Things I wish I could fix about my son

There are some things that Julian does which I have no idea how to fix or stop:

Bleeding nose at night

The blood stained sheets and pillows, the dried blood all over his face and hands... GAH!  My mattresses and pillow all have blood stains on them and it drives me nuts.  I do have mattress protectors but stripping the bed every night to soak and wash sheets (especially in the middle of the night) just does my head in.  I have started putting cream/Vaseline in his nose to see if I can keep it moisturised and prevent more episodes, but if he is picking his nose at night... how do you stop that???  Very frustrating


Slipping his arms out of his seatbelt

Slipping his arms out of his seatbelt no matter how tight I put his seat belt is another irritating thing.  If only the harness clip was higher on his chest, then he wouldn't be able to get it out.  I tried tying it near his neck but he pulls that down and still slips his arms out, and he can lean forward to the chair in front and touch his head to it.  If the cops ever pull me over, I will be in big trouble.


Climbing, touching things, rolling the blinds down

This must just be naughty boy behaviour because my daughter never did it.  I keep trying to make him stop by taking him away and constantly telling him not to climb/touch it but he still does it.  Everyone says it's because he is spoilt and undisciplined.  But Erika would not touch things after being told, why won't he?  Even smacking doesn't work.  All I can do is continue to stop him from doing it and being consistent I guess.  But it is so hard when there don't seem to be results.

Waking up at 530am 
I am lucky that I get up early, so this doesn't bother me so much, but hubby is not an early person.  Going to sleep really late gets him up at 6am but I don't like him sleeping so late.  I like my kids going to bed between 730-830pm.  But he is a little alarm clock, most days he is up at 515am but he can sometimes be in bed till 6am if I'm lucky.  Not sure how to fix it though.  At least he knows that once it's 6am it's time to get out of his room

A woeful wednesday

Had a dreadful day yesterday.  Started out with a call from Nanny M who wondered where the kids were and I forgot to tell her that the kids weren't coming this week.  She seemed rather unhappy and I felt bad so I apologised profusely and then she told me that she was relying on that money this week and now she's really short.  So I made a compromise and paid her $240 as a short notice cancellation fee and gave next week's money in advance.  And she said everything was ok but she had to bring it up.  So now we're all ok, but I felt terrible about that.

Then I spoke to mum who said that I spoil Julian, and that dad thinks I do as well.  I think his exact words were "Typical, they spoil the son."  I never meant to spoil him!  He cries a lot and comes to us and he stops after we give him food so I thought he might be hungry!  Mum said I was rewarding his crying with food, and thus reinforcing his bad behaviour.  And that he climbs on everything, touches everything and isn't told off.  But that's not true, we treat him the same as Erika, and Erika grew out of the touch everything stage, and we hoped Julian would as well.

Then I was on call in the evening and I got called in at 1am and had to stay at work until almost 4am, with a patient who was having a cystoscopy which turned into an SPC and he developed pulmonary oedema and I had to reintubate him and send him to ICU ventilated.

Litterbug :(

Ugh I had a terrible moment today, I drove off in my car and the drink I had left on top of my car fell off as I turned a corner....

I should have stopped and picked it up and thrown it away, but I didn't.  That would be the first time I had deliberately littered in like... since High School.

If I see it there the next time I go back I'll go pick it up.