November 2014 - the one where they test boundaries.

[MrsAukerman]

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Oh don't talk to me about baths. Sore subject.

A few months ago now DS suddenly decided he hated baths. When the week previous he loved them and played for hours.

We have tried constantly since then to get him back in. Last week we made a big deal about him "helping" bath DD and once he saw her in there he gingerly got in. Yay! Except then he started playing with Squidgy foam soap and I made the schoolboy error of squirting too much out and he shrieked " AAAAAHHHH! WRIGGLY WORM!!" and burst into hysterical tears.

So thats the end of baths. Again! FFS. I wouldn't mind but this is a child who digs up wriggly worms in the garden!

I live in fear of the nursery guessing somehow that he's only getting squaddie washes at the sink and privately castigating us as shit parents. He can't possibly be as clean as kids who have proper soaks.

Well we have chicken pox sent home from nursery yesterday apart from he doesn't realise he is suppose to be unwell and is more cheerful than normal, he had a total of 7 spots this morning now has 20 he is in a warm bath despite the hot weather to encourage others out I am not having random ones appearing over a week then taking forever to scab over. On a positive its unexpected time off work and it's nice weather. I suspect as more spots come out he may not feel so well. Ds1 was 3 when he had it and other than the second 24hrs of it where he had high temps he was fine.

I missed ds1 sports day today after booking the afternoon off luckily DH managed to book last min annual leave for the afternoon.

Anna nursery prob won't notice toddlers are generally grubby little buggers amazingly clean ones would prob be more of a concern 😀

Nice to have you back happy! I don't know how you're coping without a bathroom, I have realised I am not cut out for doing a fixer upper, I need everything clean and working princess

DD loves her bath, I'd rather not give her one every day but she's always filthy. We go to our allotment after early tea, it's 3 mins from the house, she is on one of those trikes with a handle which handily carries things I need in the back basket. After half an hour there she is top to toe in sand and dirt. We also swim at least once a week, the pool at my gym is warm so it's kind of a free activity and we can go at 7am on the weekends when there's nothing else to entertain her.

I'm loving hearing about the imagination on all the dc's!! Especially the magic!!

It's all about singing nursery rhymes to get himself to sleep here along with random things from YouTube kids videos and peppa pig. Really cute. Still loving baths but they can be a flashpoint for tantrums due to him being tired I'm guessing. Still in nappies day and night but every day a wee on the toilet before bath. Have a few clear days coming up so will try and potty train then.

We've dropped all naps here. Hasn't had one in about 2 weeks and we've told nursery not to bother unless he looks like he needs it. It's hard going after 6pm and hes in bed by 6.45 these days. He chatters happily away to himself for about half an hour and is out like a light by 7.20.

He was up at 6.30 this morning though so without the nap he's going to be hard going, oh well.

He's also lost interest in TV lately - a disaster! - so we have to spend 2 hours playing with him each morning and we're knackered before we even shower!

Is everyone else still napping? I do wonder if that's why she's hard to get down now. Took nearly 2 hours last night but came down and DP was doing all the ironing I had waiting for me - that's real love!

That's why we ended up telling the nursery not to bother, cos we had a night where we out him down at 7pm and he didn't go to sleep till 8.30.

But it's been coming for a few weeks. Nursery often reporting either no nap or a small 15 min nap. And he would be fine those days but when they reported a good nap we'd have bad bedtimes. And he was becoming impossible to even put him in the cot for naps at the weekends and we were resorting to driving him around in the car like a baby to get him to nap.

It's still a bit bumpy and we've had the odd tired tantrum and I have to make sure I don't have him in the car around 5pm or he'll doze off (rookie mistake) but he's coping ok in general.

Lady yes, still napping, thank God! But that is probably because she sleeps so little at night. She is rarely asleep before 9pm and has to be up at 7am on school days whether she likes it or not to be ready for getting DD1 to school.

eastmids hope the chicken pox is not too bad.

It was 25 degrees here yesterday, but we couldn't play outside because DD decided she hates ladybirds, snails and spiders now though she used to love watching all insects. She cried every time she saw one, and then had a screaming tantrum because there was a bit of plant on her shoe. We went back in the house after that, but at least I didn't have to worry about her getting burnt.

I missed a night's sleep this week when I worked a night shift then went to DD1's class assembly instead of going home to bed. Then DH's friend rang at 4.20am yesterday from America to say that his home security system informed him that his house, which is near us, was being broken into and could DH go round and investigate. That was us awake for the day.

