The mystery of the alarm clock

Our morning started off pretty typically - tired Mama wakes up to a crying 2 year old and tells her to go back to sleep because it's not time to get up yet and I'll come get you when your alarm clock goes off.  That was at 5:37am at which time Campbell's clock read the correct time. 

It may seem a little odd that we're using an alarm clock with our 23 month old but we needed to find a more concrete way of getting her to accept staying in bed and/or sleeping longer (past 5am) and I read about this method in the Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child book (which I love - I would recommend it to any parent). The method is geared for ages 3 and up but we were out of ideas and decided to try. It's worked amazingly well! Both Jeff and I feel like Campbell's response has almost been too good to be true but we're thankful for it. I think we've learned that a rewards system works really well with motivating her. Her reward is two m&m's when she stays quiet in her bed until her alarm goes off at 6:20. Apparently my child is nuts over chocolate! Don't judge me - it's only 2 m&m's. :)

So normally my alarm on my phone is set to go off at 6:17am so I wake up and head right in to turn the alarm clock off and be prompt in getting Campbell up like we say we will. Today my alarm went off 10 minutes late and I have no idea how that happened. So I looked at my clock and realize Campbell must have been listening to her alarm for a LONG time and I jumped out of bed to go get her (really hoping she wasn't upset that we hadn't come yet.) To my surprise and joy Campbell was sitting quietly in her bed happily waiting. When I come in I always say "Good Morning!" and I walked in and Cams said "Good morning Mama!! Good Morning!" I was really proud of her. I went to turn her alarm clock off and saw something strange. Even though the alarm had been going off at the right time, the time on her clock read 2:37pm. Hmmmm. That didn't make sense.

I didn't spend much time thinking about it initially because I wanted to reward Cams while she remembered what it was about. After being downstairs for awhile I started thinking about it. The time was right at 5:30 when I went in. The alarm went off at the right time so the clock time had to have been correct in order for the alarm to go off correctly. It would make sense if we thought our little person could get in and out of her crib to try and turn it off by herself and mess with buttons but we don't really think that she can yet. We've seen her try to climb in and out but when Jeff and I have watched she just can't make it over her crib and lift herself that high. So the clock mystery is perplexing me. Either Campbell all the sudden figured out how to climb out and into her crib quickly and quietly (with the self control to get back in her crib and not come find us) or something went wrong with her clock. 

I asked Cams if she tried to turn her alarm clock off and she said, "NO!" like she does when she's telling on herself for doing something wrong. That answer could mean either no or yes. It's a bit hard to figure things out with a 23 month old when you weren't there to see it yourself. I am hoping that Cams doesn't know how to get out of her crib yet but I guess we'll see if the clock has another mysterious time change tomorrow morning! I just have no idea what to expect!