Tired offspring.

and tired parents! Not a good combination.

After a restless night (all on my own account, no nocturnal offspring 😉 ), we both managed to sleep through the alarm. Just as well that Small woke at 7 by falling out of Big’s bed again really :-/ So started off the day cuddling a weeping Small, and 13 hours later, he finished in much the same way. Fairly sure there were some happy times for him in between though.

Being 10 minutes late starting my trip to work was a stunningly bad idea, as it took an hour and a half to get there. The run home was pretty good, and in between, I put my first real stuff into QA, and confuddled the testers by treating them as allies. There’s always a healthy rivalry as it were between developers and testers, but when it comes down to it, we’re on the same side. It’s their responsibility, as I see it, to be my safety net, so that I don’t end up looking like a muppet to the customers. Not sure that they’ve been exposed to a developer who thinks that way before, and probably not to one who goes over and sits with them for an hour to make sure they understand the system they are supposed to be testing 😉

Wasn’t too surprised when I got some fails by the end of the day, still learning the system, after all. So at least I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

Evening was noisy. Big was right on the edge, and very screamy, and when I’m tired, I don’t do screamy. Actually, I don’t do screamy when I’m not tired either come to that. So we ended up losing story time privileges, which was rather a shame, but she spent some time with Tim doing magnetic lasso-ing on Tim’s Photoshop. And I read to Small, which was pleasant, even if he was less than pleased when I declared it was time to stop and go to bed.

The only really annoying thing about it was that I left my cup of tea in there and haven’t dared go back in to get it yet 🙁

Oh, and the other thing Big managed to remember today was about her food groups, and eating her 5 a day of fruit and veg. And tonight I’ve finally managed to print her off a chart to keep track of it all. Boxes are smaller than I wanted, but I’m sure she’ll manage to do something artistic with it. And it’s got a Card Captor Sakura piccie on it to finish it off!