sleep.....

I am so tired this morning.
and i just got a little nap too - oh how i dream of the days before children when i could sleep from 9pm - 11am without hesitation or interuption.

Mikey went to bed at 9pm - again he had a daytime nap. We were hoping that because it was an 11am nap hed be ok... but no, it still didn't see him going to bed till 9pm.

I went off to bed at 9:45 and finishing the night run around the house for bottles, cleaning, dishwasher etc...

this morning mikey came into our bed at 1am - at 4:30am I had to break free of the web of arms that kept trying to bring me back into my own bed, Adam had to wake up and console Mikey because mummy was getting up to feed the baby but it didn't last long and next thing i know Mikey was up and helping me feed Zoe.

So - shortly ater that because mikey screamed every time i insinuated that we were going back to either my bed or his bed, and i wanted to allow the rest of the house to sleep - Mikey and I turned on Iggle Piggle.. he had some toast and water and then some cheese crackers, and i unstacked the dishwasher, prepped their church snacks and boiled the jug to make my own brekky.... but then i got pulled back to him by sonic screaming and crying to sit with him on the couch watching the blue fluffy gumby immitation and the doll who has an inflateable skirt who is named after an accident.

at 7am i gave up, belle still wasn't awake to hold me to being up and awake and neither was Zoe so i went off to my bedroom with Mikey in tow and i went to sleep, thank the heavens, mikey followed suit! So Mikey and i got another 2hours sleep in, well he got 2 hours... again i was enveloped in little arms and a rock hard head against my own and found it very hard to sleep... but he got some shutteye and hopefully will not need anything else and will be tired enough by 7pm tonight to go to bed with his sisters.

I'm so tired, quite frustrated with the crying and screaming of the day so far and not keen on getting dressed up and trying to look fresh when i feel like crawling back into bed and sleeping for 1000 years. But... life goes on, i'm not the centre of the universe and there is a level of public appearance one must perform in order to create the illusion of normalcy.