it's ok pictonroad, he appears to be suffering from a touch of the runs, very much a once in a lifetime scenario. actually feel a bit sorry for the little fella...
Still, it's never nice being woken by the smell of a freshly laid dog egg!
How old do they have to be for this to happen?
10 and 8 🙄
LoCo - Memberanybody that had more than 4 hours for the last 3 days can F'#+ off
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Someone's overtired.....
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Went to bed at midnight, up at 7, slept very well. Mostly because our 4 year old daughter actually slept through the night, and didn't get into bed with us because she'd had a bad dream/has cold feet/can't find her bunny/doesn't like her bed/etc.
I also enjoy going into the kids room at 7am, flicking the light on and shaking them out of bed for school/pre-school.
Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...
...and this is one of the many reasons why we don't (and if I get my way, never will) have pets.
After a few rough night our gorgeous perfect 9 week old slept for 9 consecutive hours from 8PM - 5AM last night. At one point I had to check that she was still breathing.
I feel like a new man, however I do fully realise that this smugness has utterly doomed me for tonight and the next week or so.
I also enjoy going into the kids room at 7am, flicking the light on and shaking them out of bed for school/pre-school.
Ha yes! there are few things funnier than recently awoken, 'not quite on this planet yet' toddlers.
in bed last night by about 9.30 after core session at the run club, hot water bottle and trashy chick lit, and read my normal 2 pages before drowsy.
alarm woke me up at 6.45
lush.
To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning.
One of my pleasures in life when they were at home. Sandwich jnr still gets the occasional wake up when he's home to keep my hand in. 😈
I use misfit on my pebble. TBH it's vaguely interesting (and free) so I put it on to see but it doesn't really tell me a huge amount - I know how much I sleep and 'deep sleep' seems to vary from 3 to 4 hours mostly with the occassional 2.5ish hours but that doesn't particularly seem to relate to how I feel when I actually wake up.So in conclusion, I wouldn't go out of my way to get one specially.
Cheers nemesis, pretty much what I thought.
And lol @ torsoinlake: "Did you put it in a plastic bag and hang it off the lightshade?" 😀
To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning.
That's my wife's job, I'm off to work earlier. But I do get to enjoy this at the weekend - REVENGE! 😈
Put the boys down at 7pm, 2 glasses of wine and most of a big bag of crisps later was asleep by 10.30pm.
Minime Mk2 woke at 12am with teething issues (read screaming) and decided he wasn't going back to sleep. 5ml of Calpol, lots of hugs and a few choice words later he was finally back asleep at 1.30am.
4am he woke again and was put into bed with us as we couldn't face walking around the house comforting him, cue another 1 1/2 hours of wriggling feet / drooling and poking me in the face (the boy, not my wife). He went back to sleep at about 5.30.
Minime Mk1 then woke at 6.30 wanting a wee, which promptly woke Mk2 up again.
Not enjoying today TBH.
geoffj - MemberTo all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning. Waltz in at 7:30 switch the lights on, pull open the curtains, peel the duvets back and give them a gentle shake, just for good measure.
It ALMOST makes up for all those years of broken nights sleep
7:30am?!
You let them sleep in then 😀
I am also in this position now with my eldest, it never get's dull 
Someone's overtired.....
And emotional.... 😥
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our 2 year old still wakes in the night and gets up at 0430/0500 everyday quite often waking his older sister up too, he's going to make an amazing endurance racer as seems to need no sleep and still remains cheerful (unlike his father)
Still i was in the workshop by 0600 this morning so have done most of todays work already.
Was sick as a dog at about 7ish (but not as sick as fin25's dog!) and slept until 9pm. Was then wide awake and feeling like death until 2 am when my body pretty much shut down.
Awoken by two year old demanding to watch Baby Jake on the Kindle at 4am. So not much sleep but there are worse things in the world than sleep deprivation. Like a dog shitting in your bed.
I'm so glad I let the bed salesman talk me into getting a mattress protector...
Yeah, you've set the bar pretty high there Fin.
ick!
I thought I had a rough night but at least my animal didn;t cack the bed. He cacked in the hall and i stood in it.
Anyone want a free set of catlike slippers because that's what he going to end up being....
