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 
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
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.
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TantrumsAndBalloons · 14/09/2013 07:56
Shops are your friends. Big stores with immovable stock (e.g. furniture shops, bed shops, carpet shops) where she can tear around touching stuff and "trying out" all the sofas. Pets At Home where she can look at the fish and rats and stuff. IKEA - same, and she can choose one cheap thing from the toy dept at the end. Sounds weird, but trust me. We're taking DS to the rug shop this afternoon.
See, that is exactly what she is going to say when she gets home
She is loving the film, she hasn't moved once.
Thank you sparkling this was a very very good idea.
Shamelessly marking place!
Reading this out to DP as we drive down to DM's - keeping him entertained too.
A positive spin on this (apart from it being totally hilarious!) is that it may be the best sex ed you could give your older DCs
Ahhh , reminds me of the time that DS decorated my friend's pristine White bathroom with her best Chanel red lippy. 'twas like a slasher movie set.
In good news, at least she hasn't got a penis to get a DVD stuck on.
Halcyon days
A DVD stuck on penis.
She sounds hilarious but I'm relieved I don't have to babysit her!
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Right. We are off to soft play.
She did a little dance and a cartwheel at the front after the film.
I have told her not to climb up high unless she can actually get back down because I won't be able to rescue her.
She said "that's because you are too big and tall and your feet are too too big to come and play"
Thanks for that lovely
At least the MnM up the nose didnt necessitate a trip to casualty!
Imagine her relaying that to Mum... "And we went to the Hospital to get my nose fixed! Can I be a Doctor when I grow up?"
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