A funky sleep and St Andrews day

I managed to get to bed at a good time last night. I worked on my eldest sons kilt before getting to sleep early. Thankfully the younglings cooperated and I get a really funky sleep. I felt so much better for it. I do have a little cold but so much better than yesterday.

Today being St. Andrews day I got my eldest dressed up for nursery as they had a tartan day. I thought more would also be dressed up but he was one of only two in the nursery who was wearing a kilt. I thought he looked really funky and he got some compliments.




I did not think about getting some haggis in though but I will have to have some next week. I will have to see if I can get a vegetarian one when I do my next food order.

My eldest has been in a strange mood today though. He has been really hyperactive. He was so at nursery. He was hitting my stepdaughter when she cam around and he was generally being rough. When he has his bath at night I sit with him in the room but I do my best to make that his wind down time. It helped a lot tonight and while he did not settle off strait away he did not do too badly. Hopefully he will be better tomorrow.

I am also going to be changing the twins sleeping routine soon. I am not too sure what I am going to do but I am going to do my best to make sure that they are both in bed for 9 at the latest so that I can get to relax a bit earlier and then get to bed earlier as well.

My eldest in a digger and my other son’s love of a potato head

They are building a new bungalow next to where we stay. The new owner is a nice guy. That is funky really as he will be next to us. They have got a digger on at the moment while they are stating things off. The builder mentioned about letting him have a shot in it. I did not really think he meant it until one day he let him have a go. He loved it and sat still with him while they did some digging together. Sadly the battery in my camera died before I was able to get any pictures. Thankfully today the guy let him go into the digger so that I could get some pictures of him. He even let him sit in the cabin on his own. He loved it and I love the look of concentration as he is sat there.



Last year for Christmas I got the younglings Star Wars potato heads for Christmas. My eldest got Darth Tater. My daughter got R2-Potatoo and my other son got Spud trooper. I kept the twins away as they were not really ready for them but recently they have enjoyed playing with them and my youngest son loves playing with it. He even took it into the bath with him and he went to sleep cuddling it last night. It is so cute seeing him walking around with it. My daughter also loves her R2-potatoo. Hehe the bits for them are getting scattered all over the place but they are having fun. I am going to get the twins Mr & Mrs potato heads for their birthday.

Sleeping getting better

The younglings are starting to sleep better now. My eldest while he woke once last night settled and slept until nearly 7. That is so funky for him. Also he is settling off to sleep well again. My other son woke up but thankfully the twins are really good at settling back to sleep if they wake up. Hopefully if they stay like that I will be able to start going to bed earlier as their sleeping will be more settled.

I have started taking my eldest out to the shops with me when I go out to get some bits in the afternoon. It has been fun actually and he has been really good around the shop. I think that it is a good idea for him to not only get the fresh air but to also get the walk to help tire him out. Today he took his Boba Fett with him and he made a woman in one of the shops laugh when she heard his constant stream of questions. Bless him he does like to ask questions.

Next door to us on a pilot of land they are building a new bungalow. I have seen the guy who owns it and who will be moving in. He is nice; it is nice to know that someone that we can get along with will be moving in.

Sadly his toilet training is still at a standstill. He had several accidents today. He wants to wear his Lord Vader costume. I have told him that if he can get through two days without having an accident that he can wear it. I had hoped that would help motivate him but sadly it has not worked.

I also have to start work on a kilt for my eldest. They are getting dressed in tartan at nursery this Friday for St Andrews day. The nursery kindly gave me some tartan that they had been given. It will be enough to make a kilt for him. I think it will be fun making it and working a style that will mean that he can get to the toilet without too many challenges.

Bad nights sleep and my eldest noticing difference skin colours

For the last few weeks my eldest has been very fickle with his sleeping. If he does not settle well at night then he wakes in the night and will not settle off again.

