Bugger about Dp Lulu. Maybe that's what is stirring her up and she's getting conflicting messages then about what is acceptable at night time - like she thinks it's OK to be loud when Dad is loud kwim? Jodie has some super ideas too.

Also, what time *ideally* would you like to see them into bed? maybe it's a bit early for them? A friend of mine had shocking issues with her eldest trying to get him to go to bed, but she was putting him to bed at 6pm - as well as forcing (yep, I did mean force) him to have 2 day sleeps and would complain about his terrible sleeping habits to anyone that would listen but the poor kid just wasn't tired! She finally worked out that if she put him to bed 2 hours later and dropped a day sleep (mind you he was 3!) that he went down for both his arvo and his bedtime sleep without a fuss.