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

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

Another okay night last night, I think her teeth must have settled for a min. Changing DD is her room this morning and DS shouts 'mummy I've opened the window for the cat to come in' he's managed to work out how to push the button in and open it. Now I've got to try and find the window keys.

My friends are down from Kent today so we're meeting up at my other friends house who had a baby a couple months ago. I'm really looking forward to it, no children are coming with me either.

Morning everyone, I feel like I've been up all night with DS2 and then everyone was up at 5.35. The Tele has been on since 6.30. DS2 has screamed at everything since getting up, I can't stand screaming it's worse than crying. DH is taking DS1 shopping now so me and Ds2 are going to potter about and do some house jobs.

@Motherofmonsters, hope you enjoy your peace time this afternoon and glad you had a good night.

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

Morning everyone, so sorry I haven't responded. Firstly thank you to you all for the advice and tips on little ones colic. We did the biking exercise and had colief, he seems a lot calmer and slept better last night.

My toddler is now playing up, he's completely refusing all meals and snacks no matter what I give him! His behaviour has also changed, he's not interested in any of his toys or activities I try to do with him. I took him garden centre yesterday and whilst waiting to pay he yanked my hair so hard...I couldn't even look back at the people behind us. Just wanted to have a massive cry. It's always one thing after another!

@Motherofmonsters glad to hear you had a good night. Hope you have a lovely day today, I love meeting friends when child free - I feel a bit more like a 'real person'!

@Chocolatetrifle sorry to hear about the rough night. Hope you manage to squeeze some rest in somewhere today.

@pinklashes98 glad to hear your little one is coping a bit better! Sending support for your toddler situation. Toddlers are such strange and wonderful creatures with behaviours that sometimes make no sense...

We had a relatively quiet night apart from the fact DS seems to have some kind of cold, so I had to do the snot sucking thing before feeding him during the night which obviously did not go down well. And we were up at 5.20am as usual. I actually felt pretty awake, so we played games and even went outside a little...now I'm really struggling though, and having to digest loads of info on this course is not helping my energy levels. DH has taken DS to his parents' for the day though, so at least I have some peace on that front!

Hope everyone is having a great day

Hope everyone’s having a nice day so far!

@Checkingout811 I’ll be moving back to East Yorkshire, all my family are there and frankly are bloody lovely so will absolutely help. We need to get DP’s work to formalise contractually his WFH 3/4 days a week as he will be fine to commute one of two a week.

@Motherofmonsters sounds fab! Being you again!

@Chocolatetrifle I hate screaming too, turns me into a shouty mummy.

@pinklashes98 you can cope, let him refuse food, I sometimes just leave a sarnie out for s and he’ll eat it when he wants.

Weather forecast said it would be dry so we went to the park with some sarnies. Obviously it utterly pissed it down about 10 mins after we got there. We were not in wet weather gear. So we had a coffee in the cafe, walked round the lake once the rain eased and came home. DP has taken DD to see his parents and DS is currently playing independently with duplo while I make a coffee/clean the kitchen/MN. I have no idea how I got him to play by himself but he’s being grand today.

Had to have a word with nursery yesterday. DS has bright ginger curly hair, it’s bloody beautiful, but when I picked him up he was close to tears telling me he didn’t want ginger hair, he wanted black hair, he couldn’t tell me if someone had said something or who, but someone has, I’m sure it’s not malicious but nonetheless he was upset. When we’re out and about people comment on his hair all the time to me. Spoke to the assistant manager and she was fab, she’s going to speak to the staff to make sure no ones pointing out his hair and on both his days next week they’ll do a bit on similarities and differences, it was just really reassuring that she instantly had a plan to address him being upset.

@pinklashes98, ah, glad baby had a better night. Hopefully toddler will settle down again soon. The hair pulling really hurts! Hope you feel a bit better about things today.

@squishymamma, hope DS gets over his cold. Can you get hold of the Caplol plug in where you are? I think it's great, it's really soothing too.

@MonkeyPuddle, sorry to hear your DS felt upset at nursery. Glad you had a word with the manager and that's brilliant they are going to tackle it next week. Hope DS is feeling better about things today.

The sun is out here, for a bit anyway. It's my birthday next week, so I'm ignoring the tiredness and we are having some family over later for food, cake and more importantly bubbles, (and not the blowing make the kids happy type but pass the glass and make Mummy happy type 🥂🍾! ) Hurrah!

