Letting her be exposed...

I have a tendency to be a wall between her and the world.
I am especially a wall when I know that she is more susceptible to a quick mood swing.
One of these times is in the morning. I know that when she wakes up she can very easily turn from Asleep to Holy Terror. Because of this I try to keep our morning routine exactly the same...
5:30a - Get her dressed while she is still asleep.
(this is helpful for two reasons - 1. She usually wakes up while I am doing this and 2. There isn't the huge indecisiveness of trying to figure out what to wear and changing her clothes nineteen times...)
5:45a - Take her to the couch and give her a glass of apple juice. She usually will wake up enough when drinking her juice to stay awake.
5:55a - Turn on Stanley. We sing the "Oooh & Ahhh" song together and then the Stanley song and on a good morning she is fine after that.
This morning though, she was pretty cranky and when I took her to the bathroom to brush her hair she was teetering between Good Day and Bad Day. My brother was in the bathroom brushing his teeth when we came in (he is doing wonderfully at adjusting to living with all us chics and only having one bathroom! lol). Well as I am brushing her hair, he starts humming at her while brushing his teeth.
I almost turned to him and told him to knock it off.
I was so close to saying it.
But I happened to look at her in the mirror first to see how she was taking this unscheduled noise in her morning and saw her smiling.
Smiling.
His humming, his out of our routine action, decided her mood and pushed her into Good Day.
But more importantly, she learned this morning that something out of our norm can be good.