The King's: Two very different weekends (Ingrid posts)

Last weekend was a nightmare! Brad and Sophie were both sick with some kind of cold/virus and were as miserable as hell and I was just pregnant and grumpy! Made for a very interesting weekend with me growling at everyone and Sophie starting her whining and grizzling routine again – the one thing she does that can result in me going totally nuts. By Sunday night I was well ready for Sophie to go back to her daycare and was for once actually looking forward to going to work the following day. But alas upon waking on Monday it was pretty obvious that Sophie was not well enough to go back – her eyes were almost completely closed with conjunctivitis and her nose was very green! I could have cried. Luckily it wasn’t too bad a day as I tried to keep her as occupied as possible – however she got a taste of whining and decided that it sounded good to her ears (and probably because she knew it drove me nuts) and kept it up for the whole week – throwing in a couple of tantrums and a bit of hitting of mum and dad also for the sake of it! Yes hitting! We are desperately hoping it is just a phase and will pass before the new baby arrives. Needless to say she has had plenty of time out to think about her actions!!!

We couldn't wait until Xmas

This weekend however, after a major growling from me, her grizzling and whining stopped and she has been an absolute angel. It has been a fantastic weekend and we wish we could bottle the good times and bring them out when she is pushing the boundaries. Saturday, we had a massive day starting with doing her favourite thing (going for a fluffy), visiting Michelle and Reece and their beautiful wee boy Ronan who is just divine, we then went for a ‘ham and cheese’ sandwich (Sophie’s favourite at Subway). On the drive home she fell asleep in the car and once home after a 10 minute sleep we unsuccessfully tried to move her from the car to her bed, which had us worried for the rest of the day that we would have a very grumpy girl on our hands, but surprising us all she managed to not only stay awake until 7pm that night, but be perfectly behaved with it! As it was a beautiful day, we put up the paddling pool that we were actually going to give her as a Xmas present and let her just run around and be a kid in the water. Sunday was just as good and her behaviour was even better! As she had a massive two hour sleep this afternoon to recharge the batteries, we let her stay up later until 7.30pm. At this very moment its 7.47pm and she is up in bed singing songs to herself which she will do until she falls asleep – very cute. At times like this I can’t help but think how lucky I am to have such a lovely wee girl and how she is just so amazing – something I must keep remembering on days when she is pushing every button and driving me a little closer to insanity! Oh the joys of parenting huh?