Wakeup routine

For almost 3-4 months now, Ms. Pandey wakes up and lies still in her crib for a few minutes, expecting her mom to get up and pick her up. After the timer expires, she starts cooing and gurgling to alert us to the event. It is at this moment that we wake up (sharp 9am – you don’t need an alarm clock). Mom picks her up and places her on the bed between us, which triggers the pointy-touchy sequence. She either lies flat or rolls over to either one of us and touches all our facial contours with her thumb and forefinger, finally resting on the lips. From then on, you have to kiss her hand in an infinite loop. Remove it, and its back expecting more. Loop breakage is by picking her up and taking her out to the living room.

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