More de-cluttering done!!

This morning Mr Messy got up with Little Prince, I was supposed to get up too but fell asleep again! Mr Messy woke me up when it was almost time for him to go out on a photographing trip with his camera club. Drama Teen was also invited on this trip, but said the destination was boring and she didn't want to go. After waking me up Little Prince was obviously in the mood for waking people up and got his sisters up too!! They weren't pleased!! I pottered around sorting things out and tidying up, before having to go for a bath (I much prefer showers) as the shower is still broken! Then I went to the local DIY shop to get a new shower, ours isn't that old but I can't find the receipt so I can't take it back!! Our Handyman called before I got back, but luckily said he could come back later and get the shower fitted :-) He came back soon after lunch and spent ages fiddling to get the new shower in. Its the same make as the old one, but a Mark II model, and had a completely different back plate unfortunately! But luckily after a lot of faffing and drilling and hammering we now have a working shower again :-) He only charged me £20 but it would have been worth double that, just to stop the girls complaining that they couldn't have a shower!!

While all this was going on Mr Messy had returned from his photography trip, and I'd made him start helping me sort out the cr*p in our bedroom. We've been totally ruthless and got rid of loads, my boot is once more stuffed full of things to go to the tip. And I've got two huge bags of things to go to the charity shop on Monday too. And even after all that we STILL have more stuff to sort out!! Where does all this cr*p come from?!?! And why does it all materialise in MY house?!?! Tomorrow's assignment is to sort out the dining room!! I think I'll have to go to the tip first as there's no more room for anything else in my car!!!

Birthday Celebrations

During the week Mr Messy turned the grand OLD age of 50!!! OMG my old man really is OLD!!! With him working away most of the week, me and Little Prince being jet lagged and the upheaval Panel caused we didn't get chance to celebrate. But we made up for that this weekend :-) We went to the same restaurant that we went to for my birthday, with the same group of friends and had a great time again :-) I was a bit more organised than Mr Messy was and got him some helium balloons (saying either "50" or "Birthday Boy" hehe) and got him a cake. I thought about the 'Busty Boobs' cake but settled on a plain white one with 'Happy Birthday' on it lol. It was lovely to see all our friends together again, and they were joking that next time we get together to celebrate it will be when our new little one comes home :-) Its so nice that all our friends are so excited and happy for us too :-)

Little Prince was a total pain the whole meal!! He had wanted to sit next to his girlfriend's big sister (does he prefer the older woman?!), but she felt ill and wanted to sit with her mummy and daddy. He wasn't sat next to me and took full advantage of that!! LMS was sat opposite him and looked like she was going to have a nervous breakdown from before the starters even arrived!! He had been so looking forward to having ribs (which he adores) and talked about it all the way there in the car. He ordered ribs himself from the waiter and was very happy about this, until the main courses arrived and Girlfriend had sausages!! That wasn't fair, he wanted sausages!! When we pointed out that he loved ribs, he claimed to hate them and we were all mean for not telling him that he could have had sausages!! We've told him next time we go there we will let Girlfriend order first and then he can decide what he wants!!! For most of the meal he sat messing about and not touching his food, but just as everyone else was finishing he decided to eat most of his ribs!! Finally!! There was more trouble to come!!! The waiter brought out the cake, with sparklers in and we all sang to Mr Messy!! When he was cutting the cake into pieces Little Prince kept telling Daddy that he wanted the ribbon from round the cake. Trouble is Mr Messy didn't hear him and gave the ribbon to Girlfriend!!!! That was the last straw for Little Prince, he refused point blank to eat any cake (little boy REFUSING cake!! That's grounds for a visit to A&E!!!) and just sat whinging about the ribbon and trying to grab it from Girlfriend. Then Mad Cat Lady's Hubby made him and Girlfriend paper airplanes out of the menus!! Which Little Prince used as a missile to attack the surrounding tables!! Not a good idea really!!! Luckily we had all finished by then so we could get out of there before we were thrown out!!!

Outside we got Mad Cat Lady to take a family photograph of the five of us, and of the three she took there is one where everyone is looking in the right direction, not pulling faces and everyone has their eyes open!! We need this picture for our Ethiopia dossier, and LMS isn't home that often to try again, so I was thrilled we got a usable photo :-) Little Prince continued to be a pain most of the way home, perhaps it was all too much excitement and too much pressure to be good?! When we went for petrol on the journey home, he was asking for sweets!! He got told NO as he wasn't stuffing himself full of sugar after not eating much dinner and just before bedtime!! Once home he played for a few minutes before tidying up (with 'encouragement' from his big sisters) before insisting that LMS take him to bed. He has been telling her all day that he is going to be sad and cry tomorrow, and that she shouldn't go back to university! Oh dear! Tomorrow is going to be a hard day!

