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

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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.

i don't hold out much hope for my sanity Frosty if i have to wait until i can reason with DS. I often can't reason with DH

just put ds to bed. he has a night light elephant that normally hangs from the ceiling but is now on a shelf since ds pulled the wire and it doesn't work if hanging.

Ds: mummy turn on elephant
me: ok
DS: put on roof
ME: i can't hang it from the ceiling it won't work
DS: why?
Me: because the wire was pulled
DS: why?
Me: because you pulled it
DS: why?
Me: i don't know why.
DS: why?
Me: i don't know. why did you pull it?
DS: why?
ME: it was an accidet i'm sure
DS: Why?
ME; i don't know
DS; put it on the roof
Me: I can't it won't work
DS: why?

Me: Arrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh

Absosoddinglutely

Does my head in on a grand scale

Done exceptionally loudly, too

AM pmsl in recognition at this thread.

I needed this thread!

Mine is

"Mama whats that?"
"its your hand"
"whats that?
whats that
it never ends!!! And he ALWAYS knows what it is!

I get:

Mummy, me have raisins?
Yes, let me just finish (x, y, z)
Mummy, me have raisins?
Yep, I'm just finishing
Me have raisins, Mummy?
HANG ON A MINUTE
Me have raisins now, Mummy?
YES!
Mummy, me have raisins?

Over and over and over and over and over and over........

my 20 month old is similar. Everything to him is 'all gone''

As we drive down the road
ds: there car
me:yes
ds;car all gone
me yes;
ds;there car
me;yes
ds car all gone. Where kai (ds2) kai all gone (he's at school)
etc.etc for the entire journey

If he can't see me in the house all I hear is "where mummy, mummy all gone"

It's somewhat tedious

These are fantastic

So nice to know I'm not alone!

This is the funniest threat I have read in ages.

And the bad news is: it continues even when the child turns three .....

I am actually weeping with laughter.

DS's a bit simpler (22 months)

DS: Mummy?
Me: Yes darling
DS: Mummy?
Yes?
DS: (now laughing manically because he has my undivided attention) Mummy?
Me: What is it darling?
DS: Mummy! George! Mummy?

Me: Yes darling?

ad nauseum

This is what helped me....

With the "what you doing?" answer something utterly ridiculous, e.g.

dd: what you doing mummy?
me: (cleaning windows) I'm baking a cake.
dd: (looks puzzled then goes away)

With "why" I find it shuts them up if you give them an over-the-top scientific explanation (vaguely remembers argument with 2 year old dd years ago about why there could not possibly be lambs in the field right now even though she insisted she could see them - gave her a long explanation of mating and birthing patterns of sheep which left her speechless...)

until the next question....

Aww, you guys are so lucky! I just wish Tom would actually talk. He's 2.8 and has said the odd word or two, but thats it. He does hum the syllables to words and I know he's asking 'what's this?'. Then I go 'xmas tree'. The he hums 'xmas tree' and points to the tree again and hums 'whats this?' again, lol. I would love him to actually speak though!

Ah - we have several of these...
we have the whatchoo doing one..
also the car version - where we going??

we have this one
dd - mummy whats your name?
me - mummy
dd - nooo - its not mummy
me - oh
dd - mummy whats your name?
me - goes through endless made up names
dd - replies no to all of them
me(thru gritted teeth) - so what is my name?
dd - Mummy!!

oh and my favourite - having eaten vast quantities of food - 'I'm huunngreee'

I am really dreading the why phase

Bexie, that's pretty much the conversational skill of the average 2 year old, fret not.

But then you get,
"mummy ?"
"Yes"
"Am I getting on your bloody nerves?"

That is what I got today

ds: What's that?
me: It's an apple.
ds: Why is it an apple?
me: Erm ...
ds (pre-empting me) : Is that just the way it is?
me: Er ... yes, that's right.
ds: Why is that just the way it is?

Roffling at this.

My version with DD1 is
What do I like mummy?
I don't know, what would you like?
Something to eat?
No, you've just had lunch.
What do I like mummy?
No, you've just eaten
I have soemthing to eat now?
No, maybe later
DD2 is hungry. we both have something to eat?
No, would you like some water?
OKay
What would I like?

