2 Kids 1 Room-What Was I Thinking??!!!

My children have never shared a room before. We have always lived in a house big enough for everyone to have their own space.
Since moving into my mums house (while we await the arrival of number 3, before permanently moving to Tom Price) Miss5 and Mr3 have had to share a room.

I've heard stories of siblings sharing rooms and staying up till all hours talking. However my kids have always been good sleepers and big sleepers so I thought we would get away without too much drama.

I was clearly delusional.

The first night it took over 2 hours for them to fall asleep. And they started being stupid about this new toilet training routine. Miss5 would go to the toilet, then call out to her brother who would join her in the toilet, they would watch each other pee, giggle inappropriately and then wash their hands together-making as much mess and noise as possible. And they would get up 5 or 6 times an hour. Then in the morning they were awake by 5am doing the same thing.

The second night took just 45 mins for them to fall asleep. My two are used to sleeping 12 hour nights (since birth almost) so being awake so much was hard. It totally gave me a false sense of security though, I thought wow it's gone from 2 hours to 45 minutes in 1 night-that's good! But 5am the next day there they were again being silly with each other and coming and going from our bedrooms.

We are up to just over a week now and while they are going to sleep fairly easily at night time they are still up early about 6:30am.

I think I've figured it out though. Mr3 usually wakes at about 6-6:30 every morning and that's his quiet time. He usually sings songs while he waits for us to get him up, however now he wakes his sister up and they spend that usually nice hour, running amok through the house.

They are both extremely tired all the time at the moment, but thankfully it's just started school holidays. Maybe in another 2 weeks they will be sleeping later in the mornings.

When they first started playing up at night time mum suggested that one kid shares a room with an adult. However when we move to Tom Price they will also need to share a bedroom as all the company supplied houses are 3bedroom houses. So this is good practice for when we up there. They will need to get used to it and learn to get a good nights sleep with each other.

 I really hope they learn it sooner rather than later-we are all exhausted. I was looking forward to the holidays for the 8am sleep-ins the kids gave me last holidays. I dont think that's going to happen this holidays though.