First the rant, well plea for help really. Davies has always been in the main a pretty good sleeper. Always in bed for 7 and generally asleep by 8, through the night with very odd exceptions and not too early a riser. Scarlett is a waking nightmare (which is just as well as we don’t get enough sleep to have the dreaming variety!) She is walking asleep by about 6.30pm almost regardless of a daytime nap or not but very rarely goes through the night. She almost always wakes sometime between 2 and 4am and ends up in our bed where she takes around an hour to settle herself down, sort out sending us downstairs for juice, decide which of us she is going to be mainly kicking in the head and whose head she will be mostly laying on top of. Thought that was as bad as it was gonna get but she has suddenly started appearing in the lounge earlier and earlier – tonight she was here by 9pm after just two hours sleep. She is utterly charming, sitting, giggling, cuddling and generally making the most of having both parents to herself without Davies – something she simply never gets normally. And I just want her to be asleep in her bed letting us have our few hours of an evening together without children. And I don’t know what to do. She is not seemingly suffering from not having these hours sleep she is missing out on, she is happy enough all the time, she just seems to wake up, decide its more fun in the lounge with Mummy and Daddy and come on in to join the party – argh! I know its not forever, and I know there will be years and years to come when she spends her time holed up in her room and we would love her to come and choose to spend time with us, but I really just want to drink my wine and eat my dinner and watch stuff on tv without worrying about whether the content is suitable for her or not. No solutions I am sure, well probably none we would be comfortable with carrying out so I guess she’ll have to grow out of it…
So to the rest of the day, and a very pleasant one it has been too – up and out for just after 9am to take the car to a man to check whether the exhaust did need work (which is what the garage told us when they MOTd it) and it doesn’t, which is good. Over to Toys R Us to try and sort out Scarlett’s birthday pressies from Uncle Frazer (probably a garden playhouse) and a ‘main’ pressie from us, which is still being debated as I want to get her a Scarlett sized little girl doll – I had one when I was two and I know I am being romantic – and yes she did pretty much ignore it in Toys R Us but I am sure when she has one in her bedroom at home away from all the other hundreds of toys, that she can swap clothes with etc she will love it (won’t she?!).
Then home for a quick picnic collection and over to Chris and Julie’s for the afternoon. They had their real fire lit, the kids all played really nicely, we drunk lots of tea, talked about Christmas, decorations and other festive stuff and enjoyed being in the snug warmth while the rain lashed the windows 🙂
Tomorrow my parents are coming over for the day including dinner which they are thoughtfully providing the beef for and Mum and I are going to collect Davies’ Peter pan island thingy which I have tracked down and reserved at Argos in Brighton.
Getting bored of myself now, I’m sure there was more I was going to write but I think my posts are probably more interesting when I am having a go about something so I will work harder on getting hacked off about something tomorrow 🙂
No solutions, and not sure I can even re-assure you it will get better. Hannah doesn’t come through after we’ve all settled down for the night, thank god, but will often still be awake and liable to appear till midinght, which scuppers anything but the most legal forms of relaxtion; post watershed TV which will inevitably give her nightmares; LI; and general relaxation. She is also usually on the go again by 5.30ish. Again, she won’t come through till she hears us up, but LI and me getting any morning work done is a challenge at that end of the day as well.