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In light of last nights thread, i thought i'd try and start an early morning Dads club for those desperate/bored fathers who are up in the middle of the night.
Welcome all 😀
Rusty (up since 3!)
Morning.
bmx on sky channel 419 if you're fed up with cbeebies 😉
I'm trying to do some homework. She appears to have settled again, but I can't 😥
Woo Hoo, he's nodded off on me. In the cot you go sunshine, i'm back off to bed. 😀
See you all tomorrow, same time, same place.
Peppa Pig is on from 6, no chance getting in a sleep frame of mind now.
06:17 here - does that qualify me?
I've been up for hours.. But due to work not the wee man. Hopefully he'll let me get a good sleep today!
Poss not..
I'm about to start marking pupils tests - Lazy teachers.
3AM is hardcore Rusty! 5.50 for me, something of a lie in 🙂
Good morning chaps.
7am. Little one still sound asleep. 😀
Ours (3) sleep until 9 unless we wake them!
5.40 here. Same EVERY day and I really do mean EVERY day. No exceptions ever.
Except Christmas Day. Christams day is usually about 4.15 👿
Enjoy... one day you WILL look back with fondness, bringing back memories just reading this!
Morning fellas
My youngest came into bed with us around half four, promptly dId a little wee and then went back to his room. Bastardo!!! 🙂
Eldest was up at 5.45 as per usual
Where's hora? Probably doing the hoovering
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Woke up silly o'clock mrshora couldn't tell his cries were hunger cries (anyone else notice different cries for different things?).
Sorted.
He then woke up again and I could tell he has a sore throat.
Sorted.
I finally fell asleep just after the alarm went off for 30blissful minutes.
"06:17 here - does that qualify me?"
Does it hell, I usually get up for work at 5:50. Jnr FD was up 2:00am - 3:00am last night (think hes on a growth spurt because as soon as he had milk he went straight back off to sleep)
As I left at 6:30 he was sound asleep 👿
😆As I left at 6:30 he was sound asleep
Samehere. Why am I laughing 😐
anyone else notice different cries for different things?
Yup. Part of the reason we taught her sign language so she could communicate better, earlier. Helps reduce the frustration on both sides.
4yrs old and in our room at 0330 this morn announcing he was 'up' and thirsty and was it breakfast time!!!
feeling slightly jaded this morning....
Yesterday before rushing out I was eating my tea with the plate on my knees (yes I know), hora junior came in. Stood, waited until I finished then took the plate into the kitchen.
I was sat there 😮
He's only 18months old!
It was my turn for a sleep in this morning, 7.30pm! I shall be in the breakfast club tomorrow though, see you aroung 6am 👿
Up at 3am today with DAAADDDDYYYY! coming from her room. Back to bed, nappy change, fruit pouch, DAAADDDYYY! another nappy change, cuddles, lessons on why we need to sleep at night, tears, chastisement, few more tears, more joos and finally quiet, just before the smaller one woke up bright and early at 5am.
So I got dressed and got an earlier train to work.
Btw, do you lot not put gates on their doors to stop them wandering about?
I've been up at 5 al week for work, got an epic lie in until 7 today. Its sunny and still out there, so when Eddy & mrs meehaja go to breastfeeding club I'm going riding! (new tyres to try out!)
+1 for the Gro clock - it's like magic. Our 2 year old sleeps brilliantly and part of that is down to the clock.
It's set for 6.20 in the week and 7am at weekends and, even if he wakes early, he stays in bed until it's time to get up. We then hear him shout 'Sun's up!' and he charges into our room to say hi.
His sister, on the other hand, is a disaster! Teething, tummy bug, separation anxiety and dummy dependency.
Would love to join you all fella's but my 3 month old sleeps in till 7.30am, having been fed at 2.30am and that's only as we wake him up half the time. Happy days.
I'm sure things will change, mind. 😕
Morning all dads - both conscripts and civillian volunteers.
