I love my kids but OMG, they have the ability to drive me completely fecking insane at times!
Here are just some of the things they do frequently that drive me nuts!
Can you relate?
- Turning off the washing machine mid cycle. Usually you don’t realise until you think it is time to hang it out, only to find a great sopping mess and the need to do it all over again. Most of the time it is on a day when it is forecast to rain and you really needed to get it out promptly in order for it to have any chance to dry.
- Turning on the dishwasher (‘Uffy help mummy!’) just when it has finished the dry cycle and the water pours in before you get a chance to stop it.
- Doing poos right when you sit down with a hot cup of coffee (the first you have had all day usually). Or just when I have sat down for the night and a little head pokes around the side of the lounge door ‘Um, mummy, I have a teeny weeny big problem. I have done a big poo in my nappy, the biggest poo you have ever seen! And the colour is BROWN’. Yes, colour still fascinates my 4 year old. Sigh. And yes, he still refuses to do poos on the toilet even though he has been toilet trained on the wee front for over a year *pulling hair out*.
- Insist on flushing the toilet while I am sitting on it. I really should start locking the door! The youngest then applauds me for going ‘waters’ and says ‘Good girl mummy!’.
- Demand you read them a story and then turn the pages while you are attempting to read it before snatching it out of your hands and proclaiming ‘All done!’ and shoving the next one at you only to repeat the process.
- Not listen! This was a conversation that took place at our dinner table recently that sums this point up nicely:
Cohen: Where’s daddy?
Me: At work
Finn: Is this chicken?
Me: No
Finn: Mmm, yummy chicken!
Cohen: Where’s daddy?
Me: At work
Finn: Yummy chicken!
Cohen: Where’s daddy?
Finn: Is this chicken?
Cohen: Is daddy in the toilet?
Me: No, he’s at work
Finn: Where’s daddy?
Cohen: It’s chicken Uffy.
Me: Daddy’s at work and it’s lasagne.
Finn: Nummy mummy, chicken!
Cohen: Where’s daddy?
Half the time it’s like having dinner with two Alzheimer patients.
- Whip open the curtains at 5.30am while announcing loudly ‘Morning mummy! It’s morning time!’ and jumping on my head. 5.30am on a Saturday is NOT morning in my opinion but I have two little boys who beg to differ.
- Moving stuff. Ever notice how things just disappear into thin air only to be found again in the weirdest place a week later? The tongs in the bottom of their bed, the cordless phone flat at the bottom of the nappy storage bag (hence we no longer have a cordless phone!), the stray bottle outside on the trampoline … NEVER LEAVE YOUR KEYS UNATTENDED!
What are some things your kids do that drive you bonkers?
My kids turn off the washing machine mid cycle too! Doesn’t help that our ‘laundry’ is a cupboard that they can open easily. Wish we had a normal laundry with a door I can close!
Emma @ Life, kids and a glass of red recently posted…It’s time for wine…
Mine would just open the door! Little monkeys! I’ve decided kids just find anything with buttons irressistable, they don’t MEAN to press it but they just HAVE to press it.
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Totally relate to this! Made me laugh out loud. I forget how tall my toddler is so relocation of anything grabbable (which is now A LOT) is infuriating. My expensive prescription sunglasses? In the flower pot in the bathroom of course. My car keys? In the toy garage (makes a little more sense). The not listening thing drives me nuts. I get “what’s that?” or “what’s that noise” a billion times a day. I respond. I get it again. Now I respond with the question “What does it sound / look like?” and when she answers that, she seems satisfied that she is helping her stupid Mummy answer an obvious question.
Don’t get me started on the poo timing, It’s a conspiracy.
#wineandboobs
Cat
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I get ‘What are you doing?’. 2 seconds later … ‘What are you doing?’. Agh!
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Haha yes! Emma has just figured out how to turn off the washing machine. Not cool! And she definitely has selective hearing! Great post! #wineandboobs
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Welcome to my world, where a wash ends up taking three times as long and often includes: A. Lego pieces; B. Extra washing powder (like the whole box! Agh!) and C. Clean dry washing (thinks he’s helping but not so much!).
Oh the joy of parenting, I’d love to say it gets better as they grow up but it just changes! I have 6 of them ask me every night “what’s for dinner Mum?” and none listens to the last answer! I keep saying I’m going to put a menu board up in the kitchen.
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You should totally put a menu board up, 6 kids asking the same thing over and over again would get pretty exhausting 🙂
Haha mine do most of these things too – my 2 yr old is obsessed with pushing buttons, so a day doesn’t go by without the dishwasher doing a cycle with nothing in it, or all the buttons on the stereo being reset. Argh!
