things you can do wiht a baby you cant do wiht a toddler

[FluffyMummy123]

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Cover their push chair with something so they go to sleep (like a parrot)and you can have a tea/chat/beer

Buy a pair of shoes (when supposed to be on economy drive) and smuggle them into the house without annoying 3 year old grassing you up to dh: "Are you going to wear your new shoes mummy?"
"New shoes? What new shoes? I haven't bought any shoes for AGES."
"The new shoes! The one we bought today at shop in [x}, the ones that are blue ..."

lol dandilioness!

I'd like to add that I could do nothing with my baby when he was younger, I hated it. He screamed all the bloody time but is soooo much easier now he's a toddler. (Just incase there's any mum's scared witless of what their baby will become!!!) for me it got a million times easier and tons more enjoyable!

Having said that, I do quite miss the fact that I could go and visit a friend, he'd fall asleep in the car and I could just take him in still in his car seat and he'd sometimes sleep the whole time I was there (but then wake up screaming again in the car or the instant we got home, grrrr)

I also miss being able to eat without little hand snatching stuff off my plate and whinging when he can't get something he wants.

Eat crisps and chocolate without being pestered.

Enjoy a cup of coffee and the paper in a cafe.

Try on shoes without a small child running headlong into a display and collapsing under the weight of 20 pairs of ballet pumps.

Complain about your partner's behaviour to your friend without being grassed up later that day - "Daddeeee, Mummy said you're a selfish arse. What does that mean?"

Also miss being able to go into a public toilet with my child and not have them:
(a) unlock the door when I'm on the bog;
(b) try and open the sanitary bin; and
(c) enquire in a shouty voice as to what's inside the condom and tampon machine and not be fobbed off with the answer of 'things for grown-ups'.

Meandmyjoe - I'm the opposite, I find things much much HARDER now DD a toddler. She was a very easy baby. But such hard work now.

I find activities I can do with DD are now limited to the park or soft play (ie. anywhere she can run riot safely).

Otherwise she gets bored / frustrated and whinges or has a massive strop.

When she was little we went to the cinema, cafes, shopping, day trips everywhere, art galleries, festivals etc. I long for those days again...