Ready for Bed

Hmmm. I would love to tell you how smoothly the day went. But if I did, it wouldn't be quite true. With one child,  you can guarantee that things will be complicated sometimes. Just because. With five still at home and another one over the road with a baby of her own. Well.  Life is certainly never boring, and today was one of those days.

We've had a stomach bug in the family for the last week. I have been lucky enough to escape it so far, but everyone else has suffered to some extent as it's jumped from one child to another. You don't really need the details, you can probably guess, and certainly nothing you would want to read about. Anyway, it was poor Cameron's turn last night. The poor thing felt awful, so he went to bed early and didn't go to school today.

Luca only wanted the toy that Niko had (none of the others would do), and Niko was angry because Luca took his dressing up clothes. I then left the room for two minutes and came back to find that Niko had not only decided to put on Minttu's pink headband, but that he was wearing a dress and carrying a wand.

Then the two of them decided they wanted to put their fireman's and police officer's clothes on their teddies and started squealing when they wouldn't fit. Minttu decided she needed her hat, gloves and boots on even though we were inside, and got angry when we tried to take them off. Luca wanted juice but as soon as he got it didn't want it after all. Niko said he wanted porridge and then wouldn't eat it. Then he changed his mind again, finished his plate and wanted more. An hour later they were both hungry again. Minttu meanwhile mashed up her banana in her fingers and threw it all over the floor.

I didn't go near the computer all day. But then I had to write ONE email, as I had promised to send a document to a friend of mine. Of course exactly at that moment the computer would not work, the document would not load and the three little ones were annoyed because I wasn't singing "Tuikkii, tuikkii tähtönen...." (twinkle, twinkle little star) right then. The best laugh the little ones had all day was when they touched my nose and it said "beep." We did it lots of times.

Still, it's the end of the day now. Cameron is much better, the little ones are all asleep, Lucie is watching something rubbish on the tv (as usual) and I'm exhausted. There is only one thing I am certain about. I'm ready for bed.