The Mummy Olympics. What's your event?

[wilbur]

TARGET PRACTICE: I can accurately apply calamine lotion to a wriggling 8 month old in less than 5 minutes. Which is much harder than archery or shooting as my target is moving.

WEIGHTLIFTING: I can carry a buggy full of baby, shopping, coats and toys up and down 43 station steps twice a day.

What would you gold-medal in?

As mum to twins I think it has to be nappy changing and bathing at speed - oh and doing things with at least one baby in arms at all times.

I take the double gold in Having The Biggest Gap Between Kids Event, a superlative 24 years between my 2 dd's

The double buggy marathon, i have walked 6 miles with two children weighing almost as much as me combined to avoid going on a bus with a double buggy.

Sounds grim Ange...
My top event is Managing Two children Alone for SixWeeks at a Time while DH is Away.
5 years' practice.

inventing great toddler games out of old bits and pieces
they are currently playing with a 7ft length of paper with a race track drawn on with crayon....and there is a huge big sheet f bubble wrap waiting for them to play with (ie stomp on)in the morning

Couch Potato Race. Preferably with family bag of Revels.

I can do the 'up-ended sharp toy on the floor' high jump and considering my small stature I am the world, soon the be MN olympic champion.

i tread on the offending object ( has to be done barefoot) then leap straight toward the ceiling, usually reaching the light fitting....

ignoring items on the washing up pile event. I can go nearly a week.

Obviously there'd have to be completely different rules for the equivalent event in the Daddy's Olympics. I can feel a new thread coming on ...

I can dress barbies amazingly quickly

I am champion at the 0 - sleep in fifteen seconds challange. I am triggered everytime I spot a 20 minute nap gap opening in front of me.

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wow merryB...would love to do that...how do u do it???

i was a nurse in my 20s doing 50-60 hours a week. we had the saying - don't stand when you can sit, don't sit when you can lie down. and all those years i could crash out in an instant.

so training pays!

For me it would have to be "Mad Trolley Dash to the Toilets".

Having been asked half a dozen times before leaving the house and another 3 or 4 upon arrival DS inevitably waits until the trolley is at least half full and we're at least halfway across the store before declaring he needs the toilet. Only out of nappies for a couple of months I don't trust him to wait very long so it's a mad dash back through the aisles to our destination. Extra points for arriving there in 30 seconds or less but deductions for tipping over stacks of biscuits/fruit/veg/tins etc and disqualification for hitting little old ladies.