MD - I can imagine that needle would have been huge!!

Arte - sorry no idea on the sleeping. Apparently my BIL was like that, he would refuse naps at day care and the carers would be really excited when they got him to have one (like every 3 months) and then he would be up to 11pm that night. He does sleep now though..... Awfully jealous of the 8am wake up though.

Clare - so excited for you, that is great news.

MM - have everything crossed for you in 2010!


Well we have been working on our reward chart here. She has been pretty good at day sleeps, although either DH or I has had one with her each day this week. She also gets a star if she stays in bed all night, not so much success with that one, this morning she wanted to hop in the spare room with me at 5am and I refused to let her so neither of us got any more sleep after that. If it was the occasional time I wouldn't mind, but she's been doing it for months and it's such a pain when we have people staying carrying her mattress through the house in the middle of the night so she can sleep on the floor in our room. At least this week we have progressed to a 5am request instead of the 11:30pm we had last week.

We have had a lot of success with bedtimes this week though. We straight out said that Mummy and Daddy would only come in one time each after we put her to bed. The first night there was a lot of whinging and we did one more visit after quite a while but since then she has been good. I went in twice tonight, but only because DH had gone to visit his parents so he missed bedtime.

K and I braved town this morning with all the crazy tourists. So many people!! We got a couple of things (including a special light that looks after her in her room), but the main thing was getting out of the house so DH and FIL could start the new fence! All the posts are concreted in now which is so good. Will finish it off when we get back from Canberra.

Going up there tomorrow for about a week. Hoping to get some quality kid free time, might check out the luxury movie seats. There isn't anything I really need at the shops, but I'm sure I will have a bit of a wander around. We are taking both K and her cousin swimming on Thurs morning which will be fun. Hoping to get some laps in while Granny swims with Miss K.

And everyone keep your fingers crossed for DH on Thursday - he is going to a car auction and we really want one of the cars. So hoping to be coming back in separate cars (I bags the one without the small whinging child....)