November 2008. Almost 4.5 and counting down to school <gulp>

[LeggaDAISYcal]

Ta Da

Thanks for the congrats, everyone! (ceebee - haven't posted it on FB, that's why you haven't read it - always feel weird about that for some reason!)

On sleep, both my boy sleep through the night from about 7.30pm...but wake up in the 5s (!!!!) We had them going through until about 6.30 for a few months, but has drifted earlier again... Given we're moving next week we're letting it be for now, but I think it's simply that both of them only need 10 hours sleep (has always been that way for M). So I think we'll just start putting them to bed later. We have avoided that strategy so far as we like our quiet evenings...but the early mornings are just getting too much...

Fox - my friend is the same about announcing her pregnancy on FB. She is about 17 weeks and still hasn't done it!

I think we have just come to the conclusion that our 2 are just early risers. Doesn't matter what time they go to bed, they rarely wake up later than 6.30 . If they do have a late night they still wake up early but are just grumpy pants all day!!

After 6 and a half years of getting up early 7 days a week, I wish I could say it gets easier but it doesn't

Mine are very early risers too. 6am normally. Has always been like that. But they sleep really well and don't wake up, so like ceebee I can't complain.
But M just gets up, with ds1(9) and they go downstairs and watch tv, so they don't even disturb. There are a few benefits of having any older child who can look afte the younger one!!

When Owen was coming in my bd he would sleep until 7:30 but now he is sleeping in his room all night he does 10 hours which means he us up at 6. All my dc's have been early risers so I'm used to it now.

Today has been eventful. Dd2 has been to a&e and now Owen has a temp of 38.9 and sounds really coldy

I saw that on fb widdles, what happened to your DD?

oblomov I look forward to the day when ds1 and ds2 will get up and put the tv on. :)

Dd2 cut 2 fingers last night on a broken mirror, thought I should get them checked out and now she looks like a mummy

Congrats fox i missed that one!

widdles hope the DCs are ok.

We are to DBs in Worcester for Easter, its DNs birthday and we are looking forward to seeing them.

My DSs will get up and entertain themselves but DD cannot be left alone!

Widdles hope your DC are ok

Technically J could probably go downstairs and put the telly on but there are 2 problems with this:

1. we have the house alarm on at night and don't really want to teach J how to switch it off

2. the pair of them would argue about what to watch which would then turn into a fight and one and/or both of them shouting 'mummy' loudly to go and resolve it or crying because one of them is hurt therefore defeating the object!!

Ceebee I know exactly where you are coming from Owen always plays in his bedroom and dd2 would go downstairs but generally I am up anyway, no lie ins for me

Fox, congratulations and good luck with the move :), busy times ahead!

Widdles hope your dc are ok.

Dd1 & 2 have always been good sleepers we have been very lucky. They fell asleep as soon as their head hit the pillow tonight, M had her rehearsal down at the church for the preschool Easter service today so they had to walk down and back then they both had swimming lessons tonight, M been going for about 5 weeks now but tonight she did not want to get wet, swimming teacher very good tho and just took her from me, she was fine 5 mins later. M is very clingy with me I think she takes bad when dh is away at work, we went through a bad time at her cm for a while she would be crying every morning, I felt awful leaving her, but cm is lovely, no issue really she just didn't want me to go to work. I ended up in tears most mornings too :(.

Whoneeds my mum and dad are going up to their caravan in glamis for easter (if its not snowing) so we will probably go up their the girls love it :) are you doing anything?

Am loving how many people are here :)

Need your help ladies, Owen still has a raging temp of 39, so we will be stating home all day. Dh is in bed as he came in from work at 6am, I feel crap with a cold so what am I going to do with dd2 today. She has a very short attention span and needs to be entertained.

Morning everyone :)

Sorry Ds still isn't well widdles, what do you think is causing his temp?

What does your dd like to do? Would she be happy with paints/drawing/movie/baking etc?

She would do all those things on the space of half an hour

I think Owen has a virus, has runny nose but not too bad on himself

Just got in from gp Owen has a water infection and chest infection, got him some medicine and his temp seems to be coming down already

Poor Owen, hope he starts to feel better soon

Just seen your message about entertaining your DD, hope you found something to do. I would have had no suggestions as I am rubbish at entertaining my 2 unless it involves television/film

DH is away, I am sat here watching the football whilst S is in bed and J has fallen asleep on the sofa snuggled under 3 blankets and I have just eaten an entire easter egg - bliss

Aww glad you have some antibiotics they seem to be working widdles, hope he feels better soon.

I watched the tennis last night ceebee whilst eating an Easter egg. I'm sure my work uniforms are going to be snug next week!

impala that sounds fun over Easter, I bet E will love having friends stay. My E just loves having company his own age, he loves it when he has friends round to play.

Happy Easter everyone :) I feel sick, far too much chocolate.

Only a week to go until we get our school result. Can't wait.

Hope all those waiting on school placements get the results they want.

How did we all get on?
J got our first choice, but we are in catchment so would have been surprised if we didn't.

I'm really excited about it, he's definitely ready.

Just making sure I really treasure my Mondays and Fridays with him