Lynette "Give me your toddler who spends 12 hours out of 24 asleep" ???
So you are very selective about which toddlers you want then, some sleep 12 hours, mine has only slept "through" 3 nights in his life, none of them recently - and those rare nights of sleeping "through" were more like 8pm to 5am, not 12 hours! (He and I have been up an hour already this morning, and up more times than I can count in the night).
I have never met anyone else who's toddler would stand for 3 hours on a railway bridge happily and safely, and I used to childmind toddlers.... Could you be one of those mums of older children who has slightly edited and rose tinted your memory of the toddler years?
My toddler likes to climb anything and everything when he is awake, and he never stays still except during the 45 mins he naps for. He is lovely though :)
My nearly 5 and nearly 7 year olds are much easier because they play together and play out with their friends, and can walk out the gate without running in front of a car, can walk into the playground without making a beeline for the big slide ladder and falling backwards from half way up, have concentration spans of over 3 minutes etc. They do bicker a bit but they don't plot each others' murders and do get on well, and are quite a team.
We do get decent weather here though - better than the UK anyway.
The holidays don't make much difference to my toddler though (except that his older siblings are home) as all those toddler activities don't really exist where we live, and I run the toddlers groups so I'm keeping it open all summer :)