4am: I have been kept awake by a 2 yr old trying out various laughs at 3am. I kid you not! Was just trying to settle Max back down to sleep (still trying *sigh*) I heard a loud “HA. HA. HAAAA…” followed by silence. Did I just imagine that?? No? how do I know for sure? Because about 3 seconds later it’s followed by “hmmm, nope. don’t like that……. HE. HE. HEEEE…… YESSSSSS”and repeat for about half an hour.

11am: He eventually went to sleep once I had gone in to tell him to, I think he may have an imaginary friend the way he was talking last night. Kept saying things like “I’m gonna tickle you”, “you need a drink too?” etc… either that or he is one smart cookie and was trying to sweet-talk me into doing things for him without actually sweet-talking me, if ya get what I mean!

He’s currently sitting opposite me at the PC playing his Gameboy… the bane of my life *sigh*
Max is sleeping - finally… it felt like he was up half the night being unsettled.

Oh, and we got one step closer to J sterilising the bottles properly… he washed them and put them in the steriliser, we’ve yet to get him to switch it on though, and I was still left having to make them up at all hours because he’d forgotten yet again. We will get there I’m sure… probably by around the time they no longer need sterilised anymore.

Ooooh and other news, I got my first bling! Thanks to Veronica for this cute lil badge

I’ll wear it with pride
I’m still looking into the self-hosting thingy, we shall see how it goes. It’s definitely something I’ll do at some point in the future… most likely as soon as I can, so watch this space.

Thanks J, now we all have the dreaded cold/flu thing you have… I know it’s all about giving in a relationship but really, you could have kept that one just for you honey!

My eyes just want to close, but there’s too much to be done, I may be unwell but so is everyone else so it’s up to me to take care of them all *sigh*.

The life of a SAHM, who’d change it eh? Most of the time I love it, but when you are hit with things like this it just gets me down a little bit - when do I get ’sick days’ when I can have a day off my work and just stay in bed? I don’t, because J can’t take time off to look after the kids when I’m ill, which is fair enough I suppose, but still - I’m cranky and have every right to whinge about my lack of days-off when I’m sick, it is my blog after all! lol

So… if I’m not around for the next couple of days you know why - I’m off sick. I’m going to get some cold medicine…maybe chocolate (ok definitely chocolate) and I might even see about watching a Disney movie once Zack’s up just to make myself feel a little better… *sniff*

My husband is a computer geek, sorry…Gamer is the preferred term. Now I knew this when I met him, and when I married him, and if I’m honest, I do love playing games on my pc ( World of Warcraft ) on our Wii ( My Sims ), yes OUR Wii… in fact I actually bought this console for US, although J seems to have a problem with saying it’s ours rather than his, as seems to be the case with anything computer-oriented in ur house, *groan*.

Now I’m happy to let him play his games once the little ones are in bed, or sleeping, even to play with Zack on particular games, but it’s reached a whole new level now… Zack is addicted to the gameboy, particularly Donkey Kong Country and anything to do with Mario and Luigi. The problem is he wants to play it ALL the time… he asks for it from first thing in the morning, as soon as he’s up from his nap, and wants to take it to bed with him (note I don’t actually let him have it all the time, although J would if I let him!). I knew I’d married a gamer but I didn’t think I’d end up with a gamer-son quite so young… he’s 2 years and 4 months old! I’ve got to give him some credit though - he can play these games better than me and it is a good way to give him something ’safe’ to do while I’m feeding Max, or on those days when everything is just too much for me to be up to my usual ‘fun-mum’ form.

Yesterday J was playing Super Mario Sunshine and Zack came out with this gem… “Nooooo Daddy - you’re going the wrong way, here I’ll show you!” proceeded to take the controller from him and take him to the person needed to continue the next part of the story. I was in stitches - this is a game that J has completed I don’t know how many times over, and his 2 year old son was instructing him on how to play! LMFAO!

I suppose I should have suspected this would happen… I just didn’t expect the obsession to start so young - he’s even got a Luigi doll who goes everywhere with him, and everytime he sees the Nintendo logo he yells “NEEENTENDO WOOHOO!!”

I’d better just accept it, I’ve got a gamer husband… I’m going to have gaming sons too.

I went into the bedroom to get changed, looked over at Max and couldn’t hear him breathing (he’s usually snoring away)… put my hand on his chest and wasn’t *quite* sure if I could feel him breathing. Oh my god I’ve never been so freaked out. He’s fine, was just in a very deep sleep. I’ll be prodding and poking him all night now to make sure he’s ok! Still… it makes you think. I’ve got that horrible pit-of-you-stomach feeling cause I can’t shake the stupid imagination I have that has me thinking”what if that actually had happened, how differently you would be acting right now…”.

Once again I end up blogging very late into the night (for me at least!) and I should so be in bed by now… I’m doing the night feeds with the idea that I’m having a lie in tomorrow - we shall see if I actually get that with two kids and J up and about…*sigh*

I had initially been going to ask for him to do the night feeds so I had a night off, but then I figured there’s not much point in that when I’d have to batter J to get him to actually wake up (lucky lucky man who can sleep through anything!) and then I end up having to get up for a loo break or whatever anyway, and can’t get back to sleep because of all the snuffling etc that Max gets up to. So I might as well just get up and do these feeds in the vain hope that I’ll get my catch-up tomorrow morning…

I’m in two minds whether to make up a bottle for the lil guy now in an attempt to ‘dreamfeed’ him, or whether to just go to bed and see when he wakes.

Ooh and check out Veronica’s blog… she’s got a great site there, and is one of the first bloggy-friends I’ve made

Six weeks ago today Max was born… I can’t believe it’s been 6 weeks already! He’s so alert now it’s great, he’s smiling and cooing and generally being very cootchy-coo ish (wonder if I’ll be saying this at 4am tonight…ha).

I’ll save his entry to the world for another day as it’s late and I’d like at least 2 hours sleep before getting up again!

J has a cold… he’s pretending he’s fine while whinging about it quietly. Still going into work etc so it can’t be that bad.

Zack has been waking up on and off this evening so far, so I get the feeling he’ll be keeping us up on and off too.

In other words…there’s bugger all going on in my world today!