21st July 2017

I'm sure most parents have a bed time routine but ours includes high pitched screaming at a level only dogs can hear (from the 3 year old not me!) Followed by some well practiced weight lifting exercise to get 3 year old upstairs, takes several attempts. Then once upstairs, 5 minutes of 3 year old sitting on bathroom floor with eyes like 'Puss in Boots from Shrek' whilst wailing he doesn't want to go to bed and dribbling like a blood hound over the floor!

It can take just as long to get 7 year old to bed only with different challenges. For example if 7 year old has had a banana after dinner, not only does she eat it like an animal she then proceedes to behave like one! It has almost the same affect as if she'd had a whole tube of blue Smarties!  As strange as this next sentence is, on some of these occasions she has reminded me of the scene in Blackadder the Third when Blackadder accidentally poisons Smedley with a suicide pill!!  The affects of the pill involve leaping around in a crazy manner then jumping in a a corner and slumping to the ground. Affects of above mentioned banana/Smarties are identical only without the tragic end!!

However this evening 7 year old is quite calm and as we watch the start of 'Legally Blonde' and I explain the sometimes people get upset with each other, she makes a remark relating to 'A Midsummer Nights Dream!' Suddenly I'm not feeling like the adult in the room!

Sleep well everyone!! Xx