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  • edinburgher
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    A false dawn?

    Thought DD had decided to use her own bed again, only to be met with the eerie figure of my tiny little redhead peering over the side of our bed at 1 in the morning! Back to the couch for me...

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  • elantan
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    ed I now have an image of your daughter looking and acting like the wee lassie from Brave ... I love that lassie' s character, I have no doubt her parents characters found her exasperating at times though :)

    wonderful to be back catching up again ... you'll need to pm me where your staying now ... I remember talking to u about where j fancied and wonder of you got there

    love to all xxx
  • Karmacat
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    Thought DD had decided to use her own bed again, only to be met with the eerie figure of my tiny little redhead peering over the side of our bed at 1 in the morning! Back to the couch for me...

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Awwwww!
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  • Suffolk_lass
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    Is hers a small bed still? may be time to consider a 4ft bed in her room so you can go back to her bed with her and lay with her there. It's a way of reinforcing that that is where she sleeps. At the moment she sees you and Mummy together and thinks she should join you. At least you would get some proper sleep in a big-enough bed
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  • edinburgher
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    elantan wrote: »
    ed I now have an image of your daughter looking and acting like the wee lassie from Brave ... I love that lassie' s character, I have no doubt her parents characters found her exasperating at times though :)

    wonderful to be back catching up again ... you'll need to pm me where your staying now ... I remember talking to u about where j fancied and wonder of you got there

    love to all xxx

    She's not curly, but not unlike a tiny Merida :)

    Will PM you.
    Suffolk_lass wrote: »
    Is hers a small bed still? may be time to consider a 4ft bed in her room so you can go back to her bed with her and lay with her there. It's a way of reinforcing that that is where she sleeps. At the moment she sees you and Mummy together and thinks she should join you. At least you would get some proper sleep in a big-enough bed

    Is a 4' bed a double bed? Because the wee punk can easily pinch 1/2 a king size bed! :eek: We are planning on moving her to a double bed, probably after our holiday in May (can rearrange her furniture and move the armchair downstairs).

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    Enjoy the butterfly farm :)
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  • badmemory
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    4ft is queen size, so about 6 inches narrower than a double & 1 ft than a king. Maybe a "you'll have to budge up" might make her value her own bed space more.
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    badmemory wrote: »
    4ft is queen size, so about 6 inches narrower than a double & 1 ft than a king. Maybe a "you'll have to budge up" might make her value her own bed space more.

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    Maybe a "you'll have to budge up" might make her value her own bed space more.

    I find any response other than moving gets you an accidental? kick in the throat from a sleeping toddler :rotfl:
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    A double bed for a toddler?! You are mad, Ed!

    Get her a single else she will think it normal for one tiny human to have a double bed!

    They will have to invent a quadruple if she ever gets married!
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