Anyone else having this conversation with your 2-year-old over and over and over again? Tell me I'm not alone.

[EmpressTequilaLaMingMingGnarr]

Her: Mummy, whatchoo doing?
Me: Wiping the table.
Her: Whatchoo doing Mummy?
Me: I'm wiping the table.
Her: Whatchoo doing?
Me: I'm wiping the table.
Her: Mummy?
Me: Yes?
Her: Whatchoo doing?
Me: I'm wiping the table.
Her: Whatchoo doing Mummy?
Me: Wiping the table.

Repeat X infinity or until you melt through sheer lack of will to live.

X 100000 times a day.

Whatchoo doing Mummy?

Mine follows up with:

Are you wiping the table Mummy?
Yes.
Are you?
Yes I am.
Watchoo doing Mummy?

Oh yes
oh yes
oh yes

Mine's got the "why?" bug at the moment - repeated ad nauseum

not quite that conversation... ours seem to go:

her: hello!
me: hello!
her: mummy! hello!
me: hello, dd2
her: hellooo! hello mummy!
me: hello dd2, how are you (desperately tryign to move on conversation)
her: mummy! mummy, hello! HELLO!
me: hello, dd2

and on, and on, and on it goes.

i wouldn't mind, but she does actually have a really good vocab for a 22 month old, so why she limits herself to 2 words is beyond me!

Replies that sometimes work:

"you tell me?"
"what do you think?"
"cleaning the elephant"
"just waiting to tickle you"
"ooh, what is Mummy doing?"

Oh yes Justa. I forgot that bit.

We have lots of ...

"Mummy, what's that?" (Pointing to something everyday, like a door)
"It's a door"
"Why?"
"Well, because that's what it is"
"What for?"
"For going in and out of the room though"
"Why?"
"Because we can't walk through the wall!"
"Mummy, what's that?" (Pointing to something everyday, like a door) ...

"whazzat?" (points in general direction of crowded landscape)
"I don't know, DS, what is it?"
"THAT!"
"there are lots of things, DS, what colour is it?"
"THAT, MUMMY, THAT!"
"A donkey, DS" (lying through teeth now to end torment)
"NO Mummy, it's a CAR!"

Aaaargh.

We get

Mummy, are you going up the stairs?
Yes darling, I am going up the stairs.
Mummy, are you going up the stairs?
Yes darling.
Mummy, mummy, where are you?
I am going up the stairs darling.
Mummy, are you going up the stairs?
Yes darling.
Mummy, mummy, where are you gone?
I have gone up the stairs.
Mummy, mummy, where are you gone?
I am here darling, up the atairs.
Where are you?
I am in the bathroom.
Where are you?
I am having a poo

Silence for 10 seconds whilst I rush to finish in the bathroom.

Mummy, are you coming down the stairs?
Yes darling, I am coming down the stairs.
Etc
Etc
Etc

Kind of wearing at times, isn't it?

"mummy?"
"yes, DD"
"Your boobies are nice"
"Thanks"
"Mummy"
"Daddy boobies are not nice"
"Oh dear"
"Look, that lady has big boobies" 'bet they taste nice'

Every time we go to Sainsburys we have this conversation

And my personal favourite:

'do you need a new nappy dd?'
'NO!'
'Are you sure?'
'YES!'
'Let's just check'
'NO!'
'Look you have a poo in your pants'
'Oh!'
'So did you do a poo'?
'No, DS did it'

why mummy?
why we going swimming?
because i'd thought you'd enjoy it
why?
would you enjoy it?
yes.

why?
why what darling?
why go swimming?
repeat the whole way to teh swimming pool

why, why, why, why, why .......?????????????

it'd enough to drive me insane.

i swore i'd never say "because" but find myself saying it quite a lot now.

LOl at the boobies in sainsbury's whomoved

'mummy'
'yes?'
'what dat?'
thats xx(whatever shes pointing at)
'oh......'
'whats dat?...' (usually pointing at the same thing again

I've just discovered other people live in the same hell as me!

Mine is just contrary as hell.
Our version of OP's conversation would be
Her: Mummy, whatchoo doing?
Me: Wiping the table.
Her: No you're not!

Tigerschick and Captain Karvol, I have exactly the same conversation with my DS (3).

In the car, me driving, DS in the back

"Mummy, what's that?"
"Um, I don't know. Where?"
"What's that? What is it?"
"I don't know. I can't see what you are talking about. Can you point to it?"
"What IS IT?"
"DS, I can't see. Can you use another word to tell me?"
"That, mummy, THAT. Look, I told you once..."

And, at home.

"What's that? "
"It's a mug DS"
"Why?"

wtf

Glad I'm laughing now because it can drive me insane.

This is a popular brainfry with my dd:

DD. Mummy, tell me a story
me: Ok dd. Once upon a time there was a witch-
DD: No, a story about a fairy
me. There was a fairy called Loopy-
DD. Not a fairy called Loopy, a fairy called Elizabeth.
me. And one day she went for a walk in the woods
DD. No mummy, a walk by the sea
me. I think you ought to tell this story dd
dd. No I can't mummy, because I don't know what happens next!

Oh God, another year and this'll be me. I spent a hellish journey on the little train round Center Parcs with my niece once.

A - Why are we sitting here?
Me - We're waiting for the train
A - Why?
Me - So we can go back to the villa
A - Why are we going back to the villa?
Me - So we can have a cup of tea
A - Why are we having a cup of tea?
Me- Because we're tired.
A - Why are we tired?
Me - (grits teeth) Because we've had a busy day
A - (silence for 5 seconds). Why are we sitting here?
Me - (picks up large plank of wood and beats niece over the head with it repeatedly) (sighs) We're waiting for the train.

It's like talking to a parrot

having spent the day trying to decode my 3 month old's uncharacteristic whinging (what is it DS? nappy? hungry? tired? play? cuddles? too warm? too cold? what? WHAT? WHAT IS IT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD???), i'm not sure if i'm looking forward to the 'why?' years or not

Or in a similar vein atm
me:please don't take anymore of the decorations off the tree.
DD3: why [as she removes one]
me: because the tree looks nice with the decorations on it.
DD3:tree looks nice? [removes another]
me: yes tree looks nice with the decorations ON
DD3: [removes a bauble] why? [and another]
me: [putting them back] Because
DD3: Tree looks nice [as she takes off another bauble}

This conversation repeated, at a rising pitch, at regular intervals throughout the whole day.