Is it Seven-Zero-Zero?

Along with all of my other friends, our family is struggling a bit with the time change - even now 2 weeks into it. Davis and Andrew were on a great schedule of waking up at 7:00 am (Andrew sometimes as late as 8:00 am), but "falling back" threw that off so they are of course waking up an hour earlier.

It really is amazing that Davis's internal clock is spot on to get up at 6:00 every morning. OK, I have to admit that over the last couple of weeks it has shifted slightly so that some days it's 6:15 or 6:40, but early all the same.

So, I took Davis to Wal-Mart last Friday and let him pick out a clock. He's fascinated with the clock on my nightstand and will just sit and watch it change from one minute to the next. We figured this would be a great way for him to understand exactly when he's allowed to come out of his room.

We have told Davis not to come down until his clock says "seven-zero-zero". He is struggling, however, with waiting until it actually gets to 7:00. Somehow, that just seems like a long time to wait! So we still have a little visitor come tripping down the stairs each morning, but we are asking him to go back up and rest in his room until 7:00. Our response to his arrival downstairs every morning has been "Is it seven-zero-zero?" This morning he didn't come down until 6:50, so that's definite progress. Maybe eventually it will catch on...we'll see! Whose idea was this time change, anyway?