...to say Christmas with a toddler is bloody nightmare?

[BusyCee]

He's a whiny bastard.

He wakes up at 530am.

He shouts. All the sodding time.

He has no impulse control.

He can spill liquid even when he's nowhere near it.

He repeats himself. Constantly. And needs a response from me each time.

He shoves DS1 about. He's ham fisted with baby DD.

He infuriates me and I love him.

How old? DS is 3.5 and being very hard work today. He's had too much sugar which doesn't help

Can I add daily wrecking of my tree - so much so I plan to redress it tonight for tomorrow's photos!

Savaging the rolls of wrapping paper whenever they are within her reach.

Just making a fuss while I try and do ANYTHING!

Our tree is behind a playpen wall, not pretty but helps a lot. Toddler is nearly 2 and we are also not planning on leaving the house, huge respect to those catering for big groups etc, no way we would manage.

We don't have a tree. Ds is now tall enough and can climb enough to reach it and dismantle it wherever we put it.

Put presents under the tree as we were having tea, mainly for 5yo. As the toddler passed he managed to pocket what I now know to be a tin of biscuits from a friend and unwrap it. He's like a loud and ungrateful Artful Dodger. I can only hope his criminal antisocial streak will either a) pass with time or b) prove to be lucrative... Little rotter

Merry Christmas, sympathies and , All

My ds are 17 & 13. Toddler years go so quickly, it is very very hard work, but you will miss these years when they're gone.
Don't try to be the perfect Christmas, just take your time and if you need a nap mid-afternoon when you put the tinies down, then take one.
Enjoy.......& don't forget to put a carrot out for Rudolf! (I sooooo miss that)

Ds is just 2.

He is a 1 man wrecking crew. Got gunky conjunctivitis eyes and a smokers cough but still adorable. He got into my mums bedroom today and started on the presents.

He gets in the dogs crate and asks for a sossage.

Tries to climb the tree daily at least.

Is in full control of the tv 'meemote'.

Bosses 11 year old dd around terribly.

And gets away with it all because he just says 'sowwy mummy, my bad'. I have no idea whatsoever where he got that phrase from but because it's so funny when he says it especially with his hands up I can't help laughing at him.

YANBU. Just-3yo DD has munched her way through 5 advent calendars and would probably have kept going if I hadn't stopped refilling it in the hope that she'd leave it alone the next time. Today I had to leave a garden centre cafe without having any lunch because DD and 5yo DS were chasing each other around the tables. Then this evening DD howled non-stop for half an hour because the panto had finished and she wanted to see Buttons Luckily she fell asleep in the car and went to bed without a peep.

YANBU. Today has been a struggle and she's not even old enough to understand what's happening exactly. Some change has come over her in the last week, which seems to involve a lot of screaming, over-tiredness, breaking stuff, and pinching. We call ours 'The Gremlin'.
I've not bothered with any dangling tree decorations this year, bought a tree with inbuilt lights, and have added tinsel and something at the top only. I'm incredibly impressed we haven't had any presents unwrapped, but I think that's down to hiding the pretty ones with bows at the back, and placing the plain-wrapped at the front.
She's lucky so cute.

I replaced all my naice baubles with bouncing shatterproof ones. Just as well, as she's undecorated the tree ten times a day since its gone up. She doesn't even understand Christmas this year, I'm already dreading next year.

My 21mo has chosen this week to have some sort of hideous sleep regression. We are all exhausted, she was too tired to eat properly today. Plus we have to fit Xmas cooking and eating around her nap.
I can't wait to see her little face in the morning when she sees her pressies though.

I have a one year old DS and three year old DD.

Father Christmas came today (we're in Sweden)

FC (hands over present): Here you go DD
DD: Thank you!

FC (hands over present): Here you go DS
All: And what do you say DS??!
DS: More!

I'm sure he'll get there...

Agreed! Also mine gets unbearable if we're stuck in the house for too long, so we'll need a trip out on xmas day even though the forecast is heavy rain & we live in a v rural area. So waterproofs & puddles here we come, whilst it feels like the rest of the world is watching a good film, eating chocolates whilst wearing a onesie!

Sympathy with the repetition OP. DS (2.5) has been on and on and on about going on the train for months. Finally broke down and took him to Cambridge and back (didn't even get off) just in the hope he'd change the record. Someone in the carriage had puppies.

It. Was. Carnage.

Came home, had a fit, asleep at six thirty (result!)

Ah yes.

DD2 (3) has been arguing with DD1 (6) since the school holidays started.

Ds (2) is a screaming wrecking ball.

Didn't bother decorating the bottom of the tree as between ds and the kittens it had no chance.

I made mine go for a walk in the rain today just to wear them out, they were still up at 9.30pm though.