The other day when I was waking Reid up I sang,

Good morning to you,
Good morning to you,
Good morning, Reid Elizabeth,
Good morning to you.

I usually follow up with a verse of “What day is this?” and then “It’s Tuesday today” (or whatever the appropriate day). And usually, despite my awful singing voice, Reid grins when I sing - helped a bit by me tickling her.

On this particular day, though, Reid stopped me and so I switched to “[1] How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning“. Ot at least I tried but it turns out I know only the first line of the song. I’m going to have to commit the first verse to my memory:

Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning,
Oh! How I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call:
‘You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up,
You’ve got to get up this morning!’

Reid liked the latter song and started to sing the “Oh, how I hate to wake up” line all by herself with enthusiasm. More enthusiasm than you would expect from someone professing to hate to wake up. Reid generally has no problem waking up, provided that she can have some milkies and wake up slowly.

How about you, what is your waking up song?