as I'm quite concious of the fact that a lot of the time when I post about him it's because of his poor behaviour.
Well last night (thursday) he made me really proud (and I shall tell him so in the morning).
I've not been sleeping well for the last week or so (well probably longer - but the last week has been particularly bad). Combination of stress and sick children.
Last night after I'd put DS2 and 3 to bed at 8pm I lay down on the sofa, telling DS1 (who has recently turned 8) that if I did fall asleep he should take himself off to bed (I don't go and tuck him in etc anyhow - so it was just going to be a case of me not telling him it was bedtime).
Well I didn't really think he would as I thought he'd get engrossed in his drawing or something and "no notice" the time. Well I totally crashed on the sofa. His bedtime is 9pm........I woke up at 9.20pm (briefly) - and he'd already taken himself off to bed with no prompting from me.
I know it sounds very silly - but I'm immensely proud of him for that as one thing I struggle with with him is his lack of intuition to get on and do something even if I don't actually stand there and spell it out to him.