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.

oh god, i am roffling now, anyway...ask me again in two years

Thank goodness DD1 has finally grown out of this but she went through a very long phase of saying 'mummy' about 50 times at the beginning of a question;

DD: mummy?
ME: yes?
DD: um, mummy?
ME: yes DD I'm listening
DD: mummy? um mummy?
ME: what is it (starting to grit teeth)
DD: mummy, you know what mummy?
ME: what's that DD?
DD: well, mummy
ME: do you want to ask me something? (starts looking at clock to see if it is too early for a stiff gin)
DD: well mummy, I was thinking mummy
ME: Mm (absentmindedly as am pouring gin)
DD: um mummy
ME: WHAT??
DD: mummy, can I have a snack mummy?

Gawd it took her ages to spit anything out without all the 'um mummys' for months. Now she just talks nonstop stream of consciousness style whilst I lie quietly moaning in an corner with DD2 going 'mummy, um mummy'.

LOL at Roger the monster!

DD has named her baby doll June

oh i love this - this is imminenet with ds i know it is - the other morning he launched straight into why when dh said just going to dress you sunshine, why , dh goes on to expllain everything and kept getting whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy - i was rofl in other room - its so cute - it so wont be in 6 weeks time when i am nutting the wall!

LOL!!!! Tee hee hee, this thread is fab!! Have tears of laughter cos its all so unbelievably true!! And my DH and I thought our DD was hard work!!! Now I know its not just us who feel like we are close to meltdown!! Hilarious!!!

mumtocharlieandlola, you have probably long gone from this thread but I have only just got that

we have - Derek,Susan,Jackie,Rex dolllies

oh and Mingo the womble?? no i have NO idea!

lol..this thread brought back some exhaustinglovely memories for me.

Beachcomber my DD does the Mummy...Mummy...Mummy... thing too. eventually followed by "need a D(R)INK, Mummy"

roffling at this thread

we currently have from ds1 (2.5) with his cuddly FC toy:

ds1: farver kwismas want talk to me?
me (behind FC in a deep voice): yes, hello, I'm FC, what's your name?
him: DS1
me: hello DS1, have you any brothers or sisters?
him: yes, on brover, DS2.
me: have you both been good boys?
him: yes!
me: shall i bring you some presents?
him: YES!
me: how shall i bring you presents?
him: you come down chimney, here dwink & mince pie for you.
me: thank you.

ds1: farver kwismas want talk to me?
and on and on and on andonandonandonandon.....

it's really sweet but sometimes FC does want to say NO!!

Hah notevenamousie. Remember how proud we were when they first said 'mummy'? What music to our ears it was, we could have listened to it all day!

Little did we know that a short while later we would be listening to it all day and that rather than melting our hearts it would be melting our brains.

We are also in Father Christmas groundhog day. Every night when DD1 goes to bed she says that we will have to stop the stove so that when FC comes he doesn't burn his "boottomm" said with great glee and much giggling.

It was very sweet and funny the first time and I made the mistake of laughing quite a lot which has only encouraged her to tell this joke at least three times each bedtime for the last ten nights. The joke is starting to wear a little thin and I am finding it hard to laugh enthusiastically now as I don't find the word bottom quite as amusing as DD1. Still, only another 18 times to go..........

DD2 who is 2.5 tells me about a trillion times a day that 'dat is a snowman' and 'dat is father christmas' pointing to decorations on the tree. Have tried to diversify into snowflakes and the like but she is having none of it.

Me: Have you done a poo?
"No poo poo"
Me:Have you done a poo?
"No poo poo"
Me:Yes you have
"No poo poo"
Me:where's the poo?
"Here!"
Me:Hah!

(Obviously impending clean up makes this a hollow victory..)

New one for today -
DD - "dat poo"
Me - "where?"
DD - "dat poo" ->
Me - "sigh"

Ds (just turned 2) is very into confirming statements at the moment. Conversation in the car the other day while I'm trying to concentrate on driving...

Ds - go daddy work?
Me - no, we're going to Grandma's to play.
Ds - go Grandma's.
Me - yes.
Ds - Grandma's.
Me - yes.
Ds - and Grandpa's.
Me - yes, Grandma's and Grandpa's to play.
Ds - Mummy go Grandma's.
Me - yes, Mummy's coming too.
Ds - me go Grandma's.
Me - yes, we're both going.
Ds - Daddy go Grandma's.
Me - no, Daddy's at work.
Ds - Go Daddy work?

Arrgghhhhhhhh .

I started a thread earlier but it's died a death... just had to add it here, hope you don't mind.

The other day driving home from work, the DJ on the radio was telling about his taking his DS (2 or 3 I think) to the shops and seeing a heavily tattooed man. DS says to DJ, will his mummy shout at him for drawing on his face??

Havent laughed so much in ages. I'm a CM and have this all day every day from 3 under 5-s, thought it was just me.......... No wonder there are no teetotal CMs!!!!!

DD specialises in words only she understands:

in the middle of her tea yesterday for no apparent reason starts repeating cuckoo, cuckoo, CUCKOO!! Mummy fetch it cuckoo. Cuckoo Pleeeease.

DH and I totally nonplussed sounds like cuckoo but where would she have got that from?
We attempt suggestions: car key? cooking?
We attempt to clarify: Where is cuckoo? DD: outside
We attempt to distract but she carries on asking for it all night

Mercifully the next day she has forgotten. Until we get to my CM's house and she announces. Look mummy, found it cuckoo- yes CM does have a cuckoo clock after all.

Overheard on a horribly over crowded rush hour bus in London - slighlty fraught mother and her toddler.

Mum 'look darling, there's a lorry, and a bus, oh, and look - there's a taxi.'

Son: 'why isn't it an ice cream van'.

Steely london commuters decend into fit of giggles.

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ds1 is was 4 a couple of weeks ago, recently in the car we had the following exchange;

ds1: Mummy, do robots wear ballet skirts?
me: er.....um.....eh.....(desperately tries to think of something to say whilst trying to work out where that image had come from)
ds1: (tapping chin and squinting thoughtfully)Maybe just the girl ones...

I thought there was something wrong with him (ds 2yrs 5 months). Ours starts every morning with :-

"where's daddy"
"at work"
"where's daddy"
" at work"
"where's daddy"
"where do you think he is?"
"at work"
" yes that's right"
"where's daddy"...................aaaaaaaaarggh
I've tried ignoring him hoping he'll be quiet and he says
"TALK TO ME MUMMY !!".

We also get a constant
"What's that noise?" about the slightest abnormal noise (most of which go over my head but he's really sensitive to.

I was told to go on the naughty step today for being a cheeky monkey

Going back to the OP, we have exactly that conversation with our 2.5 DS1 - even down to the pronounciation of 'Whatchoo'

But, talking about funny things they say, DS1 has been stressing occasionally about making sure he has a 'Roly Mo' nappy on (and it is clearly Roly Mo) - this has confused the hell out of me and DH for a couple of weeks now as the nappies we use have Sesame Street characters on them. Anyway, all became clear yesterday when he picked up a nappy and said 'Roly Mo' - I looked at it in more detail and it had Elmo on it - he is still adamant that it is pronounced 'Roly Mo' though