@pinklashes98 never mind what the people behind you think! Bloody toddlers can be horrible and their shift in personality can be a shock. I'm sure they all return to their nice selves at some point

How is everyone's day going? It's torrential here so we're stuck at home again. Luckily PIL took them to a massive park for the day yesterday. They've been playing relatively nicely today which is good. DS has made walkways all over with his books which DD is enjoying walking on.

Evening! I've been a bit absent as this course is really demanding and of course we watched Eurovision last night which finished at 1am our time, and DS was up at 5...not optimal sleep.

DH took DS to see some friends today, apparently he was a ray of sunshine the whole time and then fell asleep in his own bus seat on the way home. Super cute. What's less cute is that he's now either overtired or just not tired and is bouncing around his crib without a care in the world. I just want to sleep!

@MonkeyPuddle so good to hear nursery has such a plan and it's so readily available. Hope it gets through to DS, I don't really understand this total hate of ginger hair (some of my family make similar jokes sadly) because I think it's beautiful!

@Chocolatetrifle hope you had a good celebration! Happy birthday in advance!

We've had a nice day We went to my parents house for my dad's birthday brunch and DS1 and I made a massive birthday cake. Took both DC to mum's local playground and DS1 made a friend, now just watching Messy on cbeebies while DH heats up brunch leftovers and oven pizza.

DS2 had a late afternoon nap though so I don't think I will have a good night tonight

It's rained here most of the day but we managed a playground visit this morning. We have been to see the in-laws ( or the out-laws as I like to call them !). It's lovely to be indoors with them now.

I have spent a lot of time today trying to fix and sort my laptop which I need for work and which is now broken. This has been caused either by DS1 pouring water on it yesterday or the update it was trying to do. I suspect it is the former!

DH is off tomorrow so we are going to a soft play centre. They have removed the ball pits and replaced them with trampolines and limiting the number of people in at any one time so we will see how it goes.

Hope everyone is ok.

Hi everyone! Busy day today. We had our friends daughters 2nd birthday today, a bbq and garden party; the rain held off until 4pm so that was a relief. DC all absolutely loved it even DS1 (autism) had a fab day!
All 3 were asleep for 6.30pm, WIN!!

Hope you can fix the laptop @Chocolatetrifle

I had my first appointment today for the termination at 11 .. took the first tablet and back Tuesday for the rest. Have to stay in hospital because I’ve had 3 c sections.
Just want to thank you all for your support, it’s been extremely hard but I know we’re making the right decision for our family and especially DS1.

Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend! Much planned this week? DH is having Tuesday & Wednesday off to collect me Tuesday and then make sure I rest Wednesday.
Tomorrow the boys are at nursery 8-4 so I’m doing the food shop, will clean the house and then rest!

@Checkingout811 just wanted to say this last message read so much happier than your previous ones, and I'm really glad you came to the decision that works best for your family. We'll be here if you need support throughout and afterwards sounds like you had a great day today too, I love it when everything just goes so smoothly!

Thanks @squishymamma ❤️❤️❤️
I am sure we’ve made the right decision.
I’m happy with my family, happy with our life, happy that we can provide emotionally, physically and financially for the 3 we have. I know that I wouldn’t have the capacity for 4. I wouldn’t get the 1-1 time with them all and it’s not fair.
Ultimately, I knew we had to put the DC we already have first.
Your support really did mean the world to me. I did tell my sister in the end and she was supportive too. She knows how difficult it can be sometimes with my eldest son and was really supportive.

Hiya, just peeking round the door? I've posted on these threads before. Just finding it a bit tough atm and thought you lot would understand.

Our twins are 3y3m so I guess not strictly toddlers but OMG. This weekend! DT1 has developed this horrible habit of spitting all the time. It's so grim. DT2 has always been "assertive" but the cheekiness is off the scale right now. Bedtimes are tough. Last night I found both of them in DT1's cot, having BOTH had poos and BOTH stuck their hands down their pull ups 😥😥

They also sing at the top of their voices for ages after bedtime, cackling and winding each other up.

It's like having two 3' tall violent drunks upstairs.

Yesterday I went outside and washed the wheels on the car just to get away for 15 mins 😕

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff oh gosh that sounds tough!!!
You’re more than welcome, my DS1 is 3y5m so don’t worry, never too old for support ❤️

Are they in seperate cots usually? Can they climb out? My eldest DS spits out his drinks it’s disgusting but I have no advice unfortunately.
Have you told them sternly no? Is he/she spitting drinks or just spit?

