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Top 10 naughty toddler moments

I wouldn’t say Edward has a naughty streak and I certainly don’t want to start giving his behaviour a label at the ripe old age of 17 months. However, I’ll be the first to admit he has his moments as he makes the transition into toddlerhood. I thought I’d make a top ten of his most challenging activities and boy was it a hard job limiting it to ten…

 

  1. constantly playing with the tv cabinet, switching the xbox on and off and pulling cables out
  2. taking advantage of my forgetting to put all the stair gates up and climbing onto the dining room table
  3. climbing upstairs to daddy’s office to play with his model aeroplanes or his work computer
  4. eating the stale bread put down for the birds
  5. putting our electric toothbrush down the toilet
  6. putting toilet rolls down the toilet
  7. screaming whenever someone he doesn’t know says hello to him (his current speciality)
  8. opening the washing machine door when it’s on
  9. giving me the cat’s water bowl when it’s full of water
  10. taking the box of Weetabix and eating them on their own whilst hiding in a corner!

We also took this little video of him recently, enjoying a trip to look at new beds. My husband cut out the running commentary of me saying mind your fingers as well as the bit where he falls out of the wardrobe as he’s laughing so much. It made a nice change that my husband made this recording as I’m normally the one who gets told off for filming him doing things he shouldn’t be!

 

 

This post has been written as part of the Tots100 Blog Hop competition sponsored by Dirt Devil

 

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Playgroups and cliques

Yesterday I ventured to our local NCT playgroup for the first time. I’ve been meaning to go for ages but never got round to it.

The playgroup was held in a lovely building with plenty of outdoor space. Indoors, the room was split into different play zones with space for soft play, art and crafts, musical toys, a pretend kitchen, a jigsaw table and dressing up clothes.

We paid £1.50 for the play session which lasted 90 minutes and ended up with a singing session.

I was really disappointed with it. It was our first time there and no-one spoke to us! Fortunately I met up with another mum and her 12 month old so we did have someone to talk to but if I hadn’t known her I think I would have left :( I don’t know why the NCT has such a great reputation as I find it so cliquey and full of Boden-clad mums who I wouldn’t want to be friends with.

Edward had a great time and I hope we’ll go again as there was a great range of toys and I want him to be sociable and at ease amongst his peers. I don’t understand why I get so intimidated by groups of mums but I need to make sure Edward turns out more confident than I am. He often picks up on my mood and seems to be happiest at story sessions at our local library where the parents and children are a more diverse and friendly group.

I’m hoping I’m not the only person to feel intimidated by play groups. Anyone else got any tips for being a confident mum?

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When do NCT friends become friends?

I really struggle to make friends and I’m finding being on maternity leave harder than I expected. Much as I love Edward I think motherhood can be quite lonely. All people want to talk about are babies! Our babies are the only things in common amongst the new mums’ groups I’ve joined but I find it difficult to get beyond the baby talk. Part of the problem is I do little else but look after Edward. I’ve started baking, cooking and sewing more in the evenings but I’m not sure these are of any interest to anybody but myself. :(

We took NCT antenatal classes like all our friends, where we were promised the opportunity to meet lifelong friends. Every week since our Antenatal classes the mums have met up. To be honest in the past 6 months I have gone 3 times. Why you may ask, when the whole point of these classes is to make friends? I think it’s something to do with the fact all they talk about is babies, each week it’s a new developmental step, lately it’s been going back to work. It all seems highly competitive too. Who can spend the most on baby clothes, which nursery to go to, who has lost their baby weight quickest. Blah blah blah. Who cares. I’d rather stay at home and bake ;)

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