Today's Blurb

This morning after me and LMS dropped Little Prince off at school we planned to get straight on with more de-cluttering! But LMS wanted a shower and I wanted to get some emails replied to, so we said we would give ourselves an hour and then start, great plan huh?? I was pottering around getting some things tidied up and putting some of Little Prince's books back on the now fixed (thank you Mr Messy) bookshelves, when I heard a faint "Mum." I asked LMS what she wanted but she didn't reply, so I thought I must have been mistaken, until a dripping wet and grumpy LMS arrived in the hall!! "The shower's making a horrible smell and there's white smoke coming out of it!" Oh boy!!! Being totally non-technical my only solution was to call our handyman and tell LMS to take a bath instead!! Handyman can't get round till tomorrow, but said its probably broken - you think?!?! I'm supposed to be looking for the receipt, as he only fitted it a few months ago!! Hopefully we will just be able to take it back and get a replacement as it shouldn't have broken this quickly!!!

Once LMS was washed and dressed she decided she was hungry and would cook herself some garlic bread, for breakfast?!?! Half way through cooking the oven flashed a bright light and has now gone off completely!!! She has been banned from touching any and all technology throughout the house!!! She's dangerous!!!!

We decided that something was telling us we should get on with the de-cluttering we were putting off and finally got round to it! We tackled mine and Mr Messy's room and I've now remembered why I hate tidying up after him!!! He leaves things lying around for YEARS, and yes I refuse to pick up after him and leave it there!!! We are as childish as each other about this lol. We filled a bin bag with cr*p that he's left lying around!!! And we still haven't finished!!!! But being the dedicated and motivated team that we are, we decided to have a break :-) Back to work in a mo, to try and get some more done before Little Prince gets back from school.

UPDATE: I just thought to ask LMS to try the switched fuse box thingie and see if the oven switch was off on there - and it was, its now back on and working :-) No idea what the problem was!!!! We might still be on chippie for tea!!!

UPDATE: Drama Teen is a twit!! She was just reading my blog and said "oh you've noticed the shower is broken!" Apparently she's known for days and just didn't bother saying anything!!! Aaaargh!!! Why me?!?!?

So much to do so little time!!!

Yesterday was busy, but luckily not eventful!! I got a lot more de-cluttering and tidying and washing and putting away done!! Why do holidays always end like this?! I finally remembered to take Little Prince's friends their presents from our holidays up to school for him to give to them as they came out. We then came home for a while before setting off for his group swimming lesson. During the lesson I tried to get hold of Drama Teen to find out if she had arrived back from her school trip. She was due back at the same time Little Prince started his lesson, but the teachers had said they weren't sure of the arrival time as it depended on traffic. If she did get back during Little Prince's lesson we'd arranged that she would go home with a friend who was also on the trip, and that I'd pick her up after swimming. Trouble is she didn't answer her phone or reply to the text I sent her! Once Little Prince had finished splashing around in the pool (there's a new inexperienced teacher who can't really handle him or the rest of the class so they don't learn much, but he has fun so that's what matters) we got ready and set off to pick up Drama Teen, still not knowing if she was at her friends, still travelling or what! All the way to her friends I tried to ring her, but got no response, I left loads of messages on her voicemail and got crosser and crosser!! Poor Drama Teen!! When I arrived at her friend's house, she was already there, calmly eating an iced lolly!!! Once we were in the car I flipped!! I yelled, told her we might as well throw her phone away as it obviously didn't work and was generally obnoxious. Drama Teen kept apologising but I'd worked myself up too much and just carried on ranting. It was a horrible journey :-( I did eventually calm down and apologise and we are speaking to each other again now, and she still has her phone!!

We set straight off to the train station to pick up LMS who is visiting for the weekend, to celebrate Mr Messy's birthday last week. Little Prince fell fast asleep on the way to the station, and didn't wake up when we arrived. LMS's train was on time and she came over to the car, I think she was about to complain that we didn't go into the station to meet her, but when she saw her snoring brother she realised why lol. She put her bags in the boot and that woke Little Prince up, he was quite confused and not really with it, but obviously thrilled to see his biggest sister :-) We went to McDonald's on the way home and he got a Light Sabre toy, trouble is he seemed to decide that LMS was a bad guy (she was wearing black!!) and practiced his Jedi moves on her!! She quickly confiscated the Light Sabre!!

