Jul

7

2009

I win! I win! I wore them down and wore them out

It’s pretty exhausting keeping up with the non stop fun at Chez Spud, that much I will admit. My boys are generally well up for it but, sometimes, it all gets a bit much for them. They concede, they admit defeat, they submit and then they lie down on the floor and take a nap.

Here’s Bertie, 3 years old, a few days ago. It was about 10am when it was suddenly all too much…he couldn’t take the pace. So he grabbed a couple of cushions and lay down on the kitchen floor. Strange choice, we have beds, sofas, floors with carpets on them even, all mod cons but, apparently, the cold, hard, filthy kitchen tiles are the place to snuggle down for a doze:

Eyes…barely…open…

Meanwhile, in the playroom, Diggy was following his brother’s lead and was also settling down for a nap. He was probably exhausted having drawn all over his face with a red pen. In fact he’d also drawn all over the piano too. Later, I drew all over my Grudge Book...

I swear I took these photos within seconds of each other. So I had Bertie dozing on my kitchen floor, and Diggy thinking about a nap on the playroom floor. And it was 10am – I’d not even cracked open the dressing up box yet. Oh, hang on, this one is nodding off…eyes rolling back…note blue colouring in on hand…

For a child who, from memory, didn’t sleep AT ALL for the first year of his life he’s developed quite a talent for ‘on the hoof’ snoozing. Here he is, a few days before, sneaking a teatime nap on MrSpud

Oh, and look! MrSpud is snoozing too! It seems he can’t keep up with all the Chez Spud antics either. Shame on you Mr Spud, sleeping on the job. Like a horse. Well, more like a pony of course in your case. A Shetland Pony. A very, very, small Shetland Pony. A Shetland Pony foal, in fact.

If I don’t ever blog again, it’s because MrSpud has finally cracked and has beaten me to death with The Saucepans. SOS (save..our…saucepans).

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  • Lumpy G
    Reading this I sensed a growing hysteria. Are you okay? Voices in your head? Keep talking back to them and eventually you'll scare them off. You're a loon and you're fab - so are your boys - even the Shetland foal one.
  • Oh, those beautiful babies.

    Just you wait. They'll get older and you'll be the one on the floor just begging for mercy - and a nap.
  • So sooo cute...and poor pooooor little Mr.Spud. LOL
  • Hurrah! Mothers: 1 Toddlers: nil

    See, mothers are ALWAYS right, especially when we say "you look sleepy, go take a nap".

    When my toddler finally gives in to sleep, it makes my heart melt, no matter how much of a monster child he's been. The sight of those closed eyes and that little sleeping cherub face turns me into a smug-look-how-clever-i-am-at-producing-such-a-beautiful-well-behaved-child-proud-to-be-a-mother type person. Sigh.
  • I cant see the 2nd and 3rd pictures...anyone else complain?
    Your boys are ADORABLE...all 3 of them ;P

    Mine sleep all stinking day and roam the house (streets too??) all night. Oh well, an Ambien and I'm good to go...
  • did you also just drop where you were and nap? and if so, where was it and what were you wearing? wig? beard? nun's habit? so many visions dancing in my head....
  • Ali
    Oh the joy of a morning nap... Ashley is still a napper even if she does go down screaming... I don't want a nap... until it gets quieter and quieter and she's out.
    I will always pick her up and put her in her bed though because I read somewhere that they sleep better and deeper in bed... this is purely selfish on my behalf cos I want my freakin' time back!!!!
  • Poor Mr Spud. You joke about it but one day he'll get you with those saucepans, and beat you until you're his height.
  • ay! they are so cute. sara used to sleep standing up... and daniel with his eyes open.- i would keep checking to see if he was still breathing... freaked me out...
  • Extra...I know, I know....children, meh, quelle DULL. But that's my life...me (good, interesting), animals (OK, smelly)...children (OK, smelly).

    Correct, children sleep too. however, not nearly as much as you'd like and rarely at the times that you'd like.

    By the time they are teenagers and I won't be able to get them out of bed before noon I will be so old I won't need more than 5 minutes sleep a night anyway. I have resigned myself to feeling 'this' knackered forever.
  • How completely and utterly selfless of your boys to leave you with your choice of bed or sofa for YOUR 10 a.m. nap.
  • I was really looking forward to a pig in a blond wig and a ZZ-top beard, but it is pictures of...

    ...children?

    However, the picture of my cycling blog crush, MrSpud totally makes up for it.

    Things learned: Children sleep too. On the floor even if you don't provide them with beds, but only carpets and couches.
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