The Bratz !

What a weekend, during a moment of madness we decided to take our niece and nephew overnight , they are 5 and 4 !! and usually hyper !!

They are a lovely wee pair, but are kinda used to getting their own way.

Nephew took the huff constantly when he wasnt allowed to do what he wanted which was to play the playstation, and the wii and the nintendo ds all at the same time !!!! he played it from he came home at half 5 till after 8 with only his dinner break in between...far too long as it was but he wasnt amused when it was time to top playing!!

Niece was appearing as an angel until she tried to swipe food from her uncles plate.....lol...silly girl,.... anyone knowing my other half knows how much he loves his food and how much of a cardinal sin this was !!

Then it was bath and bedtime...the usual hysterics about soap going in the eyes, and a slip and an almost burst chin ended the nice bubble bath !

Then they were asleep ahhhhhhhhh...

Then they woke......05.50am ! both of them !! Holy Moly, its Saturday Morning !!

We told them it was too early for a film to go on and to go back to sleep....finally relented at 06.50am and the film went on !! and they giggled and laughed and screamed and fought and banged each others heads off the wall, meanwhile i was holding davie back from banging down the wall, lol lol !

They were up and having breakfast by 08.30 am, and so were we!!

...and it began again....Nephew in a huff at not being able to play all 3 computers, Niece making sure i was dressing her little brother properly!!

Niece 'i dont think u have put pants on my little brother'

Me 'of course i have'

Niece 'well i cant see them, and he likes pants on under his jeans'

Me ' i assure u little 5 yr old girl, that there are pants on your little brother, who by the way is 4 and would alert me to the fact he has no pants on !!!!!!!!!!!'

Niece 'well i cant see them'

Me ' well u dnt really have to, as long as i know they r there'

Niece 'and are u going to put his socks'

Me 'what'

Niece 'well i mean he loves his socks on, and my mummy always puts his socks on'

Me 'nope im just going to let him run about outside in the ice in his bare feet'

Niece - gasps and walks away ensuring she remembers every word of the conversation to relay it to mummy when she goes home.......she loves telling tales'

At one point davie turned to me and said 200'000 (sperm count) seems like a really good number to me, in fact maybe a tad too many !!!

Oh no they have put him off !!!!!!!!

In between all this, we did have a nice time taking about Santa, and their santa letters even came through the door, and doing sums and spelling tests and fashion catwalks and silly stories, but they are hard work !!

It was so nice to hand them back and just have quiet again....

Im thinking its just because they arent ours and we would do some things differently with regards to their behaviour and their demands if they were our chidren .....

They have me worried that i can handle kids like them, and yet i adore kids!!

Im probably over analyzing the situation !