When we got home Little Prince insisted LMS take him to bed, although the nap earlier meant he wasn't quite ready for sleeping and he was up and down the stairs way too many times before finally falling asleep!!! Drama Teen got on with her homework and was supposed to tidy her room, she didn't do much of the latter!! Me and LMS chatted downstairs while she was on her computer. We stayed up far too late and were both like zombies this morning lol.

Eventful Day!!!

Little Prince was delighted to return to school today :-) He was less happy that lazy mummy decided to drive to school rather than race after him on his scooter, but I'm not quite up to that yet lol. And besides I had to go to the garage to get some air in one of my tyres. The first garage I tried has removed their air-line! The second one's air-line was out of order!! So that was a wasted trip!! I got home in time to get some more washing on, do lots of tidying up (its amazing how much easier it is without Little Prince's 'help'!!!

Late morning the Educational Psychologist arrived for our scheduled meeting to discuss his recent assessments of Little Prince. Basically he didn't tell me anything I didn't already know ie that Little Prince has difficulties with fine motor skills and concentration! He has suggested some strategies for school to use with Little Prince to help him achieve - lots of positive reinforcement, short activities and lots of supervision, which is more or less how we treat him at home. He also went through an Autism/Aspergers Syndrome questionnaire with me and at the end of it concluded that if Little Prince even has this it is on the extremely mild end of the spectrum :-) That was very very reassuring, as out of all the ideas the Paediatrician came up with when we visited him, it was the Autism/Aspergers Syndrome that worried me the most. I don't even know why, its just a condition that scares me, which is very silly of me as I know very little about it! He ended by saying that he will be off work for the next few months (following an operation next week) and that he urgently needs some forms from school, and asked that I chase this up for him. Well actually he said tell Miss that if she doesn't send me the form she can't have my report!!! I told school when I picked Little Prince up and hopefully they will get on with it now!!
After picking Little Prince up and waiting for Drama Teen to arrive home, we set off for the supermarket. Little Prince fell asleep in the car on the way there, and really didn't want to wake up when we arrived! We sat him in the shopping trolley (he is way too big for the child seats) and he eventually agreed to wake up if we let him look at the toy aisle. I warned him we were just looking and not buying, and he was very good about this :-)

After finishing the shopping I took them both to the fast food restaurant, as I had decided to rejoin Weight Watchers tonight and wouldn't have time to cook. It was probably not a good idea to have some fast food myself, but I figured I'd start being good tomorrow lol.

Then on the way home our problems started!! I was in the front of the queue at a large roundabout, and started to slowly pull out when a car came round indicating that he was taking the exit before mine. I had to stop, when he sailed past the exit and carried on past me! Unfortunately the car behind me didn't stop and crunched right into the back of my car!! We were jerked forward with quite a bit of force, despite being in a much bigger 4x4!! After checking that Drama Teen and Little Prince were alright, I got out and checked the other driver was ok - she was. She seemed a bit shaky and very cross!! I explained that about the car indicating and then not turning and she accepted that. She was cross because she was in a hire car, due to someone else doing the same to her earlier in the week!! Her car front grill was broken and there was a huge 'spare wheel' shaped dint in her bonnet! My car, on the other hand was completely unscathed!! Well the impact had knocked some of the dirt off, but no scratches, marks or dints whatsoever!! Yeah for 4x4s :-) The young driver seemed very distracted and rang someone on her mobile! Another driver going past shouted abuse at us both and told us non too politely to move our cars out of the way as we were causing a hold up!! Lovely sympathetic man NOT!!! We moved our cars onto the verge and exchanged details, the young driver asked that if I did discover a problem with my car that I contact her first and she would pay for it, as she would rather not go through her insurance, probably as she'd lose her no claims or something.

We finally got back in our cars and I set off for home again, it was already too late to be able to go to WW and I was feeling a bit shaken up and didn't fancy it by then anyway! I got Drama Teen to try to get in touch with my friend who I was supposed to meet at WW, but her mobile was turned off and she'd already left when Drama Teen tried her at home. We had to go straight round to our accountants house when we got into our village to drop off some forms he needed. Luckily he was in a hurry and didn't keep me for long, and we were off home so that I could relax :-)

Driving down the main village street, I slowed down as their was a horse rider in front of us, and it was a good job I did!! The next minute we heard a bang and a crunch and a motorbike slid across the village hall car park towards us!! If we or the horse rider had been just a few seconds quicker we would have been hit!! I stopped the car and went to see if the rider was ok, as he was just lay very still on the ground!! His friends were surrounding him and asking if he was ok, but he still didn't seem to be moving! He started to move slightly as I got there and I asked if he needed an ambulance or wanted his family contacting, I got told "F*&k off I'm fine." Charming boy!!! So I f'd off back to my car, thoroughly p'd off with his attitude!! I'll ask his mum at school tomorrow how he is!!

