Trapped toddler parents:"Where else can you post tuff tray pictures and moan about your husband?"

[PinkDaydreams]

Following on from the previous thread. Thanks @footprintsintheslow for the thread title inspiration 😁

Reporting for duty!

Still. No. Toddler. Groups. 😭 Just more quality time with a two year old...

I don't know what this group is, but it sounds like a group for me!
I have a two year old and twin one year olds and I want toddler groups and soft plays to open more than I want wine and a curry.

SEND HELP.

Reporting for whining about my life!

Yeeessss! Glad you all found it ok, hopefully the others will be along soon
Welcome @mumjustmum

Thank you for the new thread, @PinkDaydreams! Love the title.

Can I ask what you do with wet sand once finished with?! ds has been playing with his sand and water table and mixed it all up. I've had to throw it in the bin as not sure what to do with it? I know not to throw it down the drain and there was too much of it to leave out to dry, do you all throw it out? Seems a waste but I've learnt my lesson to not use as much sand!

Thanks @PinkDaydreams!

@PinkDaydreams I’m lazy, I would have left it in there 😂

Found you! Thank you for making a new thread, it gets me through the day. Hoping I can contribute more than moaning about sleep for this one!

I vote for the bin @PinkDaydreams, the green garden waste one if feeling in the mood, the black normal one if in a bad mood. I'm so bad at recycling anything at the moment too, I have 2 blue bins as we have that much to recycle but half the time I'm too tired to wash things out so they go in the black bin too. God I sound so boring!

I just want a hot panini with chips from our local soft play as the food is actually epic. Or the nachos 🤤

We did breakfast cereals with diggers last week in our pop up tuff tray, luckily the kids helped clean up by eating some

Thanks Pinkdaydreams

Nothing exciting to report but marking my place before I forget.

Ahh I've given in again on the milk, she's just standing up screaming and screaming. I don't want her to wake DS as he's got Preschool tomorrow, I feel so deflated

That’s the best title 😆

@PinkDaydreams I would have left the sand too. They go through soooo much of it.

@Sleepisoverrated150 that’s a good tuff tray idea. We made a farm tray yesterday. DD just ate the uncooked pasta and dry weetabix. Fun!

@Motherofmonsters sorry you’re having a hard time with this. I don’t have any experience of night weaning. (My DD switched to bottles at 5 months). Would your DD take a cup or bottle style cup of milk instead?! I can let you know the names of ones we went onto.

@Motherofmonsters I’m presuming that you’re breastfeeding. Sorry if that’s wrong! (I haven’t read the thread from the start)

Hope I can jump on! Mother of 23 month old DD.
@Motherofmonsters I'm also trying to night wean. Had a couple of nights with no milk last week when I basically just said 'no' in the night but she's back on it now. I've tried watering down etc but haven't tried a cup yet.

Thanks for new thread! Up every two hours with DS which for 8 days old I'm taking as a win. DD starting to settle a little bit more, I'm glad she's still so little to be honest, won't be long before she doesn't even remember being an only child!

Got our first playgroup session this morning, very glad it's started back and looking forward to DD being able to get some decent play in with other kids!

Sorry to all those struggling with sleep/feeding. This too shall pass. But it sucks at the time!

Dd no longer a toddler but I do feel for you all. If I hadn’t been able to go to the library all the time and get endless (turns out you have to pay again after four) in Starbucks I never would have survived the early years.

Re washing out containers, be careful with the tins. I washed out one like a normal pot, don’t know why, and sliced my finger open.

Good morning everyone, hope everyone is ok.

Oh @Motherofmonsters,sorry it was a bad night. Are you ok? I have no advice just sending sympathy. I'm still feeding but from a bottle at night but trying to switch to water to see if DS2 will go for that but he still wants milk. I did this with DS1 but gave him milk in the night for a long time. It did eventually work.

DS1 has woken up in a much better mood. We have the inflatable musical instruments out and a proper recorder and ukelele so making a bit of noise. Will go out for buggy board walk and playground visit in a bit.

Oooo this might be the thread for me! I have a 27 month old who has broken her leg, her lovely childminder is closing and I'm trying to accelerate her getting into nursery so I can continue working. Oh and I'm trying to sort out SALT because she has a speech delay as well as getting her hearing checked.

We have lost her space at the only toddler group we can do as they won't hold it until she is out of her cast and they won't let her attend with it on due to the risk assessments.

To add to the stress I have an internal interview on Friday for a promotion and have just had to take time off as DD developed a temperature so now needs a covid test. I'm unreasonably upset at the timing as I've managed to convince myself that this means I won't have a chance at the promotion. Very tempted to just crawl back into bed and wait until a proper adult appears to take control!

@Motherofmonsters I night weaned very recently if you want to advice or want to know what we did let me know ☺️

Thank you everyone. She won't take a cup or bottle at night unfortunately, she acts like I'm trying to poison her. I think I just need to start again with what I did last time but ill have to wait until the weekend.

Welcome to all the new posters, this thread is a great place to be. That sounds really hard @definitelyodd, I'm sure it won't affect your promotion. Everyone is in the same boat with having to do tests

@DefinitelyOdd what a big stress. Everything happens at once :( hope you catch a break soon.

@Motherofmonsters it’s so hard at night when you just want to sleep! Supposedly it takes them 3 nights to get used to a change.. good luck xx

We are going out to local gardens today. I’m leaving the kitchen in a massive mess to deal with later 😄

Thanks for everyone's kind words. I think I just needed to write it all out and have a five minute silent scream!

DD is doing well and handled the test like a champion so fingers crossed the result comes back quickly (and is negative!).

Not sure what to do today, might dig out her old sensory kit and set her up with that while I do some housework.