And I probably was in bed about midnight, but I’m up again now, as I hadn’t had a drink and wasn’t actually ready for bed, just trying to settle Small down (again).
Been an odd sort of day. British Gas were due to come round to do the annual boiler check, and I was sure they would come early. But instead we all slept in til about 8.30 again (which was good as I’d had another disturbed night with Small) and they didn’t come until I performed the ritual summoning dance (otherwise known as going and getting in the shower). Everything is fine (this is good) and off they went again for another year.
Had a friend round this aft to learn about websites – her younger son is two days younger than Small, and it was lovely to see the boys playing together. Big was a bit left out of it, and wasn’t impressed by this at all, despite me going and getting the rest of the duplo from the garage. She played up most of the afternoon, and then was an absolute horror about getting ready for ballet, and I came so close to just not going, but we’re probably going to miss a couple of lessons over the next few weeks, so I don’t really want to miss any that we can get to. I know that she really loves it, I think she just enjoys the fuss of getting me stressed about getting her there on time.
Back from the lesson, tea, bath and bed for Big, and time for Small to start his evening performance. He didn’t nap at all today, so was shattered, and I optimistically took him up just after 8 o’clock. I finally came back downstairs about 9.15, having been kicked, bitten, headbutted, had my hairpulled and generally not enjoyed the procedure at all. I’m not sure what you are supposed to do when you are co-sleeping like this – he is tired, ever so tired, but he doesn’t want to go to bed. I don’t like the idea of just letting him keel over down here – not least because he doesn’t!
Got a bit of work done this evening, but not as much as I hoped, as I seem to have spent most of the night tootling up and down the stairs. oh well. Did manage to organise reinforcements for tomorrow, so hopefully it’ll be a better day.
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Hope you have a better day today Jax
Hi Jax, I was up thinking about that very issue (getting co-sleeping toddlers to sleep!) It began at around 7 months with Mialani and drove me insane. With her breastfeeding usually worked … as she couldn’t refuse a bit of “teeta” … but Freya is now 4 months and not so much a slave to the breast … being far more interested in socialising in the dark even! One thing we did was to always sleep in the dark from birth! (tho I think they all get a bit twitchy about that at some later stage).
I’ve got it all coming in a few months (from the point they can crawl as I remember … and that has usually been 5 months) … so you’ll see my blogspot steaming real soon!
BW
Sal