Drama Teen and her friend kindly put all our shopping away, as I was feeling very shaky and needed to sit down. When Mr Messy rang up (he is working away this week until Friday) I tried not to tell him, as I didn't want him to worry. But he knew from my voice that something was up, and so I had to tell him. I broke down in tears and got pretty emotional, luckily Drama Teen was able to give me a big hug, which helped a lot :-) Then I got Little Prince ready for bed, luckily he settled down pretty quickly (I wondered if his earlier nap would make him stay awake for ages) and I was able to come downstairs and switch off and relax. My neck and back have started to ache and I'm still feeling shaky, so I've got my fingers crossed that its just due to being scrunched up on a plane, and then being tense and nervous over panel rather than being whiplash! I'll see how I am in the morning!! What a day!!!!

~*~ Big Announcement ~*~

We are overjoyed to announce that we are heading off on a NEW ADVENTURE :-)

Last Christmas me and Mr Messy came to the sad decision that staying in the China adoption programme and possibly waiting for many more years for a referral was not in ours, our children's, or our future little one's best interests. We tried to change to an expedited Special Needs request, but this proved to be impossible. So after much thought and discussions with OASIS (thank you so much J & M & S) we decided to try and change our application to adopt from ETHIOPIA :-) We have been plodding through the mind blowingly slow process to update/redo our homestudy, for which we've been charged an arm and a leg! And yesterday was the culmination of all our efforts, when we attended Approval Panel! I was a shaking bag of jet lagged nerves, while Mr Messy was cool as a cucumber - I think I do the worrying for both of us lol. We had to wait over 3/4 of an hour to go in, and I was getting more and more nervous as the minutes ticked slowly by!! Panel gave us a thorough grilling and although I managed to answer some questions, others just made my mind go blank! Mr Messy and our social worker saved the day by stepping in and providing great answers :-) Our social worker has been a total GEM throughout the process, totally supportive but thoroughly questioning our reasons for this change and forcing us to think through the ramifications for us all. We couldn't have done it without her. And when at the end of Panel she said that she totally supported our application and thought we should be approved to adopt from Ethiopia, I almost cried :-)

We were then sent outside the meeting room to wait. Beforehand I'd not even been able to look at the sandwiches and cakes on offer, but I managed to stuff down all the remaining chocolate rolls!! There weren't that many honest!! We waited for what seemed like HOURS, but was only about 30 minutes!! The Chair came out and said the Panel were recommending that we be approved and I almost broke down!! I couldn't believe it!!! After my stammering, stuttering performance and the long long wait to hear from them, even our social worker was starting to be convinced they were going to say no!!! But they didn't!!!!!!! How cool is that?!?! Anyway she went on to say that they were happy to approve us because we were already experienced adoptive parents, and were also experienced in parenting a child who looks different :-) She did go on to say that Panel would like us to work very hard to keep our future child's connections to Ethiopia and to other Ethiopian adoptees, which we have always intended to do :-)

On the way home I rang LMS, my Mum, friend who was looking after Little Prince and Mad Cat Lady. I intended to ring everyone else once we were home, but fell asleep totally shattered at about 4.30pm and didn't wake up till Mr Messy came to bed!!

I have spent the day slowly emptying our suitcases, washing all the dirty washing and tidying up after leaving my messiest pair home alone for a week!! I'm not complaining though, as they did manage to completely strip, sand and paint our stairs :-) It needs one more coat, but it looks so much nicer than it did before - thank you Mr Messy and Drama Teen :-) I've also been emailing everyone I can think of to let them know our good news :-) And finding out what I need to do next for our Ethiopian dossier, which thankfully isn't half as much as it was for our Chinese application and I should be able to get everything collected by the time our LA issue the Agency Decision Maker's letter. Fingers crossed lol. I've had a fabulous Notary recommended to me, who has done Ethiopian dossiers before and is willing to work with us remotely, as we are at opposite ends of the country :-) I emailed him after office hours and got a reply within minutes saying he would be delighted to work with us, and would get back to me tomorrow with more details :-) Everything seems to be slotting into place and it all feels like its meant to be :-) Even our builder, who was due to start work on our tumble down cottage next month has rung to postpone till next Spring - which means that after Christmas we can start work on the big bedroom reshuffle, so that Ethiopia MeiMei will have a bedroom ready for when she arrives :-)

At the moment I veer from disbelief that it is actually happening, to total panic that it is actually happening, to totally tired and needing to sleep!! Do I dare to dream that we could complete our family next year?? That we could meet our new little one, hug her and hold her as soon as next year?? After the emotion numbing wait we've been in for China, its not sunk in properly yet!!