One of my stepsons was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and I have to get up during the night to check his blood glucose levels and I invariably end up having to reprogram his insulin pump and/or check for infusion set leakages or stuff his face with glucose tablets if he's hypoing.
He's 14 in January and I've still got years of this in front of me...
ha kimbers jr slept till 6-15 this morning!!!!!
+1 for the Gro clock - it's like magic. Our 2 year old sleeps brilliantly and part of that is down to the clock.It's set for 6.20 in the week and 7am at weekends
😯 you having a ******* laugh!!
gate on the door but he doesn't even get out of bed let alone try the door, just lies there shouting "Up....UP....uuuuup"Btw, do you lot not put gates on their doors to stop them wandering about?
you having a ******* laugh!!
Ha ha - no.
He sleeps from 7.15ish to 6.20/7 every day. Very rarely wakes up but if he does, he just goes back to sleep/ waits for the clock.
6.20's ok for him to get up as 1) his sister is awake anyway, 2) it means I get to play with him for a bit before I go to work and 3) it means he's likely to have a nap at lunchtime.
mine's asleep now, we did get up at ten to eight this morning tho 😛
we all get up after 9 at weekends.
Will be joining you all in about 6 weeks...
Will be joining you all in about 6 weeks...
Why are you awake?? Sleep now, while you still can!!
my 3 month old sleeps in till 7.30am
We were smug then too. Teething will put you back in the shabby club.
Morning dads. The Two Foot Tyrant is awake. Therefore, daddy is up now. If she wasn't so damned cute we'd have put her out for recycling months ago.
Morning, 5.30 this morning so a bit of a lay in. Snuffly little fella was struggling to breath last night so he did well to make it this late.
The 2 1/2 year old bitch from hell has been singing Twinkle, Twinkle since before 5.
Need more coffee.
Morning all, just got in from work, Big bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes, then its ear plugs in and bed for 6ish hours, wife will be up soon so a nice warm empty bed for me.......bliss!. 😀
Mine have just got up after an hour of wriggling and whispering. Now eating grapes, tangerines and bananas.
Coffee is on
Told you I'd be here. 5am for me, my little one tried every trick in the book to break the 6am rule this morning. She needed water, then a tissue, then developed a mystery tummy ache and finally resorted to the old classic but still effective scream the house down. I canno wait for her to become a teenager and I can exact revenge. I can wait little one.
No. 2 will be up soon enough to cause havoc no doubt. It's the bloomin kitten that does the 0530 wake up call everyday, the little sod, now she's happily sleeping in my lap while I have a cuppa. On the plus side, it's SNOWING! Wayhay. As the great Bing and friends sing 'Snow, snow, snow, snow, snoooww'
The misses got up with the sicky 20 month old this morning, but i'm up anyway as i had to give my side of the bed up last night to a wriggly 5 yr old! 😥
Sicky kids, don't envy that. I remember trying to catch it in my hands then thinking what'll I do now, dog looking on 'you're on your own there, even i'm not eating that'. All over the bed and floor anyway, new mattress please, and I boaked cos i'm a lightweight
Full house now, everyone up and about. Love it! 😀
I remember trying to catch it in my hands then thinking what'll I do now, dog looking on 'you're on your own there, even i'm not eating that'
lol
Remember using every towel, pillow case and bedsheet in the house one time when both of mine were puking for England.
I'm up - only since 6:25 tho today 🙂
2 year old eating bran flakes and watching dip dap!
Off riding in 90 mins - dark peak in the snow - get teh **** in there!
Been up 90 mins, little'un having booby top ups then it's over o me.
You get booby top ups too?
Waste not want not.
Admirable
perverted and sordid of course, but admirable nevertheless. 🙂
Delivered one about an hour and a half ago.. Does that count btw even tho it wasn't mine?
Hopefully mine will just be stirring as I type.. Looking forward to bed.
I've spent nearly the whole week in my 3yr olds bed as she's been poorly. I'm broken.