Ohhh happy sounds like you need an early night must be knackered.

Chicken pox is full on covered now, last night awake 1-4.30 then up at 5.30 just went for a walk to a deserted little park he had fallen asleep by time we got there so we are home now and he is still asleep I can't nap in this'd heat and feel shit when i wake up last thing I need if he is wingey.

Been using pirition and calpol and resorted to some hydrocortisone this morning on his skin as camomile lotion is runny shit stuff wish had told DH to get virasoothe Tue night but as ds2 wasn't that bad I thought we wouldn't need the expensive stuff.

Got to get ds1 from school today so expecting many dirty looks but I picked up Mon and he would have been more infectious then than 4days in

sympathies on the chicken pox east. I have a full bottle of virasoothe here that I don't need, typical! Got it last summer when we thought DD2 had chicken pox - turned out it was HFM for the second time and of no use at all for that. I was getting up at crazy o' clock then too and putting DD in the buggy and going for a long walk. Was kind of nice in a zombiefied kind of way.

happy oh god, hope you're hanging in there with all this house stuff.

anna I'm constantly having similar worries about nursery's opinion of us, but I figure they're either judging no-one as everyone falls down with something, or judging everyone!

We're supposed to be going away this weekend for a wedding and my parents minding the dc. DD2's bloody cough is back with a vengeance, typical. She's off nursery today, I am trying my best to get a bit of work done having just put her down for an early nap. She watched a bit of Peppa for a while but TV really doesn't work on her at all yet. Very different to her sister who would happily watch it all day if allowed.

Argh....All I can hear is cough cough cough. Anyone else's have inhalers yet?

Still napping here in general (about an hour) but bedtime is creeping a bit later to 7.30/8. Longer evenings and that. DD1 had dropped hers by now but we're going on holidays at the end of June and I really need dd2 to keep up her nap for that, otherwise she'd be wrecked in the heat.

We have had inhalers on & off for past two winters and one point told highly likely asthma but I am not so sure.

Ds1 has gone for first sleepover ever its a school one all of yr2 stay overnight

95% of days still having a nap, mainly skipping the nap during the weekend. We do go out in a car or pram out to help her fall asleep then, because otherwise she is up in silly o'clock in the morning or waking up all fresh and active just when we are about to go to bed. On a normal day she goes to sleep around 9pm, now that it is summer and light for longer we have pushed bath time to 8.30, she is asleep by 9.30.

Recently DD has become very aware about the clothes. She gets very excited about new clothes now that I keep pulling summer clothing out of the wardrobe every day. The nursery said that she and another girl are both mad about dressing up in the princess dresses etc. It must be to punish me because I have always hated the idea of her being all into pink and overly girly stuff...

Nap every day without fail here. MIL basically said he needs to be potty trained before she has him for a week in August!!!!!

No early night for me this week. DH has been ill which hasn't helped (, DDs are waking up earlier now it is the school holidays and we don't have to get up early, I did another night shift on Saturday.
Today I have booked to take DDs (and SIL and nephew) to an outdoor animatronic dinosaur 'experience'. Torrential rain is forecast and I hadn't considered bank holiday bus services. But DDs have wellies and rainsuits, and DD1's rainsuit kept her dry in pouring rain that turned into hail last weekend (DD2 refused to put her's on), so they will be OK.
strawberry I also hate pink and girly stuff and didn't get DD1 any, but she has had a definite preference for pink and dresses since she was old enough to choose, and DD2 mostly likes everything her big sister has so there is no hope for her.
mrsA does he seem ready to start potty training at all. Surely, if not, you could try, but it would be more hassle for her as there would be likely to still be some accidents and she would have to carry a potty round if she took him out. Nappies might actually be easier if you don't think he will be 100% dry by then.

How did you get on happy?

We went to the coast and had to come back after one night, babydolly spectacularly lost her shit in our tiny hotel room and would only fall asleep in the double bed if me and dp were in the tiny toilet so we hid till she fell asleep but if she woke (at least hourly) she would order me back in there. Exhausting. Our fault for keeping her up too late. Redeemed slightly today by a lovely park/lunch/play day.