We're Home

Well its half past one in the morning and I'm wide awake!! So here I am blogging!!

We spent our last few hours in Florida walking up I-Drive and visiting some of the hundreds of souvenir shops. I got Little Prince and his friend at school matching Mickey Mouse t-shirts, it took ages to find two the right size/design - even with the thousands of t-shirts there must have been waiting to be bought!! We saw a Chuck E Cheese, and Little Prince insisted on going in, he'd seen TV adverts for it when we visited America last time and was desperate to go! Trouble is the lady admitting people, spoke very little English and we couldn't understand her explanation of what to do! It was LOUD and very confusing, so much to Little Prince's disgust we just went straight back out again! Instead we had lunch in an all you can eat pizza buffet place. Some guests really got their money's worth, they were stacking their plates high and revisiting the buffet bar numerous times!! At first Little Prince refused to eat anything, but once he saw me and Mad Cat Lady eating he changed his mind. He still has very little appetite and I just hope that it improves once we get home and he's eating familiar food again.

We got back to the hotel in plenty of time to wait for our transfer back to the airport. More than enough time as the transfer coach was late!! Little Prince ran round the lobby with another little boy and had a lot of fun :-) The coach back to the airport was lovely, very modern and comfortable. We sat right behind the driver and Little Prince could see his stash of chocolate milk, and kept asking me to tell the driver he wanted it!! Eventually he fell asleep - Little Prince not the driver!! He wasn't happy to be woken up at the airport and was very grumpy with me. Once our suitcases had been unloaded we went and joined the check in queue, which took forever! There were two queues - ours and the one for passengers who'd paid extra for the Premium package, which includes a faster check in!! Now I know how everyone felt watching us go straight to the front of the queue at Disney with our Guest Assistance Pass!! We were getting quite worried as the check in staff were weighing all bags, including carry ons, and ours were most likely over the weight limits!! However, it all worked out as our checked in bags were under the combined three person weight limit, and the check in girl didn't weigh Little Prince's play bag :-) We went straight through to security and for once me and Mad Cat Lady didn't beep as we passed through the metal detectors - Little Prince did (probably the carabena we use to fasten his blankie to his clothes). The security guards didn't bother searching him and just waved us through!!

We sat around in the lounge for a while, grabbed a bite to eat and let Little Prince run off some energy! I'm sure the other passengers were watching him run round and round and wondering what on earth he'd be like on the plane lol. Once boarding was announced we were all loaded on pretty quickly. Little Prince is definitely Mr Messy's son!! We were passing through the Premium seats and Little Prince was trying to sit down, insisting that these were very nice seats and he wanted to sit there!! Once we passed through to cattle class, he started to try and grab and throw the cushions on the seats and exclaim that these were rubbish and he wouldn't sit here!!! Our seats were almost at the back of the plane, so it was quite 'interesting' getting him to his seat without trashing the plane!! Once we were settled in, one of the stewardesses came and apologised to Mad Cat Lady that her seat's remote control wasn't working (it had been mine on the way out!!). Mad Cat Lady was mad!! She made a fuss, but as the plane was very full they would only be able to move her and she didn't want to leave us, although if they'd offered her a Premium seat I think it would have been a harder choice!! They did give us complimentary drinks and upgrade mine and Little Prince's TV choices for free though, which mollified Mad Cat Lady a little.

I don't like the way the airline (charter) comes round first with a trolley full of snacks you have to buy, before serving the free meal! But it makes good business sense, even if it is hard on the wallet with a hungry child watching familiar snacks trundle past!! None of us enjoyed the meal this time, but with a lot of swapping between ourselves we managed to all eat something! Once the cabin lights were dimmed I got Little Prince to lie down and go to sleep, and he slept for the rest of the journey. Which is more than I can say for most of the kids on the flight!! One child screamed very loudly for over an hour, waking everyone up and the parent's didn't seem to do anything - perhaps they are used to it and can sleep through it?!?! So me and Mad Cat Lady got very little sleep on the journey and were absolutely exhausted by the time we landed!

