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Climbing

What is it about having to do the same thing as your brother even if he is 2 years older than you.

Climbing right to the top of everything with no fear at all.

Park Play - Wk60

Don’t you wish sometimes you could just go inside their little minds and know what is going on in there.

You might take a random shot like the one below, then look at it and say to yourself “I wonder what she was thinking when that photo was taken” of course we are never going to know but it gets you thinking all the same.

A penny for your thoughts - I wonder what she was thinking.

Happy Birthday Little One, you will still always be our baby.

Sorry that it didn’t turn out to be the greatest birthday, but at least you are little and didn’t really know what was going on.

The story is that Little Misses Daddy was running for the train on the way home from work on Friday night and he tripped and broke his leg, he ended up in emergency on the night of little miss’ birthday. Her birthday party with family was canceled on the Saturday night as Daddy was still in hospital.  We will make up for it next year.

In hospital with Daddy

Daddy’s broken leg… ouch!

It has taken a while but we have finally done it. The little Man is still sleeping in our bed until I go to bed and then I put  him back in his own bed. But I think that we should be able to get him to start in his own bed tomorrow night, we will just have to see how it goes.

Daddy sits just inside the door and she stays in her bed and just goes off to sleep instead of the constant getting up and down and sleeping in a ball on the floor.

She still hasn’t worked out how to stay under her covers, but I am sure that will come with time. She screams out at about 3am, I am woken with a start and get up to find her on top of her covers, complaining that she is cold, well it is no wonder, I would be cold if I was on the top of my covers too. So I put her back and snuggle her back under the covers and then that is usually it until the morning.

Lets just cross our fingers and hope that it is it for now. I know that we are going to get teething issues soon, so it is a never ending cycle, but a fun one.

Last night was amusing, we started off with the normal not wanting to sleep. Put the little man in our bed to sleep just in case. We just carried on with the putting back into bed routine. It finally went quiet around 8.20pm, 22 times of putting her back. We breathed a sigh of relief, finally she had gone quiet.

We were sitting there thinking, we should just leave her for a few more minutes, in case she is not asleep. So this is what we did. We then both took a peek in her bedroom a bit later on to see if she was ok.

This is what we found

The silly little thing had decided to get out of bed and go to sleep in the middle of the floor, curled up in a ball, she was sound asleep. Oh dear!, who could say that the floor was more comfortable than your beautiful warm, cozy bed. Apparently Little Miss thinks so. We just picked her up and put her into bed and didn’t hear another thing out of her until the morning.

Tonight she was so tired that she fell asleep at 6.15pm in the car on the way home from Nana & Pop’s house, I was able to just transfer her from the car to her bed, she is still sound asleep.

It just makes me want to scream, I am sure anyone that is or has been a Mum has felt this feeling. Don’t get me wrong I love them both to death, and I wouldn’t hurt them in any way. It is just a feeling. Being a parent is hard work let me tell you.

This is what has made me so cranky

Little Miss has decided that all of a sudden we are not going to go to sleep when it is sleep time. It is funny how children change so much as they grow. Little Miss was a great sleeper as a baby and the little Man wasn’t. Now Little Miss is a dreadful first going to sleep and the Little Man is a great. I wish they could both be great.

We do all the normal routine things that you read about in books with your children when they go to bed. Most of the books that you read will tell you to make bedtime the same every night. We have a saying in our house, Milk, Teeth, Book, Bed. The Little Man doesn’t seem to, and has never had a issue with it, he is now sleeping soundly.

Little Miss on the other hand, has a different idea. It started about 4 nights ago, she decided that she didn’t want to go to sleep, she had a bit of a cry and a thrash about, but that was about it. Then the night after that it was a little worse she kept getting out of bed, so I tried putting her back, but she just kept getting out, so I had to sit on her bed and pat her, I didn’t want her to wake the little man (they share a room) eventually she went off to sleep.

Then it just gets worse, last night, the little man was staying with the grandparents, we thought that we would just be persistent and keep putting her back in her bed, every time she got out. It took 61 times to put her back, finally she went to sleep at 8.45pm, bed time is usually 7pm.