Mumma McD recently posted…Why toddlers are better than babies
I had to unplug my stereo because of that but then comes the next issue – the turned up volume knob being set to high volume when I turn it on! BOOOOM! Deafness. Much deafness. Gives me such a damn fright every time!
Oh goodness — I can relate to ALL of it! Especially the part about not listening! And keys! Just lost both sets of our car keys at the same time because of someone’s love of shoving things down the air vents! Thanks for posting on #sharwithme
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Air vents! Gah! We don’t have any of those thankfully but we do have a hole in the wall (literally, a hole thanks to a 2 year old who has a penchant for removing door stoppers and then shoving the door open) and we were amazed what we found in there while looking for something recently! Socks, toy trains, my comb, a fork …
Haha! Glad I am not the only one, my children have been known to turn the washing machine off mid cycle too, pretty annoying!! xx
Yep, pretty annoying is a good way to describe it 🙂 Thanks for popping by!
The pretend game is so nice for my son’s imagination but I sometimes cant keep up! I dont know when the pretending starts of ends a lot of times and that drives me bonkers! #sharewithme
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Haha, I can imagine! ‘Mummy, I’m hungry’ so you get him food ‘Mummy, I’m only pretend hungry’. Hehe. 🙂
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He he he, “having dinner with two Alzheimer patient” – made me giggle. My little guy is just 11 months old – plenty of time for him to drive me nuts 🙂
It’s totally like that sometimes, you’ll see 🙂 So much to look forward to, though they drive me nuts sometimes toddlers are hilarious creatures!
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That dinner table conversation is exactly the same as the ones we have here, it drives me batty!!
Em @ snowingindoors recently posted…Lightroom – What Is It And Do I Need It?
I now just tell him that everything is chicken, so much simpler!
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This post made me laugh out loud. Great job and I can totally relate to this. I love my kids to death but do they ever know how to push my buttons sometimes. #TheList
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Glad I gave you a laugh Rob, my 4 year old deliberately pushes my buttons these days, he thinks it’s hilarious.
that conversation actually made me laugh out loud! #TheList
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I know, it’s pretty funny huh! Infuriating at the time though!
Haidee recently posted…The Anti-Fitness Queen
While I can’t ever say anyone ever shouted at me at 5:30AM and they would have lived to see another day jokes, don’t know how you deal with that one I am not human before 7:30AM but the rest I am with you 100% and with two tots I get it twice daily. lol Too funny. Thank you so much for linking up to Share With Me, I hope to see you again tomorrow for another great round. #sharewithme
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Yeah, I’m not that human either, I rely heavily on coffee to get me through the mornings! I have usually downed 3 by 8.30am!
Haidee recently posted…The Anti-Fitness Queen
I get the books thing all the time. Love the daddy/chicken conversation! #fridayfrolics
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Yeah, it was gold 🙂
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Oh where to start! Putting ALL their toys into their beds every night so they have to lay scrunched up in a ball in one corner, and going CRAZY if you dare to move anything. Dropping 3/4 of their food on the floor. They certainly do test our patience don’t they? Becky x #fridayfrolics
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Haha, we have a ‘choose ONE toy for bed’ routine. Not that it keeps them in their beds all night mind you. I’m usually the one scrunched up in the corner of my own bed by morning!
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“good girl mummy” ha ha! The little one always does a poo 15 minutes before Daddy is due home. It’s only acceptable to leave him in it for 10 minutes but I can’t stand the smell for any longer than 5. Guess it’s my turn again then! Thanks for linking up to #FridayFrolics
Don’t you hate that! Gee, can’t they just hold on or something? LOL
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Oh yes, they are sent to try us aren’t they!?
My daughter likes to ‘tidy’ things. At least now I have realised that if I can’t find something it is probably in the toy basket or the shoe basket. Especially if it is neither a toy, nor a shoe!
x Alice
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Well that is a good trait to have! Why can’t my boys have that trait?!
Brilliant,my daughter flushes the loo while I’m on it too!Thanks a bunch kid x #fridayfrolics
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Glad it’s not just me!
My toddler loves posting things. Anything small enough to get “posted” is fair game. Phones, keys, remote controls, random bits of paper. I now have 3 identical remote control as we lose them so regularly. As soon as you buy another, the original one appears in one of my husbands shoes. Love this post, all so true. #fridayfrolics
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Ha! We have a few holes in the wall courtesy of my youngest removing doorstops and shoving the door knob through the door and you wouldn’t believe what we find in the holes! Thankfully he seems to have not done that for awhile and hubby is starting to fix them one by one!
Hahaha! Brilliant, this genuinely made me lol. Especially the bit about the conversation at dinner, mine is exactly the same. Its like Groundhog Day. #fridayfrolics
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