Toddlers

Little Man is doing really well now, and has managed to make it past the terrible twos/threes stage and is slowly making it over the top to the hill.

Little Miss is a totally different story, I never realised how different boys and girls really are until you have one of each.

Little Miss was a very plasid and gentle baby, she would sleep really well and just goo and gaa like a good little baby, we really thought that she was going to be such a little gem. Well didn’t that change as she has grown up a bit, she is a bit of a monster child. Lucky she is cute!. (of course she has her good moments don’t they all)

I am just going to jot down a couple of my dislikes and frustrations with her at the moment, if anyone out there is struggling with the same thing, talk to me. Have you found anything that works?

Love affair with the toilet

Not such a great thing to have a love affair with, but little miss seems to have one. I thought great she is going to be so easy to toilet train but this is how it goes.

We must get the urge “Wee wee, toilet (said only how she can)”, or “Poo” pointing to the bathroom. Off we go to the toilet and we lift the lid. “No” shutting the lid, walking out of the bathroom. 5 mins later. “Poo” this time we have taken pants and nappy off, so running to the bathroom with nothing on, great what if she really does need to go. I lift her on the toilet, ” No, off” , I say “you have to stay on there longer than that”, “no off”.

So it goes on, sometimes we get the bathroom and she then sees her toothbrush and wants to brush her teeth, forgetting about the whole reason we came to the bathroom for. “brush, brush”.

Sleeping or rather not wanting to

This is both day sleeps and night time sleeps, some days she will just go off with out and issue, but a majority of the time, it ends in tears and arguements.

I really believe that routine works, and it always has with the little man. So we go through all the normal bed time routines. Glass of milk, teeth, book, wee, nappy and bed. Some nights it works a treat, but at the moment it seems not to be working very well at all.

I put them in to bed, kiss and tuck them in, say goodnight, walk out. Then is starts, she throws teddy out of the bed and calls out ” Uh-Oh, Mummy, teddy”, I just go in, no eye contact, don’t say a word, pick up teddy and walk out. Now this can go on for about an hour, every say 5 or so mins sometimes less. She calls out at the top of her voice, not a little quiet voice.

The little man used to always need to go to the toilet, or want a drink. But we got to the stage where you just stand at the door and say sleep time, and he would just go off to sleep. we have tried all of that with the little miss, but she just gets distressed because teddy or blankie are on the floor.

Must explain also that the little man shares a bedroom with little miss, so he is trying to go to sleep himself while all of this is going on. I feel so sorry for him, the other night she was driving me crazy so I put him in my bed, but then he just started calling out, so I just ended up lying on the floor in the middle of the room and they both eventually went off to sleep.

Finally