Hello all, happy new year! Slightly jealous of your early Christmas Eve Kelly - did you have an early start too? We were up at half five so spent most of the day exhausted and stressed. Ah well - DD enjoyed it anyway.
Love your story about DD going to sleep and being all excited about school. My DD is very much out of love with school at the moment, which is hard work. Oh, and still in love with boob, which is also hard work. I don't tend to tell people that we're tandeming unless they ask us directly, though I did inadvertently out myself on FB a few weeks ago. Oopsy. Last night she wanted to kiss both my breasts goodnight "on their little noses". That's another one I've not shared with FB ...
No resolutions here. I was rubbish at NYE, the whole thing kind of snuck up on me and I more or less failed to notice it was happening - despite it being the anniversary of DH and I getting together and him proposing to me 
I need some help with night weaning. We initially night-weaned DD about a year ago so I could get pg again and it took about three days and was surprisingly easy (although to be fair it did involve me moving to the spare room for a few months - but no crying, and I got sleep yay). Since then she has moved to her own room, again fairly seamlessly, but tends to come in with us first thing in the morning. Over the past few months though, "first thing in the morning" has been all over the place, from 1 am to 7 am, and a couple of times she's confused me into feeding her in the night just because I have no idea what time it is So I've been trying to re-night-wean in the hopes she will start sleeping through again.
Last night was horrific. She was awake from 4.30 am to 6.30 am, pretty much crying for boob the entire time. At 6.30 am we agreed we'd set an alarm for 7.30 and we all went to sleep (and the alarm didn't actually go off, or if it did we all slept through it). Generally for the last week or so the two DC have been tag-teaming each other - seems to be impossible for them to be asleep at the same time at night. Argh. Thank god DH has had this week off so we've been taking turns to have lie-ins.
The only solutions I could think of last night involved the three of us lying in our bed listening to her crying alone in hers, which didn't appeal. I've just suggested to DH that he and she move to the spare room for a while, so she's not on her own, which might work.
I want to do it because I think that the consistency would help, but then listening to her crying last night I couldn't help wondering whether it was the right thing and being flexible would be better? :( I just don't want to confuse her (it's hard enough trying to explain when it's night/morning when it's equally dark outside both times) ... And sometimes boob does just knock her right out, which is fab, because then we all sleep, but lots of the time it doesn't, it just turns into an hour long feeding session with me awake and resentful and her crying every time I unlatch her. Argh.
Last question before I end this looooong me me me (again) rant I've more or less ended up allocating DS and DD a boob each. The side DD has was much much more painful while I was pregnant. I've now realised that it's also much more sensitive/uncomfortable/just downright toe-curling (it's a hard sensation to describe) because I notice the difference when DS is on that side too, despite his gentler suck/lack of teeth/unlikelihood to be watching CBeebies at the same time. Any idea why I should be getting different sensations in each side? It's baffled me a bit.