Has everyone discovered milkshake on channel 5? At least those producers are thinking of the dads 😉
Althepal = thread winner.
7am exactly again from our 20 month old.
Sorry.
Mind you we didn't get her to bed till 9pm!
This thread is an eye-opener... 😯
Will be joining you all in a little over a month. Book me a space.
This thread is an eye-opener...Will be joining you all in a little over a month. Book me a space.
Get all the sleep in now you possibly can Bullheart, you will never wake up and see 8 something on the clock again. Also, be prepared to walk around work humming the theme tune to Me Too
Sleep, sleep and sleep some more bullheart. Stockpile food you can open, cook and eat with one hand. Put a duvet under your sofa for easy access at 2.30am. Look at yourself in the mirror - in a short while you will think wistfully of the time you looked your age rather than the haggard and dishevelled tramp that now stares back at you. 😉
22month old one was up at 6am this morning full of beans and wanting to play and it was my turn to get up(bugger!!)currently pushing cars up and over me as i sit here typing watching jen on channel five
This thread is an eye-opener
Either:
Do everything you love to do just for you. Fettling bikes, pub, cinema, whatever. or,
Do nothing. Nothing at all. Sit on the sofa and wallow in nothingness.
These will be lost to you. You will look back and wonder how you filled all that time. I'd not change it, but do it NOW!
watching jen on channel five
^^this^^
8pm - 8am.... lovely
Oh joy- the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse barrage has begun 😡
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watching jen on channel five
+1 for this!
(i'll whisper it, because Mrs Rossi is just waking up)
Yawn...little H just fed and hopefully back to sleep....trumped his way thru his bottle, always makes me chuckle, even at 4am....
Oh dear late to log on 2 year old up at 5am....again he never sleeps in! Still coffee post man pat and now the lion king!
😆
Morning 🙂
7.05am here. Quite a rarity having a lie in that late as it's usually 6.15. Im seeking refuge in the kitchen away from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
The wife is on a shopping/drinking trip so I had them all day yesterday, two under four is hard work but good fun.. More than earnt my day off 😉
been up since six , wife has been with our 4yr old most the night, she had a temp etc,
NOW ! they are all in the lounge, the six year old, the four year old and the misses and they are watching
LMFAO sexy and i know it !!!!!, they keep asking me to shake my junk!!!,
a man alone in a house of women,
i think i'm going up the woods
just got my two to bed finally and peace has decended- I am on the other side of the world though in NZ my Breakfast club stint is about 7 or 8 hours away...
nearly 2 year old asleep still, but had to go in to settle him at 4.30.
this was no problem as I have been up since 4am with the two bob bits, not a wink of sleep just sweating away on the bog.
now up with 4 year old watching max and ruby, just turning to peppa pig.
Wife's birthday today supposed to having Chinese at lunchtime, my stomach just clenched at the thought of it...
Another bonkers night in the Rusty house.
I fell asleep watching match of the day and staggered upstairs at 3.30, just in time for the 'big bed swap'.
This resulted in me and 20 month old snot machine in our bed and Mrs Rusty in with 5 yr old.
With the various wake ups i reckon we got about 4 hours sleep each, so not bad really :?.
Captain Mack now on telly. Unfortunately Tracey Trixter is not in this episode 🙁
Pjm1974...things will settle once the dosages settle...
I much prefer HP to daddies tbh...
8pm - 8am.. it's a hard life.. 8)
The sneaky 2 yr-old managed to adjust her sun/stars clock so the sun came up a "little" early. Unfortunately she could not compute that it really wasn't time to get up at 3:15am this morning. First coffee down, more to follow...
The sneaky 2 yr-old managed to adjust her sun/stars clock so the sun came up a "little" early.
we've always tried to stick to the literal sun and moon clock to avoid the problem you've just experienced..
on balance the sun clock has been brilliant for both of our children as it solved the issue of them getting up at random (early) times...apart from when it's set incorrectly of course