June already!?

Ruby received her first merit award at assembly yesterday, for 'improvement and being a delight to teach." That's very nice to hear, because she definately is NOT a delight to parent at times, like the other night when she had a tantrum from 3.15am unto 4am, over wanting to sleep in our room. Normally i don't have a problem with the kids wanting to sleep with us. They all did when they were little. But Ruby doesn't sleep when she's in our bed, she talks constantly to herself, pats my face and carries on. The same thing happens if she sleeps on the mattress I put on the floor next to our bed. I end up with my arm stretched out so I can hold her hand or pat her because she 'sees shadows'. So it has been a concerted effort to get her to stay in her own bed, that has mostly paid off. She still wakes at least once every night and I (it's always me) will go to her, get her a drink of water, retuck the covers and say goodnight. And mostly that's it. But the other night it wasn't enough, and a tantrum, of the full blown screaming kind ensued. I was strong and didn't go back in, as I reasoned it was a power-play over how to "make mummy do my bidding", but she ended up waking up the entire house. At one point she shrieked out "NOBODY IS LISTENING TO ME!!!!" to which Declan replied, dead pan, through the dark, "I am."

Eventually I did go back in and told her that if she wasn't quiet she would miss out on a birthday party she has been invited to. That, and the reappearance of her old night light, worked. I went back to bed and was very depressed to realise that my alarm was going off in another hour, and my sleep for that night was pretty much over.

Thank goodness she is charming and lovely to people who are not me!

I took Simon for his CT scan of his sinuses last Thursday, but unfortunately i wasn't able to stay in there and watch the scan come up on the computer as I did last time, so I don't know yet how much of the polyp has returned. His appointment with Dr McKay is in 2 weeks, on his 10th birthday, so fingers crossed for good news. Simon is worried that if he has to have another operation he will have the mask and gas again, which totally freaked him out last time, so I have told him that I will do everything I can not to let that happen. I'm sure they can do the anaesthetic the other way, with the intravenous sedation, with kids, can't they?

We are planning a drive down to Minnnamurra National Park tomorrow to do the forest walk to the water falls, which is beautiful. Brett and I were last there before we had kids, and I'm sure they will think it's great. Fingers crossed for good weather!