How much of a doting mum are you??????

[CraftyCat]

What is the most ridiculously overly-devoted thing you have ever done for your little one?

Today I spent half an hour with a hairdryer blow-drying DD?s toy cat that she wants every time she goes to sleep (it had been put down the toilet for the second time this week ? I did buy a toilet lock this week but DD removed it within seconds ? why is all safety gear complete rubbish????).

Please tell me I am not alone in doing things like this?

If anyone has a spare cat ? Mothercare product, about 6 years old, blue body, yellow head, beanbag sort of thing ? I?ll swap it for money, chocs etc etc!!

Letting my 2 yr old dd paint all over my pregnant tummy to 'make the baby happy'
Seems to have worked, he's a happy kid!

Letting my two year old paint my face like a clown (and then answering the door!)

My oldest son has just announced that he'd like to go to the South Bank today, since we haven't been there in ages (ie months).

This follows Saturday watching a morris dancing festival in Rochester and Sunday visiting the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. Sigh! over the years, have I been too enthusiastic about taking him places?

Ho ho, I think Tigermoth wins so far. Morris dancing? Yikes.
Our son scrambles into our bed at night and stealthily nudges me off my pillow and down the bed. I quite often wake to find myself lying, varlet-style, at the foot of the bed while the two men in my life are snoring away in comfort. I have not yet given ds a piece of my mind about this.
At least I don't serve them dinner and then stand behind their chairs while they eat it.

CraftyCat, I've done the same thing with my son's koala bear after he'd thrown up all over her.

Making 4 different costumes in one week for the nursery panto and party - other mothers bought, I sewed, more fool me (ds and dd did look very cute in them, though...).

I did pause for reflection when I found myself shampooing the mane and tail of a ride-on horse once.

Cutting my dd's apple into quarters, removing the core and then reassembling it and wrapping it in plastic cling wrap for her lunchbox! (At least she eats it - when I sent a whole apple it would always come home again!)

YES Mollipops - I do exactly the same for my boys! If I don't they eat about two bites and throw the rest away.

drinking a big swig of peach flavoured drinking yogurt just to suck out the lump of half-chewed cheese Snack-a-jack that had fallen in (dd was really looking forward to the yogurt drink then she managed to spit her crisp in and couldn't get it out)

Enid -ewwwww yuk!!! You win!

Enid, I hope you're not going to pull any stunts like that on the 18th. Blech!

Spent the early part of last week with DD very poorly sitting on my lap and vomiting periodically and then latter part getting covered in diahorrea !! Never once got frustrated.

BTW I think the most doting mums are in Italy where apparently they suck the babies snot out when they have colds !!!

Tillysmummy, I get quite a lot of pleasure out of extracting crusty bogeys from dd's nose...but sucking them out is just TOO far!!

Yes me too with the picking thing but can you imagine sucking all the snot - that is real doting - yuk !! But apparently it's true....

Tillysmummy - I do that - what's a bit of snot between family! I seem to have a good immume system - the colds never get passed on to me

I did that when dd was really wee and had a cold but her nostrils were too tiny to put an aspirator in! I got the idea from Angelas Ashes incidentally.

Yes, don't come to me on the 18th if you need a crisp sucked out of a drink.

Actually, thats the 13th at the Bath meet as I can't make the London one. But still don't ask me. About the sucking thing.

Nor me!

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