Just checking in ;-)

Does anyone else still have the menu visible on the right hand side of the text, or is it just me who seems to have "lost it"?

Oh yeah okay.. we all know I "lost it" long ago, but I'm referring to the links to older posts and to other blogs (which I must update to include some totally spiffing ones such as Wino's, Mamabeek's & Tam's).

Like so many things, it annoys me enough that I want to find time to investigate & fix, but the energy escapes me. Yep... you guessed it. Braeden still doesn't sleep through, and we have the battle of the "good grief child go back to SLEEP!" at least twice every night.

But in all this there is time to pause & giggle at the swapsies in roles.

Another of my (now dashed) expectations was that I would end up being the rule-setter with any child of mine, while his father blythely dashed rules into the ground by being that typical Saggitarius favour-seeker. Yep I know that's not fair, but that's how it can be seen by a micromanaging Leo on a headtrip :-) I had good reason for assuming this, because with our animals, clients, etc it's always ME who insists that shoes come off when inside, dogs obey commands, and parrots not bite. (Stop laughing)

Wayne breaks the rules with gay abandon. (Don't get me started about how good he is at arranging flowers, LOL..)

Instead it has turned out that I'm the one Braeden has wrapped around his littlest finger, and Wayne is the one who can say "No!" to baby and get away with it.

What's more galling is that baby actually seems to listen and obey. Like at 3am when Master Braeden is banging the bars of his cot with his dummy (not having a tin cup on hand) and chattering loudly in babybabble about wanting to get up and play.

Karl removes dummy and mutters "Go back to sleep honey, your mother is knackered"

Baby just ups the ante on the noise front to make up for loss of dummy.

Wayne (didn't know he was awake but then, how could he not be?) suddenly calls out "Braeden! Go to SLEEP!"

Silence.. then BABBLEBABBLEBABBLEBAHBAHBAH

"BRAEDEN! Go. To. Sleep!"

(silence.. then a few minutes later snores are softly heard)

If I tried it, the Killinchy Noise Machine would erupt into gale force ten wails.

It's not bloody fair ;-) I wonder if I could coax Wayne into being so consistent with the animals? (hah)