Still resisting bed. She's tired but just playing up all time time 🙁

Blimey ladydolly, you have been sent to the toilet by DD?! :) Well, it's funny when you don't have to deal with it... :(

If that helps DD has been having fever whole of the BH weekend and for whatever reason she just blacklisted me completely. To the point where she would go to DH to moan about mummy hurting her if I stroke or kiss her and would demand him to kiss whatever part of the body I had touched. She is now full of cold, blocked nose and cough. I thought I would sleep with her last night because she was up every hour anyway and at least I didn't have to go to her room every time. She was asleep across the bed most of the night and was trying to kick me out of the bed constantly. There are nights she is touching up with foot/hand to see that she is not alone, but last night... it was a very different story. This morning she had a massive meltdown for I have no idea what. You don't say it in public, but I was actually really, I mean REALLY relieved to walk out of the nursery after the drop off. I have finished all the work stuff, so could go and pick her up, but after last 3 days, I just sit around mumsnetting until I can't postpone any longer the pickup...
I might go to bed before 9pm as DH is on duty to look after her tonight.

Ladydolly sorry to laugh but its on!y funny because can imagine us doing same in fact airport hotel before we went away family room kingsize bed plus bunk beds well DH ended up in lower bunk he is 6ft 4"!!! And ds2 in with me.

lady we enjoyed the dinosaurs. Well, the 6 year olds enjoyed them most. DD2 said they were too noisy. They were life-sized and loud. The weather was ok for the first couple of hours and we managed a quick lunch before it poured and poured. We were all soaked to the skin despite rain suits and wellies. DD2's coat was still wet this morning. I tried tumble drying it, but had to dig out last year's which luckily still fit.

strawberry I was glad today was a nursery day, as DDs had spent a hour arguing over Lego before it was time for DD2 to leave. I was fed up of the screaming, shouting, crying and moans of "muuuum, I was playing with that... she snatched... she broke my tower etc etc" by 8am and was glad I didn't have to put up with it all day.

ladydolly and eastmids that is why we don't go anywhere we would have to stay in a hotel, because we would end up in the same kind of situation. My DH is a similar height, and I can absolutely imagine him ending up in a child sized bed while I try and keep DD2 quiet and no one gets any sleep.

It is a funny story now but I was close to tears by the morning!! We normally get an airbnb so she can have a seperate room but left to too late this time so took a chance.... wrong decision! Although she's slept in every morning since then so silver lining and all that.

It is a funny story now but I was close to tears by the morning!! We normally get an airbnb so she can have a seperate room but left to too late this time so took a chance.... wrong decision! Although she's slept in every morning since then so silver lining and all that.

We've never stayed in a hotel with DS and that's why - I'm too scared!

This is probably a wierd one to all of you, but this month DS has occasionally kissed me. And he very laboriously kissed DD this morning.

He's never ever been a kisser so I'm a bit emotional about it. I honestly had resigned myself to always being the kisser, never the kissee.

He doesn't really know how to do it so it's mainly hovering his lips at yours only occasionally landing.

He still won't do it if you ask but will just do it randomly, almost out of curiosity. From what little we can glean ftom him this is down to some little girl called Lily in crèche who kisses him. I've never seen a Lily there so she's either one of the babies or one of the 3 yr olds. I think I'm going to have to ask if she really exists!

Oh Annarose I can definitely relate to the kissing bit. DD for quite some time would turn her cheek whenever we asked for a kiss. She would never kiss us herself, until few weeks ago something suddenly clicked and we are given kisses and proper hugs with little arms around the neck.

After the nightmare BH weekend DD has been really lovely. Really, really lovely, no tantrums, all very happy and giggly, just can't fault her for anything. We went to NW London for the first time since she just turned one and she was fascinated by the crowds, police and ambulance sirens, buildings, busy traffic, everything. Went to Primrose hill and when suddenly appeared BT Tower she was "Oh, what's that???". On a way back she was protesting quite a lot in the car about not wanting to go back home.

I have previously posted about how DD2 is a huge daddy's girl (as is DD1) and I can't do anything with or for her while he is around. The last couple of days it has stepped up so now I can't even speak to her. We were all sitting in the car and DD2 said something. When I replied she shouted "no, I talking to daddy!" I laughed because it was so ridiculous, but, after it happened a few times, I was not impressed.

DD was not very affectionate at all for the longest time, now she loves to give kisses and cuddles, this morning she asked if she could cuddle the little china whistle her GM gave her. Perhaps this is the turning point anna?? How lovely.

happy We have the opposite in our house for about the last year or so, DP thinks it's verging on 'unhealthy' now how much I am the favourite but I think it's normal and nothing to worry about. It is odd how they go through these phases isn't it?