Unfortunately my day started a little too close to 5 am for me to be comfortably happy with it.
Nic brought the little “Rawring” dinosaur bug down to see if he’d settle in our bed.
No such luck, when I rolled over I was greeted by a beaming smile on Eli’s little elf like face and received a happy exclamation of
“heyo”
How could I possibly be grumpy at that?
It’s a wonderful feeling to be so loved by your baby no matter what ungodly hour it is.
Admittedly, although not cross at my early riser, I was very cranky with the world for the fact that I was up so early and not tucked in all nice and cosy and warm on my side of the bed.
So knowing that my best friend Bec, back in Katherine was still hard at work on her overnight I rang her and was able to enjoy a nice chat while she watched the lunar eclipse and soothed my ruffled spirits, leaving me much more content but missing the Northern Territory something chronic.
After a very early breakfast, Eli bug and I climbed the stairs to his playroom, I moved his extensive collection of little people toys into his room and lay down on his dinosaur toddler bed and watched him play, being made to join in at times with grunts of “an dis an dis, want dis”
Eli bug does not self settle for his day nap (he only has the one)
Maybe due to lazyness on my part I haven’t pushed the issue of daytime settling, or it may self preservation of what sanity I do have left.
Usually settling Eli into sleep for his day nap doesn’t take long if he is caught at the right time (usually between 10 and 11)
But, as my belly is growing ever rounder so too are my problems getting him to sleep.
As I’m rocking one little boy in my arms, I have the other little boy in my belly kicking furiously and poor Eli keeps opening one eye slowly and raising his eyebrows as if to say that he knows I’m poking him and can I please desist at once!
Today this was taken to a whole other level.
Fyn, the worm baby in my belly, gave poor Eli such a hard kick in his side that immediately Elis eyes snapped wide open.
He furiously ripped his dummy out, gave me daggers with his frowning sleepy eyes and loudly and firmly told me
“DONT”
I was speechless!
And so after a morning of yawns, trying to sneak my eyes shut for a few minutes here and there curled up on a toddler bed.
Dancing to the wiggles with my musical child and reading animals and animal sounds while he soaked it all in like a cute shaped sponge, I finally have him down for a nap and Im off for one myself!
Have a good rest to other sleep deprived out there
xo
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