Unless you know for sure that he has to go to the bathroom, ignore him.
During the weekdays Im up at 6 am every morning and Echo, since he's not crated is sitting on the bed waiting for my alarm to buz, after that there is no containing him.
But on the weekends I can get at least another hour and a half out of him. We just make sure they go out at the last possible minute at night.
Indigo is still being crated, and has never made a mess in her crate, so she never wakes us up.
on occasion Echo will wake one of us up in the middle of the night for an emergency meeting, or maybe very early on a weekend.
I can tell by his persistence if he has to go or not. Then Ill just get up.I won't talk to him, Ill simply go downstairs, take Indigo out and let them both out back. I ask them for pee pee. they make then I go directly back in. Indigo in her crate, and I go back to bed.
I don't talk to them or praise them or talk our normal baby talk with them. So they don't get confused that its wake up time.
Works out pretty well.