Argh! Monsters!

I am so wild! Maya is refusing to sleep because apparantly there are monsters in her bedroom and/or ghosts. I know I should be the nice touchy-feely Mummy and say "it's ok baby, Mummy will stay with you" but I am over it. Seriously, every night it's something else with this kid! The past few nights it's been the wiggly bottom, but now that I've given her a worm tablet and told her there is no way she can still have a wiggly bottom she's thought of something else.

Grrrr! How can I stop the nightly performance? We have a nightly routine, she helps me put the babies to bed then I read her a story and brush her teeth etc. then tuck her in. And every night she carries on for up to two hours.

She is sitting outside the door to the office crying "I need you Mama" when the only thing she needs is a good kick up the butt!

Get her to check the cupboards and drawers to see that there is no monsters in there and then she should stay in bed. Ask where the monsters came from, maybe some one at preschool has told her about them.

lol yes my eldest is giving me cheek too, and i wont even discuss the little one. But lissy is always so good, now she has morphed into someone who likes to backchat her mother. It must be about this age that we lock them up somewhere for the next 15 years???????????

I agree with the monster spray.

gabriel is always saying no to me - maybe he got it from maya lol.....

i guess if it was a power struggle last night then she won. she got to stay up with daddy on the couch. so tonight will be even harder...

get your monster spray and your resolve ready... oh and it will be even harder tonight seeing mummy will really want her to go to bed...

Kalem went though the moster stage and thats when the incredibles movies was the rage so i told kalem that mummy has put a big a incredible shield up and that worked a treat 

sadly Robyn, have tried to find a spray for that.. and thinking of formulating my own. lol

Harry is going through the same thing...re the Monsters I tell him they are all outside but I like the Monster Spray so will try that.

He is also doing the back chat thing and the hardest thing I find it trying not to smile or laugh when he does it as it sounds so cute and yes, secretly I am impressed (but I know that will change).

LOL Nikki - not content with just water, Maya has to have WARM water. So she may well have a cup full of water next to the bed but if it goes cold then it is no good

I had a tupperware party last night and let Miss Maya stay up a little later (OK so a lot later) and when I finally put her in the spare room where Willie was hiding out watching TV we all heard her screaming about how she didn't want to go to bed

busymum wrote: Emma is Maya ready for a 1/2 hour later bedtime? Just a thought.

I don't think so. She is always shattered by bedtime, I think she is just like me, a night owl, altho she gets up pretty early.

I hear you on the blind obedience thing too - Maya is really into questions at the moment, most of the time I try to answer them with a reasonable answer but I do have my frustrated moments when I reply "because I'm the Mum and I said so!"

Tonight she went to bed with no major dramas - I am amazed! I made Willie put her to bed coz I was just shattered (have been walking round the zoo all day) and she went straight to sleep. Last nght she played up tho and went I got up to tuck her in I found her asleep in my bed with the light on! I picked her up and put her in her own bed and she stayed there all night.

I guess this is my come-uppance for bragging about what a great sleeper she was as a baby If only I'd known it would get harder - I might have run away while I had the chance!

my girls are wakingup fairly early at the mo, and i am restless anyway, annoying thing is once they wake me up - i can't go back to sleep, i have to get up and have something to eat. consequently i am dog tired. have yet to trial ayja with taking the side off her cot, not ony do i think she'll fall out (have matresses for the floor) but i know she won't stay in there.