keeping toddler in bed in mornings?

If it's getting earlier all the time, you could look at extending her bedtime. Otherwise when she wakes you could pass a couple of books in to her? I'm not sure if she would understand "it's a bit too early, have a bit more sleep", but a lot of that depends on how light it is in her room.

Personally I'd wait until daylight savings and then re-look at the situation. Or start slowly adjusting her towards that time, since it's only in a couple of weeks (the 18th I think).

jacks door is shut when he goes to bed so when he wakes in the morning he can't get out and annoy us we are such meanies
but really though, jack's happy to play in his room for a while after he wakes and when he's ready to come out he knocks on the door 'where are you mummy?'

do you think your DD would be happy with the door shut?

I'm a bad mother, when I was pregnant and couldn't drag myself out of bed when Maya woke I taught her how to turn on her Spot DVD and help herself to bananas in the fruit bowl (until she discovered biscuits in the pantry). It bought me an extra half an hour to sort myself before I had to deal with getting her breakfast etc.

She was 3 tho. And as I said, it's questionable whether it amounts to neglect or not, poor child

Ayja is in a convertable cot - but i have not yet taken the sides off, so he he, she is trapped. however usually we wake to her calling out "Mu-um, muuuuuumm" then if there's no response "Daaad, daddy," then usually the thing that makes us run is "Pooos!" simply cos a couple of times if she has done them she has managed to get her hand inside her nappy, no smearing involved thank goodness, but still... if we hear that, we are out of bedl ike a shot. but it depends on my work routines as to their routines. If i have been on mornings it's not uncommon for them to wake up at quarter to 6 on my days off which sucks seriously. paris once awake doesn't go back to bed, but sometimes happily snuggle sin with us. Ayja used to be persuaded with a bottle and again, hardly ever went back to her own bed without a fight but happily snuggles in with us... now that she is only offered water, hhm, doesn't work much. each child will only go sleep in with us if the other one isn't there, if there's both it turns from pretending to sleep, to casual wriggling, to kicking, to hair pulling to rolling around and jumping on mum and dad to running around the house being complete nuts.. in a matter of about 5 minutes.

moral of the story, we try to persuade them back to sleep - which is ok after a cuddle and drink of water mostly - as long as it's still around 5-am-ish and dark. once light, we just resort to whos turn it is to get up or if we get 2 days off in a row, then it's working out who gets what days as a "sleep-in" (ie, 8am)

I used to love it when Paris was that age cos mike would get her up, dressed, give her brekkie and i'd wake up to an empty house cos they'd gone to the park. he just doesn't do that with the two of them - i think it might have something to do with the fact that Ayja's a "runner". lol

Well I am really lazy over weekends. She wakes up at 6:50 during the week. Or lets say I wake her up. But during weekends she wakes us up at 6.

So I am really being a bad mommy and just breastfeed her and then I can lie for an extra 10 minutes. But there goes breakfast. If I am lucky she goes to sleep again and I get another hour or so.

Hey breastmilk is still great for her so not too worried about it.