Saturday, December 27, 2014

I think Eli just constructed the longest sentence of his life thus far:  "Mama get up! Mama get up and sing five little monkeys!"

Spoiler alert:  I didn't.

In my defence, his dad was already up.

Friday, December 26, 2014

Shane offered to cut Eli's potatoes and he yelled "no no no!" so I said "Eli you really need to learn to be more polite".  He replies "please?"  Me: "yes please and thank you, but also when you say no say it nicely, say no not NO!"   So then he sits there eating his dinner and softly and politely saying to himself "No.  No daddy?  Cut it.  No daddy cut it. Yes."  Practice makes perfect but I bet we are back to no no no tomorrow! 
Another lovely Christmas!  That's two in a row now, pretty happy with that.

Eli was so excited on Christmas Eve, this is the first year he's really understood that something special is happening.   He pleaded with me to open presents, with his best puppy-dog eyes, but I stood firm.   So he went to bed instead!   Shane and I stayed up late chatting.

After midnight Eli started to sleep really restlessly, we're not sure whether it was nightmares or teething.  Shane got up for him several times but everytime Eli seemed to go straight back to sleep.  I eventually got up at 2:30 and as inevitably happens Eli decided to come into our bed.   He then ended up lying across the foot of our bed and fell asleep, rolled onto the floor with a crash.  Oops.  :-(  His screams then awoke Ziva for a feed so it was all very dramatic.   Got back to sleep at 3:30am.

So on Christmas morning we all awoke in our bed, but all Eli wanted to do was say hello to his baby sister and give her a cuddle, I couldn't convince him for ages to go open presents.  Finally he went to his bedroom and found the duplo train to open, he was so excited!   In fact he really loves all of his presents.    We had a wonderful day with friends, it was relaxed and stress-free.   Here's to many more like it!

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Napping napping

Eli has gone down for his nap and Ziva has still not woken up from hers (a couple of hours now) so I have some mama time!  Yay!  I never get Mama time as if Eli does happen to nap, Ziva has her feed / party time.

I'm so proud of Eli's sleeping now, we suggest it is time to sleep and he trots off to his room, lies in his bed with his dummy and bottle, says na-night and we shut the door and go.   Works for naptime or bedtime!   So amazing after a year and a half of rocking and night-time sleep battles.  Of course, now starting to work on number two so our evenings are not reclaimed - her sleep habits so far as the same as his were.   Can't get her into bed before 10pm, and then sleeps in our bed late in the mornings.   It gives Eli and I time to play together in the mornings though which is nice!  

I look forward to the day they are in the same routine.