My DD wakes between 6.30 and 7.30am. But like you Fiona, I am definitely not a morning person. No matter how much sleep I get I'm so tired when my alarm goes off in the morning. She's quite happy to wait for me to get her. Sometimes I'm selfish and ignore her to sleep in a little. She'll play, get insistent, give up, go back to sleep and either wake around 9am or I wake her.

My housemate's kids have two volumes: loud and louder. I don't blame them, they're kids. And they're still learning english (mum's chinese). But unfortunately, they always wake DD. But she never cries awake, just murmurs or talks to her teddy.