The last two nights the twins have also been a bit unsettled but at least they have settled off. My eldest has not been settling off well and has been waking in the night and not settling off. I really do not know what has been causing it but it has stopped me from not only getting a good sleep but also getting an early night. I do my best to go to bed once they have gone through their unsettled period. Though sadly due to my eldest not settling off back to sleep I have ended up letting him come into bed with us, as I have been so tired. I have been getting to sleep about 3am for the last two days. I slept in later than I had wanted but I obviously needed the sleep. Thankfully I was able to catch up with my morning schedule and this was one of the times when I have been thankful that my eldest goes to afternoon nursery.

It was amusing though last night. I have been reading Star Wars books to my eldest at night and he has taken to the films as well so he is getting to know the characters. Last night he turned around and said to me ‘Lando is a chocolate man’ It is the first time that he has noticed differences in skin colour. I just told him that Lando is not a chocolate man but a black man.

Unfortunately my eldest is pretty much back to square one regarding his toilet training. He is back to having accidents to it looks like taking his nighttime nappy off will be delayed again.

The rain has been a bit mad recently. It has not helped having so much rain in the summer. This has meant that even though the rain has not been that heavy it has meant that there is a lot of water around. the farmers fields are putting a lot of water out through that draining system. The stream through the wood is very high and the stream that goes through the town is also high at the moment. Hopefully the rain will stop soon.

The things they say and I am very happy with my eldest

This did not happen today but I have just remembered it. I walk across a wooded area to take my eldest to nursery. As it is autumn there are a lot of leaves on the floor and he likes to pick them up. One time he stopped and was crouched on the floor and I went up to him and I heard him say ‘got to find a leaf’ this was when he was standing in an inch deep pile of leaves. It was very cute.

At nursery today they made homemade soup. They got the younglings to help with the cooking of it and found an interesting way of getting rid of the peeling. My eldest is very fussy at home but when I asked the nursery teacher if he was the one child who did not like it she told me that he was not and that he had in fact had two plates of it. I was so pleased that he did. It is good to know that he will eat it.

After nursery I was in the park with him and I had a funky chat with one of the other mums from the nursery. It was nice to chat to her, as I normally do not get the opportunity to chat to anyone.

Mum spoke to me during the day as well. She has invited me to go to Ypres next year for the wart remembrance. I will go. I know this will sound bad I will not go for the war remembrance but as I think it will be the last time that I will get to get away with my mum, dad and brother. It is not that I do not think about the sacrifice that they made and I am very grateful for what they did it is just that I am not one for going to the parades.

Then at night I kept myself busy by downloading some music for my stepdaughter. We have got her a MP4 player for her birthday at the end of the month) so I thought it would be nice to put some music on for her. I had fun thinking of what she likes and finding the music.

I have been a busy bunny today.

I do not want to tempt fate but I think we have reached a turning point with my eldests toilet training

Last night when I was putting my eldest to bed he asked for me to take his nappy off. I told him that if he wants me to take of his nighttime nappy then he needs to make sure that he has no accidents for the next week before I do so. It is good that he has asked and today he has made a funky start. He was good at nursery and at the time when he usually has accidents he was funky. He asked again to have his nappy off again but I told him again about staying dry. I think he has got it though (fingerscrossed)

I have ordered a plastic sheet for his bed in case he has any accidents when he does get his bedtime nappy off.

I do not know what is the matter with my eldest. He has not been sleeping well at all at the moment. He keeps waking in the night and not settling. I hope that he gets back to normal soon as I do not want him to get sued to sleeping in our bed.

I was annoyed at lunchtime though as last Wednesday I got a card saying that someone tried to deliver a parcel but I was not in. They tried again the next day but I was out again. I phoned the phone number to tell them to deliver to the local post office instead but I was not happy that I did not actually speak to anyone. I kept trying the local post office and today after they told me nothing had been delivered I found a different number and spoke to someone. They told me that it was at a post office but not the one that I asked it to go to. Next time this happens I will phone the number that I phoned today. I went over to get the parcel and of course it was big and heavy. Not fun when I had a mil up and down hills to go. Thankfully one of my friend drove past and took the package home for me (he did not have room for my eldest as I had to collect him after I had got the parcel)

The twins were so cute tonight. I was just getting their bedtime bottle ready and they were playing nicely in the floor. It is so sweet seeing them interact together. At least they are settling off nicely and sleeping well (or if they wake in the night they do not get upset and settle back to sleep) We will get there though with our eldest.

