Sleepless Night

It always amuses me somewhat that even now we get lulled into a false pretence by Boy Wonder, thinking that after a busy day yesterday that he would actually sleep last night. In fact he managed to stay up until 5am! We put him to bed at 11pm after failing to settle him downstairs. He woke us up at 2am and right through to 3 am saying that he couldn't sleep. He informed us that he had made use of his time by reading 'The Twits' and then reading about deadly creatures in one of his fact books. After  writing a poem and doing several word searches he said that he couldn't make himself tired.

I decided to get into bed with him and use firm hold to try and get him to sleep but after a further hour this wasn't having the desired affect. I then found his old weighted blanket and put that on his back and eventually he fell to sleep, it was just after 5am!

We had made plans to go out with grandparents today, some National Trust place to blow the cob webs away. However, due to Boy Wonder's late night we stayed in this morning and went out after dinner instead. Boy Wonder got up about 10am and after a lengthily shower was very spritely!

After a brief visit from cousin to get some eggs,we had a cooked brunch. Boy Wonder ate well and then got ready to go out.

We picked up the grandparents and drove to Calke Abbey. It was icy cold and a little bit drizzly but nether the less was lovely. Boy Wonder found a fabulous tree where he could crawl into it and put his head through a large branch . Cat Girl joined him for a photo. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=621318904572464&id=559661697404852&substory_index=0

We then went for a hot chocolate and onto the park. Boy Wonder bought some gems from the shop that the lady told him were rare! He was very excited by this.

We headed off home to settle in front of the fire and to watch a film. Cat Girl then went up to bed, quickly followed by Boy Wonder who settled down to play FIFA14. He came back downstairs with a code breaker for me to solve so obviously got bored of the game quite quickly. I feel that the earlier day ban we put on Minecraft has caused him too flit between activities and not settle.