G, E will be a shocker till the day she dies LOL. Way to many of her personality genes came from her fathers side of the family. MIL reckons she is so much like her MIL (DH's grandmother) and she used to call her the Devil Incarnate, so there isn't much hope for E. However I reckon had E been an only child she would be easier to handle. And I'm used to parenting her now, so she does seem easier to manage kwim? If you are entering L into Kinder for an actual Kinder program that will follow onto school, I'm pretty sure they have to take him. that is going by threads I've seen on here anyway.

Cass, I can look the little bugger square in the eye and then snap their neck myself LOL. We've got some atm too, it's just that time of year that they tend to come inside and I have one persistent little bugger who wont be so gracious as to get into the trap, so we have stare-downs late at night. If you just put the poison in the roof cavity, your pets will be fine. We put poison in the roof for the rats all the time and we've not had a problem with our dog at all. Traps in the roof would be a PITA because you would have to check and reset them everyday so someone would have to be prepared to be up there every day. You'd be best to get DH up there during the day to see if he can see any signs of daylight and block where they could be getting in. Mice only need a gap of 8mm to get into your house. You can get the traps like a box, where they can get in but they aren't killed so you can release them again. I set my old faithful traps behind the lounges in the loungeroom, or down behind the stove - depends on where they are hanging out as to where I put the traps. The kids have never worried about touching them and I have them far enough out of reach anyway so they can't get to them. We have even had poison in the house too - under the stove and fridge and again never had a problem with the kids, but if you have inside pets it wouldn't be a great idea.

Arte, I hope your trip away goes off without a hitch so you can keep your plans. I love the idea of it. I'm hoping to get to Floriade again this year on my own, possibly with just A. I love getting away and having a weekend to myself.

Suz, that's great that nighttimes are a bit better in your house now Makes a huge difference to how you feel at the end of the day too I reckon. Uni is easy to manage atm - I have 3 at school already so only A at home during the week so he's easy to work around. I'm hoping to go fulltime once he is at school too.

Oh, I brought one of those 'wee targets' today to put on the toilet bowl for A. I'm hoping that a bit of fun will increase his awareness of the whole TT caper. Not standing to wee was a big thing we had to deal with when L was TT, and he was 5.5 before he was confident enough to stand up to wee. He had an incident while he was trying to do it once and it really upset and embarrassed him, so he preferred to sit - safer that way LOL.