All My Children is in Production again

So she is a giver, but what do you do, when the giver is also a charmer, playing on every emotion.....

We have been having a little bit of trouble with The Red Head going to sleep.  She goes to bed at her normal time without a problem, it is what happens once she is in the bed, that is the problem.  She has to go to the bathroom, she needs a drink, her nose is running, her socks are bothering her.  We have begun a check list to take care of all these things before she gets in the bed.  However, she has now started singing and kicking the walls and various other noise making tactics.  This wouldn't be a problem, but she shares a room with Hadley aka The Drama Queen.  I'm honestly not sure which is worse, trying to whip Ellison in to submission or quiet Hadley's histrionics about how tired she is and can't sleep because Ellison is D.I.S.T.U.R.B.I.N.G. her...it is total Susan Lucci...All My Children Daytime Emmy award winning year material here folks.  It is enough to make me want to curl up in the fetal position, cry uncle and declare how wrong I was to ever think I could be a parent.  This cartoon totally captures my feelings  on our nightly routine.  

Wayne typically is bad cop, because I just don't have the patience or the will power to go in there 2 or 7 times. I tend to pretend the house is quiet and I don't hear A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G.....then I kind of blow and it isn't pretty, but any who...Wayne wasn't home Sunday night he went to watch the Superbowl, which meant I had to put on some kind of cop hat and make the madness stop. When I went in the first time, I went in packing heat, we are going to nip this thing by golly...."If you don't lay down and go to sleep, you are going to get a switch, do you understand me??? Not another word....." Ellison through tears , wailing, sniffling and fake coughing "B.U.T I'M Y.O.U.R B.A.B.Y............." Yes, yes you are and I'm going to go back to the couch now and pretend I don't hear a word. Carry on, master manipulator, carry on!!!!