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Well. That went well, didnt it.......

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 14/09/2013 07:56

So I am looking after my friends 3 year old for the weekend.
I'd just like to point out, before I post the wonderful things that have happened since yesterday, that I do actually have children.
3 in fact.

I point that out because after reading this, you might be forgiven for thinking I have no clue about children what so ever Grin

So...she arrives at 5pm. Lovely, lovely girl. Lovely mum who for some reason thinks I am trustworthy, drops her off without a fuss.

Oh dear god.

All is well for a while. We eat dinner, she eats it all up. And dessert. I am cleaning the kitchen, I turn around and she is eating the dogs food out of his bowl.
And then told me the doggies dinner is very tasty Grin

We are watching tv later on and I ask my ds1 to keep an eye on her while I make a cup of tea.
I come back, she is in the dogs bed.

She wants to play hide and seek. So she hides.
Can I find her? No.
Can the DCs find her? No.

Im about to call the fucking police because clearly she has disappeared when she pops out from a bush in the garden covered head to foot in mud.

We give her a bath, got her pjs on. I go to make her a hot chocolate. I turn round and find her sitting in a cupboard. Of course, I notice she is in there the very second I shut the cupboard door. On her head.

I put her to bed on the little bed in my room.

I go to bed as well because I know if I am not sitting there looking at her, something will happen.

I wake up, an hour ago. She is asleep in the dogs bed.

She just said to me "I had so much fun auntie tantrums. I are doggies dinner, you lost me, I got very dirty and sleeped in the doggy bed. And you shut me in the cupboard"
She found it all hysterically funny.

She's going to go home and tell her mum all of that isn't she??
Is there any way at all I can put a positive spin on this??

I very doubt my friend is ever going to talk to me again, let alone trust me with her child.

OP posts:
mineofuselessinformation · 14/09/2013 22:53

So Tantrums, when you go to bed, are you taking all the animals in the house, their beds and food and all sharp objects with you?

ExitPursuedByADragon · 14/09/2013 22:53

I do. How bloody dare you tell me I don't.

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 14/09/2013 22:59

All the bloody animals sleep upstairs anyway.
The cat sleeps in the hall.
BigDog sleeps at the end of the bed
LittleDog sleeps on the bed because DH is away on my side of the bed.

I reckon I will wake up tomorrow and friends dd, 2 dogs and a cat are all in BigDogs bed together.

I have hidden the felt tip pens and the scissors though. And emptied and washed the dogs bowls.

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PrincessFlirtyPants · 14/09/2013 23:03

This is hilarious, feeling so sorry for you Tantrums

Book Monday off work and have a lie in? Think you may need it!

NorksAreMessy · 14/09/2013 23:06

Night night Tantrums
Night night Tantrumspooches
Night night JOYFUL little friendsDD

Thank you all so VERY Much

Flowers
MrsWembley · 14/09/2013 23:09

As the owner of a 4.3 and a 2.3 yr old, I can tell you you honest don't miss it, really you don't.

I absolutely agree, you think you do, coz in retrospect they were soooo cute and all the funny things they did were soooo funny when you told your friends and you lie there in the evening thinking about how wonderful they are and all the wonderful things they can do, then it starts to dawn on you that it's all about to happen again and you think, in a Bruce Willis, world's-about-to-end-again-and-I should-have-known-coz-I've-been-here-before sort of moment...

'shit.'

Talkinpeace · 14/09/2013 23:10

tears streaming down my face with laughter

teenagers do just need wifi and food

3 year olds are so much funnier

ExitPursuedByADragon · 14/09/2013 23:11

This too will pass.

Now suck it up.

januaryjojo · 14/09/2013 23:38

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HugAndRoll · 14/09/2013 23:57

I wish I was as fun as you tantrums.

butterflyflyaway · 15/09/2013 01:36

Grin She sounds like a huge ball of energy

GlaikitFizzog · 15/09/2013 06:01

Is she up yet??

MrsMangoBiscuit · 15/09/2013 06:22

Thank you so much for this thread. I no longer mind that I cannot sleep, and have instead been sat here CRYING with laughter! Grin

SquidgyMummy · 15/09/2013 06:48

Marking Place to hear how the football match goes!

JollySleepyGiant · 15/09/2013 07:05

I am so so impressed that you took her to soft play. That was brave. DS is 2.4. He has given himself a black eye at soft play on THREE separate occasions.

Good luck today.

Cerisier · 15/09/2013 07:09

I am guessing the football match will involve even more mud. Hope this morning goes well!

jetstar · 15/09/2013 07:41

Is she awake yet??

SkiSchoolRun · 15/09/2013 07:47

Brilliant thread! You sound like a great friend.

The little girl is perfectly personifying as does my DD2 my soap-box argument that it is children who (like dogs!) need daily doses of good food, fresh air and exercise not "boys" as "girls sit and colour in prett my dresses all day long".

Have a nice day today.

Happiestinwellybobs · 15/09/2013 07:55

This is hilarious, or at least that's what I thought until I realised that this will be DD in a few months. We heard the words "spirited", "whirlwind" and "character" at 12 months. Now I realise that the people who said that to me, were probably breathing a sigh of relief that their DC were the sit still kind of children Grin

At 2, we have had a face covered in black pen - apparently we were putting make up on, the dog is pulled from one place to the next, instructed to play buses with her, wear hats, sunglasses etc. (thankfully he adores her!)

As i arrived home from a long day at nursery, my neighbour asked me whether she had a nap at nursery - all while DD was tearing round and round their garden like an aeroplane. When I said yes, she looked at DD who clearly still had bundles of energy, and suggested I drop the nap :)

Definitely brave of you to take her to soft play! I avoid them like the plague, unless I go in with her, as inevitably she tries to slips off to go and see what's happening behind the reception desk or in the kitchen.

ZacharyQuack · 15/09/2013 08:00

WAKE UP DOGGIES!!!!!!

Yamyoid · 15/09/2013 08:05

Grin good morning entertainment. Thanks.

thistlelicker · 15/09/2013 08:07

Amazing!! I'm currently pregnant with dc1 and dreading toddler stage and I'm only 6 weeks gone hahahahahaha !! Hope she behaves at football!!

NotintheMiddle · 15/09/2013 08:25
Grin
HoneyDragon · 15/09/2013 08:48

Auntie Tantrums

You are going to a naice family football match aren't you? There isn't any chance she's going to learn new interesting words from the overly keen and instructive fathers when they express their unhappiness at the referees decision?

Or, have you got ear muffs?

LittleCatZ · 15/09/2013 08:51

I have a spirited 3 year old DS2. So I have been enjoying that girls are as hard work too. I now know why people have only 1 child or stop after 2!
DS1 gives me probably false hope that DS2 might eventually get a little easier...
I was 1 of 4 children and DS2 has exhausted me of the desire for any more. This thread has helped a lot with the question of whether to try for a pretty girl who sits and draws Grin