Struggling with kids? It doesn't last forever, just feels like it. My youngest took until she was 8 to sleep through the night 🙁
Nothing to see here, move a long please 😳
LoCo - MemberAnd emotional....
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Would you like a cuddle?
our 2 year old still wakes in the night and gets up at 0430/0500 everyday quite often waking his older sister up too, he's going to make an amazing endurance racer as seems to need no sleep and still remains cheerful (unlike his father)
Still i was in the workshop by 0600 this morning so have done most of todays work already.
Wait until they hit their teens, it's like waking the dead, very grumpy dead 😀
aaaahhhhhh man... FML
I did the school run, expecting to get home and potter about a bit and grab a restorative snooze before going to collect the kids, when my little sister turned up at 9.45am in a bit of a state..
She has a presentation for her english lit degree this afternoon and wanted my input (which actually translated to she needed to write the entire presentation today).. soo I've been subjected to an afternoon of unfathomable literary concepts, shaky precepts and linguistic gymnastics, liberally peppered with inane smalltalk.. all this bearing in mind that I don't even have an english GCSE
Summink to do with a walk in the city being likened to a subconscious narrative within the confines of a space metaphor, and a... errr...
In the last chittering monologue she has managed to cover - Her daughter's school play and the injustices surrounding that, leaving her uni mates, violence in the prison system, her husband's speeding fines, and getting a job in a homeless shelter.. all in the same sentence and all delivered without pause to draw breath..
I'd best go pick the kids up and head to the supermarket
No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.
Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.
Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.
Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!
No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.
Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.
Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!
TINAS' relationship posts are some of the best on here. I would LOVE to meet her. 😀
[quote=thisisnotaspoon ]No kids, no dogs, but trying to discuss bedtimes with the Miss'us is like talking to Kevin the Teenager.
Got to the point at 1am this morning where I had to go back into the living room and tell her that having MOTD at a volume that I could hear every word 3 rooms away and watching videos on her phone loud enough that I could hear them over MOTD was not acceptable.
Apparenlty it was then my fault she overslept this morning.
Apparently it's her right to go to bed when she wants and I can't tell her what to do. Which is true, but the lack of consideration for others is bordering on psycopathy!
earplugs.
TINAS, time for a new patio?
Hitting the usual afternoon lack of sleep related wall of tiredness here 🙁
TINAS' relationship posts are some of the best on here. I would LOVE to meet her.
I think I peaked with the "my one and only forray into domestic vilence" post.
I did explain to Philsconsequence (or was it TSY, or Jamie, I can't remember) that my relationship posts are a bit like trip advisor, I only ever post the bad stuff, 99% of my life's boring.
You can have my dog TINAS, once she's tasted one of his special Dutch ovens she'll never sleep in again...
Not really.
Our 10 week old baby had lulled us into a false sense of security by sleeping from 11-6 for the last few weeks but for the last two nights has decided that he's bored of that and waking up every few hours is more fun. Lying in bed after food and giggling, laughing and generally being noisy is fun too.
Unless you have to be up for work in a few hours time.
I sleep well if I can get through the 3am period when I'm prone to waking (regular phone calls at that time from a mate in the states screwed that bit of my internal clock for a while.). The last few months though I've found I have a sensitivity to the sound of the piledrivers doing the electrification work on the London/Bristol line.
They finished around where I was living and then I moved a few miles out of town to the country, just where they are starting to pass through.
Update: Good news for the folk of Didcot. With the trains stopped over Xmas they plan to be working 48hrs straight over Christmas Day/Boxing Day. I shall be elsewhere...
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Slept like a log until I woke up and realized one of the dogs had got under the covers and cacked himself...
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To all those suffering with young kids waking them up, I'm now revelling in the need to wake our kids up for school every morning. Waltz in at 7:30 switch the lights on, pull open the curtains, peel the duvets back and give them a gentle shake, just for good measure.It ALMOST makes up for all those years of broken nights sleep
This. Our two girls are now 8 and 9 and it's only been the last year where the tables have mysteriously turned and I'm no longer woken at random times between 4:30 and 6:30am by one/both of them asking for me to go downstairs with them to sort food / tv / lights / something to amuse them. Neither slept well from birth and now it's my turn 🙂
Like a log, thanks to 2 Tramadol 🙂
