Haylie and Me

Since Caitlyn started school this term Haylie and I have been spending a lot of time together. She is my little buddy. Wherever I go, she goes.

 Most of the time she is pretty good and will go along with whatever I have going on that day. She will go to the shops quite happily, as long as she gets a treat! She likes to go and visit Grandma and our friend, Aurelia. She is happy to sit in the stroller while I go for a walk or play at the park while I run laps around the oval.

I think she also likes to have the whole house to herself. She gets to choose what is on TV and she gets to play in the girls room with their stuff. She gets the whole trampoline to herself, which she absolutely loves!

Even though she is very happy to have some time to herself she does get very excited when we go a pick up the kids from school. She loves to tell them what we did that day and join in with whatever they decide to do that afternoon.

Ever since Buzz and Lachlan went to America she has it in her head that her bedroom is scary and she wants to sleep in the girls room. Most nights she throws a tantrum at bedtime because she isn't allowed to sleep with the girls. We have thought of putting all the girls in one room, but to start with the rooms in this house just aren't big enough. Her bed wouldn't even fit in there and if it did they would have no room to play, walk or move! Secondly, the times that they have been allowed to sleep in the same room they talk and play and take forever to go to sleep.

One night, about a week ago, she got very upset at bed time. She had taken her little Dora fold out couch into the girls room with her pillow and blanket. But it was a school night and I didn't want to have to go in a tell them to go to sleep 50 times so I took it all back to her room and the screaming started. When she is like that the best thing to do is to just leave her. After about half an hour she finally fell asleep.

Later that night, after Buzz and I had gone to bed she woke up crying. She likes the door open, but Lachlan can't sleep with it open so he closes it when he goes to bed because she is always asleep by then. Then we usually open it a little bit and make sure the nightlight is on the the hallway. Anyway this night we must have forgotten to open her door so she got a bit upset. Buzz got up, opened her door and then left our door open as well so she felt closer to us. She was happy and went back to sleep, or so we thought!

Buzz gets up about 5:30 am and when he gets up he shuts their bedroom door so that they don't wake up. When he went to close it though he noticed that Haylie wasn't in her bed. Now she is an early riser but that was too early for her. He noticed that the girls bedroom door was open and there she was fast asleep. She must of gotten up and dragged her Dora couch and pillow and blanket around to the girls room and gone back to sleep!

I'll say one thing for her she is definitely determined. When she sets her mind to something there is no stopping her!

Oh, for all of you who are wondering, we still have one more day left for our bedroom challenge. So far the kids are doing great and have kept their bedrooms clean. They have also been much nicer to each other. If their rooms are clean at bedtime tomorrow night then we will be off to see the new Smurf movie this weekend!