Teaching my eldest to clean his room

I have managed to find out what it was that my eldest was saying that was bad. He was saying flipping hell. So all we have to do is get him to say flipping heck instead. I am so glad it was not worse than that.

He has been better at nursery this week. I have been so careful with his diet and I even cut down the amount of sugar in his porridge. He still ate it so that is funky.

After I got back from nursery I decided to take the twins out with me and as DS1 wanted to come as well. He was really good when I was out and he did as he was told strait away. It made the trip so much easier. It was nice to get out with all of my younglings.

When I got back as Devil boy was not feeling well they all sat nicely in their chairs while I got the dinner ready.

After dinner and after I had put away the washing I took DS1 through to his room to get him to clean up with me. It is about time that he learnt how to clean his room at the end of the day as there will come a time when he will have to do that himself (I am not going to do it for him until he leaves)

Mum and dad are away and been to a party today

Mum and dad are back down to England today. It has been really funky to see them again and I am looking forward to seeing theme again in the spring. They said that they will stay for a bit longer that time so that will be funky.

In the afternoon I took DS1 to a party that he had been invited to by one of the girls at the nursery that he goes to. It is awkward to get to though by public transport so I asked Devil boys dad to take us there. He was also able to bring us back as well so that made things so much easier.

It was really funky. I think that if I have a party for any of my younglings I will have it there. You just need to pay for it and they do the rest. I must admit that I have been put off organising a party, as I am not very good at getting them sorted out.

What they did was let them run about and play for an hour before taking them into a room to play some party games before getting something to eat (I sat in the main section for that so I was able to relax and talk to my friends for a bit) We both really enjoyed it. He unfortunately had an accident in his costume later on (the children were asked to wear their Halloween costumes to the party) I am really looking forward to him being able to take himself to the toilet again without having accidents.

Thankfully there have not been many fireworks at all set off but as they were being set off at the same time that DS1 went to bed he did not settle off well. It was not that he was scared (he did not want to be left alone in the bathroom when he was in the bath, even though he denied that they scared him) but he wanted to go out and see the fireworks. I knew that we would not be able to see them so he was not happy. Thankfully he settled off in the end. Next year I will be able to take all of the younglings to a firework display.

I went to mum and dads again for a meal today

Today has been a funky day. It started off well when I went to homestart for the first time since DS1 went back to nursery. We are doing a course at the moment and I asked to be a guinea pig today to get made up with nighttime make up. I thought it looked funky so I think I will get some new makeup and maybe wear it once a week.

After I got home I have to rush over to get DS1 from nursery. Sadly the teacher told me that he was messing about today and swearing. I have not been swearing and Devil boy has told me that he has been good as well. I have not heard DS1 swear for a while sop maybe he got it from someone from nursery this time. I told him that tomorrow he has to be good and not swear.

Mum came over shortly after I got home and took us over to where she is staying at the moment. When we got there we went out to the local park with the younglings. It was very sweet as the twins got to walk down the street for the first time. They really enjoyed it and they all enjoyed it at the park. It was nice getting out with them.

Dinner was not as stressful as it was a buffet dinner and the younglings ate more of it than before. I think that they gave them too much cake and biscuits for desert as DS1 started to get hyperactive toward the end. Thankfully it happened at the time that we needed to take him home and thankfully there was no problem getting him settled off to sleep. Thankfully this does not happen too often so it is not a problem.

It is strange though as I have got heartburn again. I got it the last time that I went to mum and dads for dinner. There must be something that I am eating that does not agree with me. While I am not in pain I am in a lot of discomfort.

Mum is taking me out food shopping tomorrow and that will be the last time I will see them before they go back as sadly they will not have the time to visit on the Saturday. Thankfully they said that when they next come up in the spring they will stay for longer.