The toddler life. Potty training, not sleeping, tantrums. Come join this crap with me!

[lucymegan]

If you have a feral toddler and at the end of your tether come join me in this shit show of a stage!

So I have a dd 2.5 she's currently in the garden with a bucket and spade (buckets filled with water and she's using the spade like a soup spoon and drinking it) I've told no 10,000, removed her away, bribed her with an ice pole and she just keeps going back to it. I've given up. She's had her tetanus.
She's also started waking in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and refuses to go back to sleep. So from 2:30-5:30 she's wide away and wanting a conversation. What the hell is going on. Where's my good girl that slept from 6:30pm-7am 😫
She's also started exploring her Pooey nappies and smeared it all over herself! Wtf!
I thought "ok,great she's ready to potty train. So go out and buy her a potty, toilet seat, novelty knickers and fancy pull ups. Within 10 minutes she's shit herself and peed on the floor 😫
Carry on taking her to the toilet..nothing then 5 minutes later shits on the floor..I give up.

Somebody come along please and advise me please. I've had 4 other children and this one is broken I'm sure of it 🤦🏻‍♀️

@HelloJackie this was dd Saturday. Vomit and diarrhoea 🤢 was horrendous. So glad that was only a 24 hr bug. She's back at pre school this morning 🙌🏼 I'm suppose to be catching up on housework while she's not here but instead on my third cup of tea 🙈

So last night she went to bed later (9:30, she napped on the way home with grandparents) and woke at 7 in her own bed. Yippee

Why is my child waking up at 2am. Anyone know where I can trade him?

The only downside to your toddler getting over an illness is they go straight back into crazy mode. Today has been spent trying to stop DS from attacking the cats and throwing cars out of the window, and climbing out of the window, and throwing cars at the tv, and pulling the curtains off the poles, and wrapping the cats up in the rug.

It's midday and I am thinking back to the good times when this was nap time and I would have a cuppa in peace.

Popping in too if that is okay? DS is 2 next month and he is getting pretty intense, loveable and fun but intense and crazy too.

He still isnt talking so his frustration at not being able to communicate well is certainly making his tantrums worse I feel? Or maybe I am just creating excuses?

At least he is potty trained I suppose but waiting for that to go backwards as it appears that happens to every toddler?

We're all really in the thick of it here aren't we 🙈
Hey ho, at least we're not alone! Glad I haven't had the d&v yet, hopefully it skips us...
DD slept through 7-6:30 at her dads last night, see if she does the same for me tonight!

@ISeeDeadDandelions yep 😂 I keep wishing the terrible two stage to piss off and for her to be 3. But going by her sister 3 isn't any better either 🤦🏻‍♀️ things have calmed down a bit at 5 though 😬(for now)

I picked dd up from pre school and thought "oh we will go to the bank and run a couple of errands" big mistake HUGE..she's fallen asleep in the car 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️😬🙈 why why why did I not bring her straight home...why did I think a 20 mile round car journey was going to be ok?!?!?

You fool!!! You should know better than that 😁

We've had the d&v the last week and a half in our house. DS1 got first, of course (thanks, nursery). I felt pretty bad because I only had DS2 2 weeks before so stayed well out of his way for fear of catching it and spreading to the newborn. MIL was staying with us at the time so helped DH with him. Of course, having been up through the night with DS1, DH was afforded the luxury of a very long lie that next morning by MIL who watched DS1. No mention of the fact that I've been up through the night with the bugger every night for the past 3 years and I don't ever get the luxury...

I realise this is the shit stuff your toddler does thread, not the shit stuff your DP does thread so apologies for going off tangent. Couldn't help myself! Though it is related to the fact that ONLY mum can do bedtime or wake ups in this house. It's actually more of a hassle for me in the end if DH even tries.

For the first time in forever, we got past 5.30 - 6.15 this morning! Hurrah! I feel human again.

When I checked on him last night though he’d done a poo and I had to try and change it as he slept. Not easy! Luckily he slept through it. Who knows how!

@mnahmnah ahh the nappy changing whilst their asleep is intense 😬

Dd has managed to sleep in her own bed almost a whole week now 🙌🏼 please let that phase be ended.

DS has started to come down with a cold. He has managed to sleep most of last night, but he's been coughing so much in his sleep he keeps waking us up. Early night tonight in case he's up in the night.