Even at snack time I get
What do I like mummy?
I don't know, what would you like?
I want something to eat.
How about a satsuma
No, I want something to eat.
A banana?
NO, I want something to eat.
Either a satsuma or a banana
NO, I want something to eat.
That is something to eat
NO, I want something to EAT
That is food, there isn't anything else
NO, I want something TO EAT.
Okay, nothing then

I have a banana

What do I like mummy?

Other people's versions of this are hiliarious, but the RL experience is melting my head. Kathy the story telling one is just fab. DD does tell stories herself and specialises in ghost ones, but each time she stops to ask 'are you scared?' she forgets where she is and has to start again.

An excerpt from our most painful 'watchoo' conversation goes as follows.

DD: Are we going to Skibbereen?
Me: Yes, to the shops and the playground.
DD: Oooh good, I love Skibbereen.
PAUSE
Me (stupidly): are you ok in the back?
DD: Yes, but where are we going?
Me: Skibbereen.
PAUSE
DD: Where are we going?
Me: Skibbereen.
PAUSE
DD: Where are we going?
Me: Skibbereen.

[Some desperate attempts to change topic later.]

DD: Where are we going?
Me: Skibbereen.
DD: This isn't the way to Skibbereen.
Me: Yes it is. It's just down here.
DD: NO IT ISN'T. I want to go to Skibbereen.

[Car approaches small Irish market town]

DD: What is this place mummy?
Me: It's Skibbereen.
DD: No it isn't. It isn't Skibbereen. I want to go to Skibbereen.
[much wailing]

It's like being trapped in a Beckett play.
When she switches off repeat she is in her own words 'absolutely lovely' though, so I'd choose the talking over the deciphering stage Cyteen .

Oh all of these are soooo true!

At the minute we are in the hell of "something else"....

DD "wants something else to eat mummy"

me "OK you can have a pear or a banana"

DD "no want something ellllse"

me "what do you want"

DD "something elllllse"

me "Ok we have got raisins or cereal or a pear or a banana which would you like?

DD "something out that cupboard"

me Ok have a lolly some fruit flakes (I have drastically shortened the means by which we get to here!)

DD either - has one lick fruit flake then wants "something elllse"
or - I want a pear mummy!

good job we love them eh?

Oh this thread is soooo lovely.

Me: There's a lorry
DS: Where
Me: There
DS: Where
Me: Oh too late, its gone
DS: (crying) me want to see lorry
Me: (wishing I had never mentioned it) - no, its gone
DS: wahhhhhh, me see lorry.

Ever wish you just never said anything.

Wug, do you do that thing where after about 10 minutes you run out of healthy options and start randomly naming food?
Offering her slug sandwiches or spider soup tends to work sporadically as she gets fits of giggles

Chirpy, mine get offered dog snot.......

Does anyone else get;

Me; Go to Sleep DD2

DD2;

Me; No, sleep time

DD2;

And for the "where are you Mummy?" I just get followed, the minute I am out the room she's right behind me!

Bless them!

Oh, the hell of the "whatchoo doin' mummy?" conversation. We have a lot of that in this house.

Here it is:

-mummy are you alright?
-Yes darling ,put your coat on.
-mummy are you alright?
-yes bebe, mummy is alright thank you
Mummy are you alright?

The strange thing is it's always when we get ready to go to school with her brothers and sister in the morning and when we get ready to pick them up in the afternoon. I do not know why she is associating that with me possibly not being alright.

lol at this thread.

This is what we have (it could be any subject but am using charlie and loa):

Her: which one do you like mummy?
ME: urm, I like charlie
Her: I like Charlie though. which one do you like?
Me: I like Lola.
Her: Ella likes lola though. Which one do you like?
Me: Urmm, I like Lota.
Her: Grandma likes Lota though. Which one do you like.
Me: I don't know any of the others.
Her: You like Arnold Mummy
Me: Oh, OK then.
Her: which one does Daddy like?