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Is there such a thing as a glow in the dark drinking flask?

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 12:59

Ds wakes up in the night and has a drink of water. It is a non-leak cup so we put it next to him in bed, but most nights he loses it and I have to get up to help him find it

(or most annoying... "Mummy mummy I can't find my.....oh here it is!", when I am already at his bedside )

Would a glow in the dark thing work do you think? Or can you get glow in the dark indelible paint or something?

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poisson · 11/07/2006 13:21

bet you he still wakes you

hahahha

katierocket · 11/07/2006 13:21

Ahem

oliveoil · 11/07/2006 13:21

no I don't mean it is wrong for him to get out of bed, I was just mentioning that dd1 doesn't get up and harrass me or get in our bed in the night like most

JackieNo · 11/07/2006 13:22

Might be worth a try, anyway, F&Z. Sorry, still sniggering childishly at 'afterglow duration' .

colditz · 11/07/2006 13:23

just shout "keep looking"

if he really wants it he will find it himself. if not, he can't have been that thirsty.

colditz · 11/07/2006 13:23

just shout "keep looking"

if he really wants it he will find it himself. if not, he can't have been that thirsty.

poisson · 11/07/2006 13:24

shout get back t o fuckgin sleep
may help

come ON we haev all been tempted!!

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 13:24

Em, Katy - JackieNo linked to that in her first post, about 10 mins ago

(also he has the cup in bed with him, so thank you, but no good I'm afraid)

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poisson · 11/07/2006 13:24

in bed?/////////////////////////////

ok i ma off for lunch

nailpolish · 11/07/2006 13:24

if he is anything like my dd1 he will wake you to tell you what a good boy he is going ot the tap all by himself with his cup and having a drink and not waking mummy to get her to do it

we have an empty cup in the bathroom beside the sink (which has a step in front of it to reach) and we also have one of these touch-on lights as dd cant reach the lightswitch

when she gets up in the night to wee wee she usually has a little drink after the hand washing etc

dh was going to put the touch-on light thingy in her room but i just know she would play with it

katierocket · 11/07/2006 13:25

Oh. I am a knob.

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 13:25

Oops sorry spelt Katie wrong now

yes I think "keep looking" is worth a try

However I live in fear of him waking up in the night and being Properly Awake, so prefer to launch myself at a sprint towards his room and try and fix whatever it is very very quickly

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Cappucino · 11/07/2006 13:25

dd1 doesn't get drinks after bedtime

it only leads to her wanting a wee later

I think children should shut down completely after bedtime

like laser printers

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 13:26

No katie you are very kind and helpful

just a bit slow, that's all

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 13:27

He is in grobag

in nappy

so getting up to get his own not an option, and I don't care if wees like a fountain

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katierocket · 11/07/2006 13:29

Yes, teaches me to only read the first post (I'm forever doing that).

LOL at the laser printers analogy.

nailpolish · 11/07/2006 13:30

franny, sew a pouch/bag thingy and hang it over his bedhead/side/headboard , and keep his cup in it

my cousin made a pouch thing and its hangs over the side of the bed for her ds, he keeps a sports cup in it

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 13:38

Another great idea np

I have noticed however that all these ideas involve me actually doing something

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Cappucino · 11/07/2006 13:45

yeah

much easier to shout 'no, go back to sleep'

poisson · 11/07/2006 14:08

gorbag?

thud

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 14:12

I spend mine and ds's waking hours thinking up new ways to annoy you, cod

The grobag is fab, he never gets out of bed. It renders him completely inert, like a pupa.

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poisson · 11/07/2006 14:17

but he uis 3 .4?
cnat oyu jst say to him
" go back to bed"
eh isnt a baby any mroe!

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 17:09

Simpler surely if he never gets out of bed in the first place?

We are quite happy with our bedtime routine, really, cod, I think it's only you who are feeling miserable about it...

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tamum · 11/07/2006 17:22

I was going to suggest what nailpolish suggested, finding some way of having the drink attached to something so it can't wander. I would be worried about what it was that made something glow in the dark for 10 hours....I do tentatively wonder if he might be calling you less if he wasn't in a grobag though? It's great that he doesn't get up in the night but not so good if he calls you, and maybe he'd be a bit more mobile and able to look for stuff if he was a bit freer? I may have missed the point though, maybe it's just the darkness that's the issue.

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FrannyandZooey · 11/07/2006 17:25

Yeah, I see what you mean - it's the dark that gets him, though. If he wanted to, he could get about with the grobag on (sometimes he wants to keep it on in the morning, and he walks about with it )

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