To be finding DS annoying?

[Destinedtogo]

I know all children are annoying so I suppose I’m not unreasonable in that sense but I’m becoming increasingly frustrated by a pretend game DS is playing. He seems obsessed and lost in that game and I feel I can’t reach him as a result.

So today for example DS spent the morning at preschool. I know he had lots of outdoor play and also did some baking - great. Picked him up at midday and he just kept shouting ‘it’s a hose mummy. There’s a fire! It’s a hose!’

‘Did you enjoy baking your cake?’
‘there’s a fire!’
’did you play with your friends?’
’A hose mummy! A hose!’

His behaviour hasn’t been great over the last couple of days and if I try to speak to him about it he just keeps going on about fires and hoses.

Reading bedtime stories is a nightmare as all he wants are stories about Fireman Sam - apart from the fact they’re so boring whenever I turn the page he shouts FIRE.

I know he’s all a phase but AIBU to be finding this one exceptionally tedious?

Sometimes if you try to engage him in doing something he just refuses though. This does trouble me a bit because I worry he’s not going to be well prepared for school if he hasn’t had practice sitting and completing things, even basic things like jigsaws and colouring.

Do it yourself and then give yourself a round of applause. "Yay, clever mummy!" Worked every time with mine. "Only very clever people can do this..." never failed too when they were slightly older.