December 2012: The one were they are stubborn Monkeys

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Oh that's annoying WL hope she feels better soon.

5 days...

Spotty

Poor T hope she's OK soon. Would the restaurant deliver for an extra donation?

Get well soon T

Good Luck today Nutella.

Hope you get a nap today Spotty.

Early night for H means she very loud and active this morning.

I definitely won't! Dh won't be back until six. I'm trying to not be short tempered but it's not going well

Lunch out on his paycheck then!

Woo-hoo 5 days! Did you find a tiara?

They may deliver but it was all the community feeling that I wanted. The ds would have enjoyed the experience (if not the food) and I like to teach them about helping others etc. never mind.
T is currently asleep so hopefully will feel better after she wakes. Poor soul has even struggled to keep sips of water down.
spotty tell dh to do dc bedtimes and order a take away when he gets in while you have a relaxing bath!

DS fell asleep today while we were reading him stories. We let him have about 20-25 minutes because he was horrible.

Of course he doesn't want to sleep tonight. I've run out of patience but I've nowhere to stick him not he can climb out of bed.

I'm just worn out and thoroughly pissed off honestly. I need a break. DD woke me at 5:30 this morning and if DS doesn't go to bed until 9:30... Well there is nothing I can do. I've just really had enough.

Delad one day I'll have to arrange a trip where we manage a coffee.

We came back in time to go to the charity fun day at the stables. A got to ride a pony twice.

He spent all day insisting it was his birthday, not DH's. And because it was his "birthday" A felt the need to eat birthday cake in the nude.

Nutella is there any way you can put a stair gate across the bedroom door or something? That's enough to keep A in, and we've gone down that route and a selection of quiet toys (books, colouring etc) so they can entertain themselves if they aren't sleepy.

Hugs nut

nutella can you steel yourself for a few horrible days while he adjusts to life without naps in the knowledge that it will improve bedtimes?

Well after 10 hours of being sick every 15 mins I called 111 who sent us to walk in who sent us to a&e. 5 hours and rather excellent care and we're home. Poor little soul. Dr said virus, gave her an anti emetic and then slow fluids. Exhausted.

Exactly the same as DS last Tuesday WL. Must be everywhere. He felt much better the day after but almost a week later and he's still exhausted all the time. Hope T feels better soon.

Ha Beasty. I didn't know birthday cake in the birthday suit was a tradition? I'll bear it in mind!

J's the same Nutella. Even five mins of nap = 2 extra hours on bedtime. I'd try and stop the nap altogether if I were you and ride out the hellish evenings. and buy lots of wine for when he collapses into bed at 7pm sharp

Oh no wl! Sounds like you got great treatment though. When my friend took her (lethargic eyes rolling) dd to a&e after vomiting for three days the Dr asked her what she expected him to do about it

Hope you've managed to get some rest and she's feeling better.

I was asleep by 8 last night was still fast asleep when my alarm went off at 5

Spotty that amount of sleep sounds awesome!

beasty birthday cake in suit sounds hilarious!

wl so glad you got such great care and I hope she is feeling her usual toddler self again very soon!

Well DS was awful. In the end, after DH put him back in his bed 76 times I held DS until he calmed down (only a few minutes probably 10 at the most). He wanted to sleep in mummy bed. So I took him to the spare bedroom and we went to bed. I had to tell him off once but he was asleep pretty quick after that. I lifted him into his bed and he slept until around 3 when he woke crying to sleep with papa. So he did until about 6:15.

DD also did her usual nocturnal routine of being awake for about an hour and half. She slept until about 6:20. So they are still tag teaming us

And yes. The plan is absolutely definitely no nap!

spotty that's horrendous! I'd have complained. Great sleep though!

frazzled I seemed to recall that J had been the same. T is bright and perky today with a few cries about tummy pains but no vomit - hoorah! Lovely bike ride and picnic with friends out the window though!
nutella that sounds pretty tough. Ime the crying to sleep with each parent is still game play and if you can bear it, while your being tough about bedtimes, be tough about sleeping in own beds all night. It is so tough but will all be worth it in the end.

Nutella lack of sleep is rubbish i hope the no nap helps. H always seems to know when shes pushed me to breaking point and has a good sleep.

WL, glad they looked after T well yesterday its horrible when they're ill. I'm glad she is better today.

Beasty i'm loving A being naked eating cake, sounds perfect.

Spotty that is an amazing sleep.

I went to watch Take That last night they were amazing.

WL I'm taking the dc to southbank tomorrow for the day. Going to meet my sister and her dc you work that way don't you?

Hales sounds fun!

Nutella ds went through a phase of wanting to sleep with one of us too.

Oh my god. It is one of those days.

At about midday I was going to pick DS up from nursery to try and have a quiet afternoon with him at home. The car wouldn't start. The battery is so flat the instruments don't even turn on.

Then nursery rang to say DS is asking to go for a sleep.
Dh spoke to them this morning to say that if that happened they should call and that I might pick him up at midday anyway... So I explained about the car and said hey, let him sleep. He is so overtired anyway it might help...

He slept for three hours!

Now there is no side on his cot we really need a stairgate for his door.... That is top of the list for tomorrow. Right now he is in PJs and wellies in the garden playing in his sandpit.

Nutella, a bad today hopefully means that tomorrow will be a good day.

Nutella if I lived marginally closer to Germany I'd send you our spare stair gate!! All I can say is that it does get better. I know I'm sitting 2.5 years out, but the tag teaming stops and you will get some sleep.

I think we're a bit behind you on A dropping his nap. But DD waking me up at 6 am was very useful this morning- I'm meant to be up at 5.30am and I slept through DH going to the shower.

And I'll come clean and say both DC are having a sleepover with MIL. So a good night's sleep for us fx- she said she was worried about how exhausted I looked.

nutella
Yes beasty I'm one street back from the oxo tower on the south bank. I'm off for half term though so won't wave at you! Have a fun day.

I've just been sat downstairs when i heard a awful scream from H. I literally sprinted upstairs to her havn't sprinted in years and she was having a nightmare. They are getting much more frequent now for her.

Poor H hales

Hales thank you yesterday was better. I hate it when Ds has nightmares. It is usually when he cries out for Papa and refuses to go back into his own bed and wants to sleep with Dh. We understand, when one of us has a bad dream we like to cuddle too.

Actually, you've reminded me. I think DH had more nightmares when I was pregnant with DS. I would hear him starting to sort of squeak in his sleep and if I didn't reach out and touch him to comfort him he would sound more upset . But sometimes when he remembered the bad dream he would also say that in his dream I came and sorted the situation or rescued him. I think that's when he could feel me next to him. He is a sweety and such a worrier!

Beastly and everyone, Thank you! Poor DS was so tired last night he fell asleep while DH was reading to him. He didn't have a nap yesterday but I think the big nap the day before let him catch up on some much needed rest. He was much calmer since the nap. So he went into his bed fine at about 18:40. He woke a couple of times in the evening when he dropped a dummy. Then in the middle of the night he fell out of bed but after a little cuddle he went back down ok.
But this morning he woke at about 5:45.
So FX for no sleep today and off easily at bedtime again.

And I hope you enjoyed a great night's sleep beasty!