Caitlin actually slept past 7 today and woke the hubby up first. Woo hoo.

But I feel compelled to add that he cooks dinner about 75 percent of the time so getting up with the kids on the weekends isn’t a bad tradeoff since I don’t like cooking.

I think it just depends on your children. Amelia is youngest and will sleep in until 8 or later if I let her but I always wake her up by 7:15 on a work day and 8 on weekends. Since I’m off on Fridays and the hubby works a lot of Saturdays I usually don’t mind getting up with Caitlin. And she definitely defers to me in the mornings. Plus I almost always go to bed before the hubby.

I think if you’re taking turns now, though, and it works I don’t see why it wouldn’t continue to work unless your second child wants mama in the mornings no matter what! That’s the thing with kids; they are all different and it’s hard to know how the family dynamic will work out once you have two children.

Have you tried taking turns with your husband when it comes to getting up on the weekends? Saturdays are my day to sleep in and my husband sleeps in on Sundays. Although, one of his big reservations to having another child is that we’d never get to do that (take turns sleeping in, that is). He said that with two, we’d always both have to get up.

Since you have two kids can you tell me if taking turns would work or is that something we’d definitely have to give up if #2 came along?