Sleeping arrangements

I'm not sure how it happened but on Thursday night, Seb asked if Sophie could sleep in his bed. Since this is my ultimate goal for 2009-2010, I was game. Sophie hates being put into her cot awake and throws out every single thing that it contains in RAGE. So she wanted to get into Seb's big kid bed and she did - all through the night, no problem.

Only problem was getting them to sleep. They talked, fought over who knows what, read books together, hogged blankets, got up for drinks and more books, argued some more about who got to hold Brad doll, etc etc etc. It was past 9.30 before it got quiet... Seb does wake up first, and sharing a bed, he woke up Sophie too.

But the next night they wanted to do it again. It took the same amount of time for them to fall asleep. This time, I moved young miss to her cot, so she could sleep in a bit in the morning.

But last night, we said no. They just aren't ready and are missing out on much-needed sleep. So Sophie raged and pointed indignantly at her brother's bed. Seb was a great big brother and ran interference (don't shoot the messanger, Soph, but mum and dad say that we can't have juice after we brush our teeth... What book do you want, sis? ... You want all the toys that you flung out in rage???).

So we are back to separate beds, Sophie sleeping a little longer, and still very late fall-asleep times.