Jamie made a comment yesterday “I want the old Reagan back, because this is hard work!”

I was skeptical at just a few weeks old whether a schedule was right for Reagan and what benefits there would be, but as usual mommy was right. We have had it easy because of the schedule mommy set out and the routine we stick to everyday, Reagan knows what is coming and when and it just works. It makes life so much easier that we can apply it anywhere even if we are 4500 miles away or at home Reagan recognises the routine and the schedule slips into place.

Since our return home Reagan has had to cope with jet-lag, teething and starting to walk all huge things in her mind and all need to be sorted out before she returns to a settled happy and content child she was a week ago and beyond. Last night we started bedtime a little later so that I could do it with mommy and hopefully get Reagan asleep without the drama of previous nights, and it worked. Bath-time was fun with loads of splashing and plenty of Tsunami’s, which she loves, and then lotion and jama’s followed by medicine to help with the teething topped off with laying in dads arms drinking milk while she drifts off to sleep no crying or any drama at all! (Having returned from the pub I may and I repeat may have nodded off too momentarily waking up to some practical joker moving the clock in the whole house forward 2 hours?)

Anyway, I gently laid her in her cot and joined mommy in bed and that was the last we heard from Reagan who is still asleep now at 08:50am so we could be almost back to normal finger crossed making our lives a lot easier?

Quick update on Reagan walking, she isn’t!

Although she is standing un aided a lot more now even in the bath as she points towards the toothbrushes reminding me we haven’t brushed out teeth yet lol (She actually does!)

Mommy rang me yesterday to say she had just seen Reagan walk from the chair to the sofa without holding on to anything but even though she had the camera at the ready for the rest of the day she didn’t do it again.

It won’t be long and could possibly be this weekend I just hope both of us are there to witness it

Since returning home on Tuesday we have all suffered jetlag and Mommy and Reagan have a cold too, so its been especially hard to recover 🙁

When we got home momma was finished, just nothing left in the tank so she went to bed while Reagan played in the living room watching CBeebies. I wanted to stay awake so I set about the cases emptying them and doing several washes and dried them all and mowed the lawn, part way through this Reagan was showing all her tired signs so I made a brew settled her down and she fell straight to sleep. I carried on with what I was doing allowing Mommy 4 hours and Reagan 3 hours

I lasted till 9pm but had to go to bed

LOL I started this last night but I fell asleep writing it!

Wednesday night was tough…. Reagan was just confused! We as adults can make decisions based on knowledge but Reagan just knows when she is tired she sleeps and when she’s not tired she causes HAVOC lol. Jamie decided that because I was returning to my new job again on Thursday it should be down to her to sort Reagan out and I should sleep downstairs so not to be disturbed which I sort of agreed with and this is what we did. I fell straight to sleep around 10:30pm but was awoken by a VERY frustrated and tired mommy at around 02:30am.

It was immediately apparent that I needed to take over which I did allowing Jamie to go to bed and Reagan and I went downstairs where I allowed her to do what she wanted for 30 minutes at which point I switched the telly (the only source of light) off. She was sooo cute at this point she looked around as if to say WTF, crawled over to me and lay down and went to sleep, and although I didnt get too much sleep because of little miss COUGH SNORE TRUMP THRUTCH pants at least my two girls got some rest.

Thursday we decided mommy’s job was to keep the Reaganator AWAKE….ALL DAY…which she did apart from when mommy momentarily went to the bathroom leaving a rumbumtuous Beaganator bouncing off the walls crawling all over the place, only to return two minutes later to a sleeping chicken noodle butt…?

Last night was a little better although we kept Reagan up an hour longer she did wake around ten and scream the place down for a while going back to sleep at times until around 1am mommy finally got her to sleep and we all made it through to 06:30 without a murmer, and some of us managed to make it through to 09:30….the laaaazy…..

Its Friday night now and Reagan is asleep, she did scream for about 20 minutes but as I left the bathroom I couldn’t help but smell why she was screaming! I summoned mommy’s help…I mean second opinion, and after a clean nappy was applied I got her off again and she will hopefully stay asleep, but only time will tell?

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