Can I get some sleep PLEASE!

I had THE worst sleep last night (if you could say I even got any sleep) - thanks to my 3 children!

I was soo tired all yesterday & strictly told myself I'd have an early night - none of this staying up til after 10pm on the net (mostly on OB). So 9pm rolled around & I was going off to bed, but DH was watching Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader (american version) & said it was where one guy won the 1 million. So I thought I'd stay up & watch it. Well, it wasn't that one at all! So went to bed after 9:30pm, only to toss & turn trying to get comfy.

I think I drifted off to sleep, only to be woken by Gia coming into our bed. I got up & put her back into her own bed then tried going back to sleep. Took a while, but think I managed too, only to once again have Gia coming into our bed - around midnight I'm thinking. I left her there, tried going back to sleep. Next thing Rico is standing next to the bed saying he needed another nappy on - he'd wet his one. So, put Rico's nappy on (note to self: must buy pull-ups that he can put on himself!) then he goes off back to bed. Again, go back to sleep to then hear Rico coughing outside our door. GRRRRRR! By this time I'm also getting fed-up with Gia's feet being in my back. I get up to see what Rico's deal is - he quickly walks back to his room & gets into bed. I tuck him in & decide it's time for me to try getting some sleep on the couch. I set up the couch & then hear Rico crying from his bedroom. I call out for him to GO TO SLEEP!! Silence. It's around 1am. I then think how glad I am that Jett sleeps through the night. Next thing, Gia has come out of our room & wants to sleep on the couch with me - NO WAY! Put her back in our bed (i'd grabbed the blankets off her bed for me on the couch). Then Rico is standing in the hallway - GO BACK TO BED RICO!! I call out. I'm beside myself now - 1:40am - NO friggin sleep!

THEN! I hear Jett making his "I want a feed" snuffly noises. Dammit - of all nights he decides to wake! I leave him, HOPING he'll go back to sleep - no such luck. He starts to cry after about 10 mins. I get him up & feed him one side, put him back to bed. I go back to the couch & FINALLY manage to get into a nice deep sleep. But it's not to be for long - Jett wakes AGAIN! It's 4:30am - only been asleep 1.5 hrs. I get him up & feed him on the couch. Then I hear Dh come out of our room carrying Gia - he walks past me saying she's snoring in his ear. I tell him I have her blankets. He puts her in bed with Rico (he has a queen sz bed). He then goes to the toilet & comes back out & asks if I want to watch a movie!! HAHA - ummm, NO! I say I've had no sleep - need to get some. It's 5am & Jett is back in bed, Gia's outta our bed, so I go back into it. Yay - finally I can get another couple of hours sleep. Jett wakes at 7:20am. Rico & Gia are up. The day begins!

WHAT A SH*T night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was beginning to wonder what I'd put in our dinner in order for all of us to keep waking up. For a start I couldn't get to sleep, I'm finding my bed "boring" to sleep in at the moment - can't get comfy in it most nights. And it's not like I'm sleeping TOO much in it either! I think I'm missing our other bed. We're not using it as we're renting the IL's house in which they've left their furniture in it, so we sleep in their king-size bed which is comfy enough, but our queen bed was the best bed ever!!!

Awww how are things going later today?

Well I second the Iron that is a big thing for me when I am tired. But I have these wonder pills that put me too sleep so I just take one of them when I have sleep issues (like last week when I didn't sleep for 48 odd hours straight).

what is it with kids not sleeping - crap night at our house too. grrrr chilren! all i want for xmas is 8 hours straight sleep.

Oh yeah, I really need to start taking my iron again too, think it definitely helps! I'm silly & get lazy & don't take it, but my body is suffering for it.

OT but is that Jett in your pic? he looks so alert for such a wee bubba! whatta cutie!

Glad to hear you had a good nights sleep Italiah.

Glad to hear that last nights sleep was relatively unbroken. Makes all the difference when you can catch some zzzs doesn't it. Crikey, paintball - how did that go?

All 3 kids woke again last night - what is up with this?!!!

Gia came in twice before midnight, I put her in bed with Rico - she still came back into us. So back into her bed again with a strict telling off! Then Rico came in wanting another nappy put on Grrrr! Told him just to put undies on & GO BACK TO BED! Next thing he's in our room using our toilet saying he wanted to go poo's! Who goes poo's that time of the night?!

That was when Jett was waking - 1am! Too too early for him, but my boobs were REALLY full & so sore so didn't mind him waking. He then woke again at 5am, then 8am. And Gia ended up in our bed again around 5:30am.

Just as well the sun is shining today & it's SUNDAY!