..". He blamed the rain. He was trying to say the TV might not function due to rain. Then I said "maybe lah sayang sebab hujan kot.. It's ok.. kita call uncle keh (konon2 the ASTRO technician)". "Ok... call uncle"..he said. Arggghh sory sayang, tipu sunat..I did this to put him bed earlier.

Then, just like last time, I called my hubby and asked him to act like 'ASTRO uncle'. So, hubby talked to Fahri with his fake Chinese Malay accent ;) 'Uncle' siap cakap to Fahri "you tido dulu la ma.. nti besok uncle datang repair itu TV ok" hihihi.. Then, my MIL, FIL, SIL and Naeem came home from my MIL's house as she had mengaji that evening. So, I told Fahri to go upstairs and get in the room to sleep. Naeem followed us so .. hmm you know when they 'miss' each other. They were pillow-fighting until 11 pm! Ok.. I just let them be.. I know they missed to fight (it's how they express their brotherhood love ok! ;) ) Then, 11 o'clock.. I stopped the fight (after few attempts) and told Fahri I will read him a tick-tock book (his fav book) if he promised me to stop the pillow-fight. He agreed. Again, when I was reading the book with Fahri, as usual, Naeem felt left-out and would do anything to get my attention such as taking the book away! hahaha.. So, I gave up, asked hubby (who was very tired and sleepy) to look after Naeem while I put Fahri to bed. So, Fahri slept at 11.20 pm last night. Quite an achievement. Like seriously. He wanted to sleep by himself. I guess maybe he felt bored because the TV 'was not working' and tired after the 'pillow-fight'. I was happy I didn't have to scold him just to sleep a lil bit earlier than usual. I also kept reminding him before he went to sleep that he needs to wake up early tomorrow morning as he is required to join the morning session. He seemed to understand that.

Thus, Alhamdulillah, everything went well this morning ( I also prayed to Allah swt to ease my plan). At 7 am, I woke Fahri up, took him to shower with his eyes closed. All he said was "Mama.. nak tido.." I was just said OK OK and OK. Then, I put on his shirt and pants and drove him to school. I cheered him up inside the car by singing and making faces like crazy mama. He was laughing and looked all fresh. Alhamdulillah. I think he is ready for morning session next year. InsyaAllah.

So, let's see for tomorrow. All of us need to be at the field at 8 am! We really need to sleep early tonight. Wish us luck.

P/S: I am so proud of u Abg Fahri :)