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Gillyx

*Nutella* wrote: »

Hi Gilly!!! How are you and your little man?

Hello, we're all good, just getting ready for Christmas now. Stressful as always :eek: going to visit in laws next week too to do our Santa duty, so trying to get organised for that. I'm looking to go back to work also :eek: and applied for a lot of jobs recently and had a really positive interview on Tuesday so will need to wait and see how that goes. A will be 3 at the end of January and I really don't know where time has gone, his sleep is worse now than it was at 6 months old, so I'm pretty much a zombie at the mo which isn't much fun. How are you and S? Xx

*Nutella*

Gillyx wrote: »

Hello, we're all good, just getting ready for Christmas now. Stressful as always :eek: going to visit in laws next week too to do our Santa duty, so trying to get organised for that. I'm looking to go back to work also :eek: and applied for a lot of jobs recently and had a really positive interview on Tuesday so will need to wait and see how that goes. A will be 3 at the end of January and I really don't know where time has gone, his sleep is worse now than it was at 6 months old, so I'm pretty much a zombie at the mo which isn't much fun. How are you and S? Xx

Oooh, that's exciting re. the job - keeping everything crossed for you! But boo to the sleep situation

We're good thanks - I'm really looking forward to xmas this year. She's pointing at lights and trees whenever we're out and about, and is loving her advent calendar. We even have the xmas crackers ready. I can't wait for her to unwrap her new train set We're going to a xmas fair at a local primary school tomorrow afternoon, which should add to the festive spirit, and then we're off to see 'One snowy night' at a local theatre next week - she's excited about meeting Percy! :rotfl:

dizziblonde

When Erin was confronted with Santa at the lights switch on recently - she just tried to nick his sleigh. But this is the same child who tried to carjack Postman Pat's van at Cbeebiesland earlier in the year.

I've got two beanpoles... even the youngest one is over 14kg and in 3 year old clothes now!

Saffagal

We had a lovely outing to Santa's grotto yesterday afternoon... she loved all the animals (deer, rabbits, owls, squirrels, foxes, etc etc), loved the elves, wasn't too sure about the wishing well as it was bubbling away.. happily pointed out the animals and then we got to Santa's cabin... lit only by a "fire" in the middle and at the thought of having to walk into this dim cabin with a strange man with a beard she promptly burst into tears and tried to run back the way we'd come to get away!

Once we'd left the grotto and she ripped her present open, she was thrilled with it though and forgot all about the "scary man".

As we're doing a Santa train in a few weeks am hoping it was mainly the darkness that put her off or that won't be a fun ride!

sunshine_1988

Hi Ladies

Nice to see you posting Gilly. Sorry to hear sleep isn't great, I suppose we are the opposite as my A was an awful sleeper up until about 20-22 months but now is pretty good. Definitely an early riser though, but I'll take that over a midnight wake up call. Is he just getting out of bed etc? A did go through a phase of having nightmares a few weeks back. Fingers crossed for your job.

Yay for your LO Nutella! Definitely a proud moment.

We have the nursery Xmas play next Saturday, A is Mr Santa haha. He has a costume but point blank refuses to try it on....

Anyone with a 2.5 year old, tantrums??? Big style here and I am struggling. Today, middle of town, huge meltdown because I wouldn't carry him. He is so good at walking and didn't need a carry at all, we had been in town about 10 minutes. In the end I had to carry him, but that did not pacify him as I then had close to ten minutes of him screaming at me 'I not like you anymore mummy' I found it quite upsetting. He had a similar strop with OH while I was cooking tea because OH removed him from the kitchen while I. Opened the oven. He got 'not like you daddy'

How is everyone else handling these? Please say someone else has them?! X

Saffagal

Hi sunshine, A is only 19 months but for the past two weeks we have had tantrums evrryday; full on face down kicking and screaming then rolling about whilst kicking and screaming. It can be for something like me offering lunch/ snack or trying to take her coat off.
I'm really struggling with them and it is making me want to put her in nursery full time just so I don't have to put up with them. At home I am now turning off any lights in the room she's in and walking out leaving her to it once she enters meltdown mode. The turning out lights only works when its dark out but does reduce the length of tantrum as she doesn't like the dark at present.

sunshine_1988

Thanks Saffagal. Sounds similar and it's nice to know I am not the only one haha! So far so good today but it's not even 9 am yet and we still need to tackle a trip to town and get his new coat on.....I can already sense the new coat will be signal for a melt down.

I will try the walking away and leaving him method when we are at home though. Yesterday I actually thought, would he rather I worked 5 days and didn't have a Friday with him? Sigh.

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Gillyx

I can deal with the tantrums now, 18 months later and I'm good at reading him, however what I can't deal with is the sheer defiance. Now when I'm asking him questions he just stares right at me and refuses to answer it is infuriating :eek: apparently this is the joys of having an almost 3 year old... Oh good.

sunshine_1988

Gillyx wrote: »

I can deal with the tantrums now, 18 months later and I'm good at reading him, however what I can't deal with is the sheer defiance. Now when I'm asking him questions he just stares right at me and refuses to answer it is infuriating :eek: apparently this is the joys of having an almost 3 year old... Oh good.

Oh no!! I wish I could spot one brewing, but they come out of nowhere with him slightly embarrassing when there is an audience too. My only bargain at the moment is santa is watching! !
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Mrshaworth2b

We had a meltdown the other day because he couldn't handle the stairs (after a class) and wanted to go down on his bum, queue of people behind us so I picked him up (thinking I was helping) only for him to sit down at the bottom refusing to move and scream. Rather embarrassing, but I didn't have the patience to deal with the silliness so I walked away and tried to encourage him to come, failing that I picked him up, for him to scream harder lol. Their hard work aren't they. He's taken to telling me nowadays when he's cried, like when I go up to him at night, like I haven't heard him over the monitor.

The other night I could hear him waking on the monitor and saying "mummy" and getting upset so I went up, only to open the door to him behind it standing there shouting "mummy cried" at the top of his voice. Scared the hell out of me and I actually screamed a little at the fright, he made me jump out of my skin. I didn't expect him to have gotten out of bed to meet me. Haha my oh thought it was hilarious. Two of us needed calming after that!!