Yes they each have their own cot but only the girl can climb out. I daren't put them in proper beds as afraid they'd go mad.

Just spit mostly, like a very messy raspberry. No is the word he hears most often!! He still thinks he is hilarious

They are also very sweet. At times.....

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff oh god I agree about beds! The reason I’m not putting my youngest in one yet 😂🙈

Wish I had some advice. Do they go to nursery or pre school so you get a break? Hopefully it’s a phase they will grow out of.

Hello mums and toddlers, I'm joining this thread for inspiration on what everyone else is doing with their little ones during the week. Im Elley, mum to 3. My middle one and youngest seem to be climbing the walls at home even though I seem to have spent tons on toys during lockdown!

I have ds 5 (6 in September), ds2 who has just turned 3 and dd who is 13 months...eldest is at school 5 days a week and ds2 is at nursery 2 days a week. I don't drive so we're stuck to bus routes only. The softplays have reopened here but they're almost impossible to get to without a car - all the ones that were in walking distance have closed due to the pandemic and church hall groups that we used to hang out at haven't reopened. I miss church hall groups the weeks feel really long and lonely....a franchise music group has started sessions at the local church hall but for five, half hour sessions it was nearing £40 to take the youngest two...and it seemed a bit steep for them just to be dancing in a room haha. Im becoming so fed up of the monotonous days though.

Looking forward to chatting to you all x

Welcome @diddlediddlehey, that's frustrating that everything near you has shut down. Hopefully something will open up for you soon. Only one church hall group has opened up here, we've had to pre-book on, probably a good idea else she would have to turn people away with the amount of people who want to go.

DS has been back to Preschool today, I think he had a good day but he was sad because Charlie said he wasn't his friend any more and Freddie was now his best friend. I really thought it would be a while before I had to deal with this stuff.

Tomorrow I've got a playdate with someone I never met before in person, shall hopefully be fun. I'm going to her house as the weather is horrendous, hopefully I won't get locked in.

Welcome, @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff and @Diddlediddlehey!

The twins situation is definitely not something I've experienced! Sending support and hoping this phase goes over for you soon. Totally understand the needing to get away though, sometimes i take longer to get back up to the apartment than I need to if I've been off out somewhere...milk it for all it's worth!

Also totally get the monotonous days, if DS wasn't in nursery I literally have no idea what we'd do. We go outside a lot, to playgrounds or just outside our block as he likes playing in the grass (he's 15 months)... he also loves water so I fill some containers up in the bathroom and he plays with those for a while. Saw a play idea on Instagram where they give children a container of water and a brush and they paint the pavement, planning to try that one day.

I'm finally done with my course and totally drained...think it'll be bed before 9pm tonight. Looking forward to normal service resuming! DS has been with the in laws all day and is all smiles and sunshine so that's a positive...no idea how bedtime will go though.

Hope everyone has peaceful nights with much sleep!

Morning everyone 🙌

Raining here, again. I'm very much looking forward to it drying up and the sun coming out soon hopefully. Have had the Galt magic painting book and the paint sticks out also some large Pom poms, paper cups and mega blocks, which are now all over the floor.

We went to the soft play centre yesterday. DS1 loved it but DS2 was not sure, don't think he was used to the noise. He didn't want me to put him down at all.

Hope the playdate goes well @Motherofmonsters, let us know how it goes

Ooo @Motherofmonsters is this someone that youve found on a mums meet up app? Hope it goes well!

I'm full of cold, thankfully D's is in nursery so I'm going to have a day of doing nothing! I have done a covid test just in case and it's negative.

Yep someone I met on 'mummy tinder' I'm hoping it goes okay. DS is very excited, we're going after lunch so he keeps asking if it's lunchtime.

DS has been outside washing the little tike cars again, it's sunny at the moment and shock raining later on. DD was doing her usual of playing with the little decorative stones in the plant pots.

Preschool have asked for us to practice lots of turn taking games with DS to help with his sharing and playing with others. Amazon have a sale on Orchard Games so I've got a bit excited and ordered lots. What do you do if they won't take it turns properly? Put the game away, or just go with it?

I hope your cold doesn't hang around long @pinkdaydreams