more than meets the eye

This morning Elias woke up with me to eat breakfast at 5 am and watch transformers before I left for work. I have to admit that I have always enjoyed watching transformers and that I frequently watched it when I was way too old to be watching it. Now its different because its something I do with just Elias and its the sweetest admission of love and loyalty.

Every night when I put the kids to bed Elias asks if I work the next day and if I do he does two things. First he puts his watch bACK on his wrist before he goes to bed and then he insists that I wake him up when I wake up. The one time that I didn't wake him up he was devastated and he told Tristan that it was his fault that he didn't have breakfast with me because he didn't put his watch on before bed.
He started waking himself up in the middle of the night and then coming in to my room to ask how soon we were waking up so I gave in and settled on waking my poor little man every morning that I work. Maybe next Sophia will want to start waking up with us too.... oh wait, that would never happen!