Tonight hasn’t been much better, I ended up putting the little man in my bed so he could get some sleep, she finally went to sleep at 8.50pm after the 62nd time I put her back into bed, I also had to sit on the end of the bed, but I didn’t pat this time though.

I have all my fingers and toes crossed that this is not going to happen tomorrow night, but I have my doubts unfortunately.

I initially just intended the little man to have his hair cut, he hates it when it starts to get in his eyes, so it is straight of to the hair dresser to have a trim. Well I had little miss with me and asked the lady what she thought, if she thought that it was time for her to have a cut.

Well next thing I knew she was sitting in the chair having her first hair cut. She sat very still, which was amazing, I thought that it was going to be much worse and that she wouldn’t sit still at all. The lady only cut a small amount from the ends and just did a general tidy, she said that it was better to cut the baby hair off while she was still young, then when she is about 4 she will have beautiful hair, instead of scraggly baby hair ends.

When asking Little Miss if she liked having her hair cut, she said “fun”.

I am glad that she had it cut, it does look really cute and she really did need it, Mum was just a bit reluctant to go near her lovely curls with a pair of scissors. But I have vowed in the past never to cut my childs hair after we cut the little mans, lets say his fringe was not very straight.

I had to take the pictures today while she was eating lunch, yes while she was sitting still for a few seconds.

Yes I did save a few of her curls to put in her memory book. Again a second child thing, I have done way more to the little Mans book than I have to poor Little Miss. I am a second child so I know what it is like.

Little Man is doing really well now, and has managed to make it past the terrible twos/threes stage and is slowly making it over the top to the hill.

Little Miss is a totally different story, I never realised how different boys and girls really are until you have one of each.

Little Miss was a very plasid and gentle baby, she would sleep really well and just goo and gaa like a good little baby, we really thought that she was going to be such a little gem. Well didn’t that change as she has grown up a bit, she is a bit of a monster child. Lucky she is cute!. (of course she has her good moments don’t they all)

I am just going to jot down a couple of my dislikes and frustrations with her at the moment, if anyone out there is struggling with the same thing, talk to me. Have you found anything that works?

Love affair with the toilet

Not such a great thing to have a love affair with, but little miss seems to have one. I thought great she is going to be so easy to toilet train but this is how it goes.

We must get the urge “Wee wee, toilet (said only how she can)”, or “Poo” pointing to the bathroom. Off we go to the toilet and we lift the lid. “No” shutting the lid, walking out of the bathroom. 5 mins later. “Poo” this time we have taken pants and nappy off, so running to the bathroom with nothing on, great what if she really does need to go. I lift her on the toilet, ” No, off” , I say “you have to stay on there longer than that”, “no off”.

So it goes on, sometimes we get the bathroom and she then sees her toothbrush and wants to brush her teeth, forgetting about the whole reason we came to the bathroom for. “brush, brush”.

Sleeping or rather not wanting to

This is both day sleeps and night time sleeps, some days she will just go off with out and issue, but a majority of the time, it ends in tears and arguements.

I really believe that routine works, and it always has with the little man. So we go through all the normal bed time routines. Glass of milk, teeth, book, wee, nappy and bed. Some nights it works a treat, but at the moment it seems not to be working very well at all.

I put them in to bed, kiss and tuck them in, say goodnight, walk out. Then is starts, she throws teddy out of the bed and calls out ” Uh-Oh, Mummy, teddy”, I just go in, no eye contact, don’t say a word, pick up teddy and walk out. Now this can go on for about an hour, every say 5 or so mins sometimes less. She calls out at the top of her voice, not a little quiet voice.

The little man used to always need to go to the toilet, or want a drink. But we got to the stage where you just stand at the door and say sleep time, and he would just go off to sleep. we have tried all of that with the little miss, but she just gets distressed because teddy or blankie are on the floor.

Must explain also that the little man shares a bedroom with little miss, so he is trying to go to sleep himself while all of this is going on. I feel so sorry for him, the other night she was driving me crazy so I put him in my bed, but then he just started calling out, so I just ended up lying on the floor in the middle of the room and they both eventually went off to sleep.

Finally