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WWYD if your DD is not sleeping in your bed, but instead kissing your arm and saying she loves you?

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pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 20:21

I told her she could sleep in with me as DH is out all night, I am poorly and like DD sleeping with me. When she sleeps. She loves sleeping in our bed and its a treat for her.

This is how the last 15 mins have gone.

go to sleep please
i love you mama.
mama? I love you. You love me?
Yes, I love you very much, now go to sleep.
Mama, I love you. (kisses me arm very gently)
(kiss her forehead) i love you too, go to sleep now please.
Oh, ok mama, love you mama (fluffs up her pillow, wiggles around a bit)
love you mama.
(kisses my arm)
Love you mama
I love you too. If you do not go to sleep in 5 minutes you go into your own bed.
Ok. Mumeeeeeeeee? I love you (sighs, picks nose, rolls onto side).

Do I put her into her own bed where I stand a chance of getting some time to myself or do I wait for her to eventually fall asleep while continuing the above conversation which is quite sweet, but might take a while

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BananaFruitBat · 13/05/2009 20:24

DS does that to me. I can't put him in his own room when he does it - and he knows it!

pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 20:24

ROFL, ok so scrap that post, seeing as after she turned to her side, literally one minute after she said 'i love you' for the final time, I said 'i love you baby' and stroked her hair, and she is FAST asleep, just like that! She just wanted the last word that was all

I love my baby girl

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pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 20:25

banana it is quite annoying isnt it? they have you completely when they do it don't they? I just find it so hard not to answer her when she says I love you even though I should just ignore her!

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pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 20:42

Now, she is spread across the middle of the bed while I am squished in the corner...how did that happen?

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nickytwotimes · 13/05/2009 20:44

Ah ha!
She's got you with her cutey pie lovey dovey-ness!

Sweet, innit?

EyeballsisonaDietAgain · 13/05/2009 20:44

At least you don't get pinched to buggery! And DD is in our bed every bleedin' night

pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 20:52

pinched i would not enjoy that, unless it was accompanied with 'love you mama', that just makes my heart melt every time she says it. She is almost 3. I want her to stay like this forever.

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BananaFruitBat · 13/05/2009 20:55

Have you got your bed back yet?

EyeballsisonaDietAgain · 13/05/2009 20:57

And how the hell do they take up so much room?? She ends up lying sideways across my side while I have to sleep bunched up on the bottom half of the bed next to DH's feet so that I don't accidentally squash her

popsypie · 13/05/2009 20:59

Oh, she's good, she's very good!!! My dd is exactly the same. She shouts down the stairs "I have got something to tell you" then when you go up (in a bad mood cos you are trying to watch the telly!!) she says "I love you so much" Then she knows she can do what she wants!! But, yes I want her to stay like this forever too - the little heart melter!!!

pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 21:14

popsypie - that is a good one! I wonder how long it will take for DD to learn that one!

I just up to get the power supply for the laptop rom the front room and came back to watch her stretch across both my side and DHs side!!! Cheeky little un, so I gently rolled her over, she opened her eyes, smiled, closed them, sighed and clasped her hands together in prayer. Apparantly, DH says I do that to, aw how sweet she sleeps like mama!!!

She is likely to figit a lot, in which case she will be delicately tranfered to her bed in a couple of hours. But we shall see. DH is out for beers, will be drunk so has already been told he is in the front room tonight. Maybe she can stay for the night. maybe.

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pavlovthepregnantcat · 13/05/2009 21:15

eyeballs - why do they lie sidewards? our bed is square, it makes no difference to space for her?!!

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EyeballsisonaDietAgain · 13/05/2009 21:26

I know. I used to think she was rolling down the hill into the hole that my lardy self was making but she does it when I'm not there as well. We have an enormous bed but she still lies on my side along under my pillow. And then pinches me

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