How strong is your 20mo (or there abouts) ?

[DimplesOHara]

Dd has just turned 20months and can move & carry about a lot of heavy things. For example her 5yo cousin had a new bike and Dd wanted a go, so she picked it up in both hands and took in into the next room. She's also a little madam at climbing and thinks nothing of picking up a dinning room chair to where she wants to climb.
I'm not worried about her (except that she'll drop something heavy on herself) but wondered if most kids are like this or should I start her training for the 2025 Worlds Strongest Competition!

My 15month old dd is going to be a rugby player.

When she is out in the garden with her cousins she is forever charging at them and knocking them off there feet.

My 16 month old is stronger than me

DD2 is 18 months and yesterday she picked up a 4kg bag of bird food as it was in her way on the patio. I was pretty impressed!

I just said to Dd "go get ur juice so mammy can fill it up" she came back into the kitchen holding a 3ltr bottle of squash in each hand by the handles (I think she was thirsty!

I think we should start a toddler rugby club with all these super strong tots!

Funniest thing I've read today (and having been up since 4am with my early waking 2 year old DS, gawd knows I needed it!).

DS is being sold to the circus. He's the height of a three year old and will happily drag furniture, gym weights, toy boxes and once the kitchen table, to wherever he wants them to be (normally against the dining room table so he can reach the fruit bowl).

He also has laser like vision for spotting biscuits/snacks/anything of mine which looks breakable/shiny and hearing like a bat. I only have to whisper the phrase 'dinner's on the table' and he's like a rabbit out of a trap.

I'm sensing a theme here.. Are all your toddler's demanding and have the appetite of an adult too? DS ate a 2 egg omelette the other night and breakfast yesterday was a large bowl of cereal, a banana, half a slice of toast and a huge orange.. On both occasions he preceded to ask for more!

cupoftea my DD eats like a horse, her plate is often fuller than mine! She's not greedy though & will push her plate away when she's had enough, but I dispaire when its the last two days before the monthly shop coz that's when she seems to want more food than ever!
Also v v demanding, will push your legs uncrossed if you don't pick her up RIGHT THIS MINUTE & will push inbetween you can the counter top if you stop her from going in the cupboard, & I ain't that light to push!

Can I sign DS up for the mn toddler rugby team? 21mo, 94cm tall, 35lb. Shoves the diningroom table with his shoulders like rugby players use those scrum machines!

Also demanding and eats like an adult.

We are getting a pro coach in for this, right? We're not expected to get them to follow the rules ourselves ?

My dd isn't demanding denial she'll just go and get it herself. Nothing is safe in this house.

Eats like a horse, even if she is choking she will NOT let go of her food. She just puts her hand over her mouth and tilts her head back.

Well if we're talking table manners DD will use her fork to pile food in, then grab a handfull of food and shove that in as well, usuing her fingers to keep in all on her mouth. Classy
I was thinking of more like an entire rugby squad to be the coaches tbh as we don't call DD 'the tank' for nothing and I ain't getting in her way!

Hilarious thread! LOVING all of these stories (another 4.30am wake up for us today, so needing the larfs).

DS eats like a Trojan. 'More, Mummy, more', is his most used phrase, and will eat adult portions, snacks, fruit, three weetabix and STILL has a big cup of milk before bed. he's the same weight as your DS, EBD, but a little taller.

Dimples, yep, sounds familiar. My DS has cheeks like a hamster AND I have caught him eating stuff he finds on the floor (not old muck, I just mean the odd shreddie from breakfast!).

Are we all tall lasses, or have tall partners? I'm 5.7, DP is, ahem, 6.7.

How old is your DS Shark? Mine wakes between 4.30-5.30 too. I am kind of hoping that can't go on much longer! This morning he was shouting 'MUMMY, ME UP!' at top volume at 4.10am... I was seriously considering freecycle.

I'm 5.7 and DH is 6.4 so yep, we're pretty tall.

to those with early waking toddlers, you deserve a medal, im lucky that DD likes her sleep and will fall asleep anywhere, but does use her sleep as a massive recharge and is non stop from the moment her eyes are open.
Both tall here to, im 6ft and Dh 6ft 4in, DD is about 2st 4lb (haven't been able to wrestle her onto the scales for a while) and 92cm. All built like the proverbial houses too lol
have a lot if problems with "kids under two are free" places though as DD looks older and is quite verbal, they always pull face, I often tell them that I was there at the borth so I should know how old she is!

We had a lie in this morning. 5.45!!!

I also get the face when I try to get him in to 'free under 2's' places. Especially when he's pulling on my arm saying 'Come on Mummy, in there.'

Have you measured your DC's chest? DS is 58cm round his chest which according to GAP puts him in a 4-5yo top . I buy his clothes in John Lewis boy and all his summer tshirts for this year are 4yo to fit his shoulders in.

TBH he looks like a miniature version of my dad who threw the discus for Yorkshire as a lad.

EBD - DS is almost 2. After two years of not much sleep, I am also considering freecycle/leaving him on the church steps. Women I met at ante-natal are on to baby number 2 whilst I am still recovering from the shock of the first...

Lord, like the rest of you DS is also VERY verbal ('snack, Mummy, yeah?' whilst vigorously nodding head)' is the latest, and this morning whilst we were feeding the ducks he (a) ate the duck bread and (b) said, 'E eat the ducks, yes peease?'.

I kid you not...

at eating the ducks.

We are getting 'cake, Mummy, cake?' at any mention of the opportunity to eat. We were in a naice farm shop with a play zone yesterday and I said 'Right, DS, time to go home for dinner' to which I got (loud) 'CAKE? YEAH, CAKE MUMMY'

Cue me wrestling him out audibly muttering 'No DS, you are having tuna pasta and lovely organic vegetables...' 'OH CAKE NOW YEAH'

Having a teenager can't be any worse than this, right?