As previously mentioned I have five children. My oldest is 9 & my youngest is 9 months.
Some nights, like tonight I swear they think I am a ping pong ball.
My oldest *needs* me when going to bed. He has trouble switching off & settling in for the night. So I do spend a bit of time back & forth from his bed side.
But because of this, the others do miss out on that level of attention from me at bed time. Their dad is good at picking up the slack in this area though. But on occasion he himself is out of sorts & heads to bed as soon as he can. So tonight everyone wanted a bit of Mum. It went like this:
Some nights, like tonight I swear they think I am a ping pong ball.
My oldest *needs* me when going to bed. He has trouble switching off & settling in for the night. So I do spend a bit of time back & forth from his bed side.
But because of this, the others do miss out on that level of attention from me at bed time. Their dad is good at picking up the slack in this area though. But on occasion he himself is out of sorts & heads to bed as soon as he can. So tonight everyone wanted a bit of Mum. It went like this:
I would sit thinking ahhhh.. Ok time to load my 365 project photo...Muuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm....
Get up, go tuck in the Princess..
Walk out.. half way out the door ... *very muffled* muuummm, can you sleep with me?
From my 2nd oldest G. No mate, Im not ready for bed yet, I will come check on you again soon.
As I walk out back down the hallway past E's room.. Mummm.. Yes Mate? Can you get me the heat pack?
Ok.. go heat that up.
All the while Mr I (3yr old) has been back & forth taking crackers from the kitchen in to his bed. Each time I seen him I would tell him to get back into bed!
So heat pack is in place.
Mr I, {Insert words/sounds only a mother can decipher} which translates to Muuuuummmmmm can I sleep in your bed? No Sleep in Iains bed not Mums bed.. {more gibberish} Mum sleep here while patting his pillow..
No buddy, Mum sleeps in Mums bed.. AWWWWWWWWWWWW No Mums bed!
So I sit down & sing 1 song.. Do your ears hang low do they wobble too & ..... Mr I interrupts with request of a song change to incy wincy spider..
MUUUUUMMMMMMMM CAN YOU GET MY PONY?! MUMMM MUUUUMM MUM!
Get up, go tuck in the Princess..
Walk out.. half way out the door ... *very muffled* muuummm, can you sleep with me?
From my 2nd oldest G. No mate, Im not ready for bed yet, I will come check on you again soon.
As I walk out back down the hallway past E's room.. Mummm.. Yes Mate? Can you get me the heat pack?
Ok.. go heat that up.
All the while Mr I (3yr old) has been back & forth taking crackers from the kitchen in to his bed. Each time I seen him I would tell him to get back into bed!
So heat pack is in place.
Mr I, {Insert words/sounds only a mother can decipher} which translates to Muuuuummmmmm can I sleep in your bed? No Sleep in Iains bed not Mums bed.. {more gibberish} Mum sleep here while patting his pillow..
No buddy, Mum sleeps in Mums bed.. AWWWWWWWWWWWW No Mums bed!
So I sit down & sing 1 song.. Do your ears hang low do they wobble too & ..... Mr I interrupts with request of a song change to incy wincy spider..
MUUUUUMMMMMMMM CAN YOU GET MY PONY?! MUMMM MUUUUMM MUM!
shhhhhhh you will wake Rohan! What did you want? .. goes & gets pony & returns it to the Princess.. Now go to sleep!
Walks away back down the hall way.... Mum can you get Honey (the cat)..
Goes and finds the cat..
MEOW MEOW MEOW... Translation Mumm, can you get me some bikkies so I can eat them in E's bed before I snuggle in with him for the night & so I can wake you up at 4 am wanting to go out again?
The last request I heard was from Mr I wanting his train drink (sippy cup with thomas the tank on it).. But I knew if I just said Ok & did not return he would fall asleep. Which he did finally. All finally asleep around 10.30 pm..
Not a bad night! No screaming at least lol.
And no one woke the baby up even though G did go into my room a couple of times to ask to sleep with Daddy.
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