Sleep! Who Needs It? August 6, 2007
Finn came in at about 2am saying he was hungry. I got up and gave him a cup of milk and a biscuit. Then he wanted to come into our bed for a cuddle, but I said no since it rarely goes well. I put him back in his own bed with a quick cuddle and turned his music on for him.
A short while later he was back in our room with his pillow, dummy and blankie bear. He got his cuddle in our bed and it didn’t go well. The boy just squirms too much. I took him back to his bed, put his music on again and hopped in with him. His bed is too small for it to be a comfortable experience so it wasn’t long before I shuffled back to the warmth of my own doona.
It seemed no time at all before Leila was awake and chatting. She wasn’t crying so I tried to ignore her. In the end Mark got up and gave her a bottle. I got to go back to sleep, for which I was very grateful. Unfortunately Mark didn’t. I hope he took his vitamins this morning.
Leila was up again at 6.30 and so was I. Now she’s heading back to bed again. Finn isn’t up yet so I’m tempted to take myself off for another snooze. I just know that, if I do that, Finn will get up just as I’m getting settled. So I will stay up and try to cultivate a pleasant attitude.
This blog entry has been brought to you by the dwarves Sleepy, Dopey and Grumpy.
Hopefully you fare ok with two sometimes sleepy kids. I did take a Vitamin C and it was all I could do to resist a Scotch.
As it turned out Finn did get up as soon as Leila went to bed.
The morning has gone quite well so far. Finn and I spent some time outside cleaning up dog poo and pottering around while Leila slept. Now Leila is talking to her mobile and Finn & I are playing on the computers.