Meghan's Off-Switch

Anyone who's met Meghan understands her two nicknames - "the Tornado" and "the Energizer Bunny" - and has at some point wondered where the "off switch" is. I think I found the formula.

Yesterday, Meghan's day went like this:
8 am - up, dressed, breakfast
9 - swimming - where she swam and floated by herself for a few seconds and realized that she did it + jumped off the big diving board all by herself after a brief few seconds of a fear of heights
10-3 - snacks, play, and learning intermittenly by herself and with Mommy
3-5 - play outside
5-6 dinner
6 clean up time
7-9:30 go to school (more on this after the schedule)
9:30 sing Happy Birthday to Grandpa and tell him all about her day
9:45 bath
10pm - bed but can't sleep
11pm - finally asleep
7am the next morning - wants to know if it's time to go to Daddy's baseball game yet - falls asleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed with a "no, not yet"
8:30am - washroom break then back to her own bed
10am - still dead to the world (after two tries of the get-up routine)
10:30 - Mommy plans to try the get-up routine again (everything she can think of - most of which doesn't work, the rest of which makes for a really cranky girl)

School Last Night
- Meghan found the classroom and was in playing with the toys and other kids before Mommy and Daddy even made it halfway down the hall.
- Mommy and Daddy thought they should at least go into the classroom, so they do - no point, they can't even get Meghan to acknowledge their presence
- after the meeting, Mommy and Daddy take their time getting back to the classroom because they know that unless Meghan is the last one there, some kicking and screaming will be involved.
- Forever later, when it's just us and the janitor left in the entire school - we finally convince Meghan to leave (though not quickly)

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Obituary

Notice: David's 1998 Sunfire with nearly 375,000 KMs will be laid to rest next Tuesday. He has replaced his "other love" with a younger model (a 2009 navy blue Elantra).

A eulogy may come at a later date. But for now, you may pay your respects in the comments section of this posting.