Who Needs An Alarm Clock

With no school get up for, we've been letting the kids act as our alarm clocks, only waking when they come over to our room in the morning. This usually happens between 7 and 8 in the morning, although there have been some aberrations - one morning, E tumbled in at 5.50am.

Anyway, E always acts as if only she has the right to lie next to me. If J gets in next to me first, she'll fuss, whine and wriggle until she gets where she wants to be. Once she's there, she pulls my arm and wraps it around her waist, so that she's nicely cuddled.

Lately, she's taken to turning around to face me; she'll look at me intently until she's sure that she's got my eye, then she'll ever so slowly break into a sweet smile.

How to find a better way to wake up, I ask you?