Do I win the weirdest in laws?

[curiousgeorgie]

Aside from giving my DD a sandwich at 11 weeks and wondering why she didn't eat it... And finding a 3 week old ungrateful of her Christmas presents....

Tonight we've come home just after midnight, and found that both DD's are happily in bed. Beautiful. DD1 is in my bed but that's okay...

I go up there, and she's in leggings and a jumper. Bizarre PJs but again, okay. Until I think... I recognise those clothes... And they look pretty tight!!

They've taken off DD2's clothes and put them on DD1 as pyjamas.

And yes.

Vice versa.

(Happy new year! Especially to 1 year old DD2 in her bedtime party dress!!)

My DH put a top meant for our 1 year old DS on to our 3 year old DS. He wore it all day under a jumper so I never noticed. I had to cut the 3 year old out of it or risk pulling his ears off while trying to remove it. The thing ended at his belly button and the sleeves finished at his elbows.

My DH wasn't drunk when he put it on, just a twat.

My XH once put on DD2's pants sideways, so the leg hole was round her waist. Now, she was about 2 at the time and all her pants had pictures or bows on the front so she could tell which side was which. he couldn't even figure out that the picture was on sideways! Likewise with her days of the week pants a couple of years later. He got her thoroughly confused by insisting she wear Saturday's pants on Wednesday! What a waste of space!

That is definitely a winner and I'd definitely be reconsidering my child care options!

I don't generally, last night we went to the house over the road for New Years and the idea was that MIL & FIL would just sit downstairs and they would be in bed but it worked out a bit differently...

DH is going to ring MIL now, I'll report back!

I would seriously want to know why this happened

She said 'did I?!'

It was the most frustrating phonecall in the world.

(And now more worrying than funny actually!!)

It is funny but also worrying, are they okay otherwise?

Just reading about all these weird gandparents and remembered that my mum got my dcs a tub of mealworm each for xmas this year. neither of them fish so when asked why she got it she just said "as a joke" but with the most chilling look i have ever seen. I huddled the children close and slowly backed away

A friend's mum did things like this when looking after her grandchildren and unfortunately it was the beginnings of dementia. Is that a possibility?

It does seem odd to have managed to mix them up - have the other incidents you mentioned all happened recently as well?

SurlyCue- that is terrifying! Does you mum have form for his kind of thing?

No, the other things were more than 3 years ago and 18 months ago.

DH doesn't think it's bizarre.

(Seriously!)

That's all pretty weird :) I agree. Babies are so unappreciative I totally agree. You love, cuddle, feed, bathe, clothe, entertain and nurture them and what do they do - scream! Little ingrates the lot of em.

SurlyCue- that is terrifying! Does you mum have form for his kind of thing?

No, she will do things like putting a gift inside an old box that a toaster came in to make me think ive got a toaster (instead of the lovely handbag that is actually inside) but usually she is pretty sane!

The first time my grandfather babysat me, my mum came home to find me safely tucked up in my cot, in my pyjamas/sleepsuit but looking slightly pink and a bit tubbier than usual. It turned out he had just put the sleepsuit over my daytime clothes so I was wearing three layers and a jumper underneath!

Obviously that was just him being unsure what to do though. This is a new level of weirdness. It's possible they just got into a tizz or took advice from the three-yr-old... But their previous form does suggest something either deliberate or health-related. Hope they are just a bit eccentric.

Just read the OP out to DP and DS, age 8 was listening. His expert opinion-they are having a mental breakdown!

I would be inclined to agree, especially after the 'Did I?' comment this morning.

if they didn't bath the children I wood wonder why they deny the bed to completely undress them and swap clothes...if they couldn't remember doing it they would never be looking after my children again

would*

felt the need to undress them.....stupid autocorrect

I think it's worryingly weird. How can they possibly think a sparkly dress is suitable nightwear?

My ds2 loves to strip to his bare bum any chance he gets. Is it possible your dcs decided to strip and then when redressing them MIL got the clothes mixed up? Or maybe the dcs decided to swap clothes and refused to swap back again?

What a thick, ridiculous thing to do! They sound utterly stupid

Er, fanfeck what? Hold up there now one second...

Your uncle, a lecturer, so presumably an intelligent and broad minded person, spray painted someone's door with the words "inner city scum" because... why?

We're they really difficult during the negotiations? Not that that would justify your uncle's actions but I'm just confused by this. And entertained

*were they