We landed an hour early and got through Immigration (or is it UK Border Patrol now??) very quickly too. Unfortunately it took forever to unload the luggage from the plane, and we stood around for ages waiting. Little Prince mentioned that his tummy felt hurty, while we were waiting but then seemed to brighten up (notice I said 'seemed'!!!). Once we'd finally got our cases we headed off through Customs, we turned the corner into the Customs corridor and Little Prince threw up EVERYWHERE!!! I managed to get him over to the side and start cleaning him up and calming him down. There were a few choice comments from other passengers as they came into the corridor, but quite a few sympathetic ones from other parent's too. Mad Cat Lady left all her bags and suitcases and ran off to find some help. Once I'd finished cleaning up Little Prince and he seemed ok again, we hung around waiting for Mad Cat Lady. It became obvious she wasn't coming back, so I grabbed all the bags and suitcases somehow and got me and Little Prince through the exit. Mad Cat Lady was there waiting, as she had passed through Customs she wasn't allowed to go back through to help us!! She had argued with the security guard, but she had just had to wait helplessly for us!! Its a good job Little Prince was able to walk or I wouldn't have been able to manage all the bags and would have been completely stuck!!

It was quite a surprise not to see Mr Messy stood waiting for us!! I had been so looking forward to him being there, and he wasn't!!! We had no idea where he was and no way of getting in touch with him, and a sickly Little Prince to deal with - not a great welcome home!! We dragged our suitcases over to the coffee shop and sat there and waited. It seemed like ages, but wasn't really, before a flustered Mr Messy came into sight - and a very welcome sight he was too :-) The traffic on the way to the airport had been horrendous and he had been caught up in it. I was very happy to hand over my very heavy suitcase for him to drag to the car!!

On the way home Little Prince talked non stop about wanting to go to school, asking if Daddy could go straight to school, asking what time he would get to school!! We tried to argue that he wasn't well and it wasn't a good idea, but after a while we just let him chatter!! It didn't take long to get to Mad Cat Lady's house, where we helped her in with her bags, before going home ourselves. It was lovely to arrive home :-) Little Prince headed straight for his toy box and begain emptying it everywhere - checking everything was still there I presume!! I found the photos we'd had printed when we got the Photopass CD and showed them to Mr Messy :-) Then we decided to go out for some nice English breakfast :-) The first place we tried had no bacon, and Mr Messy and Little Prince wanted bacon butties, the next place we thought of doesn't open on Mondays, but the third place was open, had bacon and so we stopped there!!! Little Prince STILL didn't eat very much, about half of his bacon and none of his bread!! He fell asleep in the car on the way home, but woke up when we ladi him on the sofa for a nap.

I then had to run round finding some clothes to wear for a meeting we had planned for early afternoon. Luckily I still fitted into what I'd planned to wear - a close thing after all those American size portions!! We dropped Little Prince off at my friend's house and set off for our meeting. I'll blog about the meeting once I've had chance to tell everyone I need to tell about it!! I rang and spoke to a very sleepy, and quite grumpy LMS on the way to the meeeting, it would have been nicer to actually see her, but talking to her was lovely :-) I've missed her so much. I rang my friend on the way home from the meeting and she said Little Prince had been really good, and played nicely and then fallen asleep!! He was still asleep when we arrived at her house to pick him up, and wasn't very happy that he wouldn't see his friend as he was going home before she got home from school!! As soon as we got home again he snuggled up on my knee and almost went back to sleep! I had a very difficult time keeping him awake for long enough to see Drama Teen when she got home from school. It was lovely seeing her again, I've missed her so much. I couldn't keep Little Prince awake any longer and he was soon deeply asleep, I was feeling extremely tired myself so I put him to bed and went to bed myself! Apparently Little Prince woke up around 7pm had something to eat and went back to bed. I didn't wake up until Mr Messy came to bed, and then couldn't get back to sleep and came downstairs to blog so that I didn't disturb Mr Messy.

Mr Messy has just been downstairs to find out what was going on! Little Prince had woken up sobbing (I didn't even hear him!) about his lost autograph book, and Mr Messy had seen the light on downstairs and come to investigate. He's at work in the morning so has had to go back to bed. I'm wide awake, but know that I've got to sleep or I'll never get up in the morning and I've got to try and get my bodyclock back on UK time again!! So I'm off back to bed to try and get some sleep!!! Night night :-)