[msarkie]

Any other MS moms with small kids? Today was one of those days!!!! Erin (2) is potty training, so lots of dirty, smelly laundry and a very messy bathroom. She is also very stubborn. When Sam was little, I had problems with him thinking up new things to get into all the time. With Erin, I'm frustrated because it's the same things OVER and OVER!

For instance, 4 times previously she's left our yard and gone to the neighbor's to play on the swingset without asking (2 acres away). I've walked the yard boundaries with her, told her repeatedly, spanked her twice. Today? She's off again!

Then I get caught between the two of them misbehaving. Erin had to come in from playing because she wet her pants. While I was cleaning her up, Sam went and found the biggest mudhole he could and came back covered to the knees. He then came into the house, accompanied by the wet muddy dog, to proudly show me his shoes! While I had him outside getting stripped down, Erin started playing in the bathroom sink. When I caught her, she had filled her tennis shoe with water and started sticking toothbrushes in it. AAAUUGGHH!

Does anybody else have days like this, and what do you do about it?

[ckepi]

(((((hugs))))))

Sorry you had such a trying day. Kids can be interesting can't they?

My nephew is 1.5 and he gets into everything repeatedly. He is a challenge .

We are lucky our DD very rarely gets into stuff, she's 6 now but she was always pretty good. The worst she did was peel the wall border off her wall . But it wasn't totally her fault I was sick and in bed.

She was in her crib and had had enough of being in there, DH got home and found her in her crib surrounded by wallpaper while I was zonked out in bed.

what are you going to do?

I hope today is better!

[CayoKay]

yes.

3 kids... aged 6, 2, and 1 (this was many years ago, but this day is permanently ENGRAVED on my brain!)

the night before, we'd watched a television special on Mount St. Helens eruption.

at dawn, I hear some odd noises down in the kitchen.

I come down the stairs to see...

VOLCANOES all over the carpet!

made with nutritional yeast, dried oats, rice, and macaroni.

the "trees" are parsley.

the LAVA is paprika!

and there's my 2 year old son with a BIG ol' SMILE on his face... so proud of his project.

I go to wake my daughter for school, and she has a high fever... and the baby's ALSO feverish in his crib...

clean up the upstairs mess, make some hot broth, nurse the baby...

go back downstairs...

use up ALL the vacuum cleaner bags trying to get the food out of the carpet, and run the washing machine to take care of the barfy linens, up the stairs, down the stairs, get everyone situated and comfortable... except...

where's my middle son?

oh NO!

he got the TOOTHPASTE, and squeezed out decorative lines around ALL the drawer molding in the bathroom!

the last thing I remember is sitting on the stairs, crying...

[ewizabeth]

Oh boy, what a day! I hope tomorrow is a better day for you!

I had two boys, two years apart. I have some stories! The oldest, our curious one, did some things that we can laugh about now.

Once, when we'd moved into an old house, he disassembled the thermostat for the furnace, cut one tiny wire, and reassembled. We awoke to a freezing house on a subzero night. It took DH a long time to figure out what he did.

Also, once in church, he went to the restroom. He was gone about ten minutes. DH was just about to go after him when he walked down the aisle toward us. His shirtsleeves were rolled up and his forearms damp. DH decided to go see the bathroom himself to see what might have happened. Turns out the toilet tank had been completely disassembled inside. It took DH about twenty minutes to reassemble it and get back to the pew. Needless to say, DS was in hot water over that.

There are many, many more like this! He kept us on our toes!

[PolarExpress]

It's always rough when the kids decide to tag team you..Really, you will laugh about this someday (really)..

[Erin524]

Originally Posted by ewizabeth

Oh boy, what a day! I hope tomorrow is a better day for you!

I had two boys, two years apart. I have some stories! The oldest, our curious one, did some things that we can laugh about now.

Once, when we'd moved into an old house, he disassembled the thermostat for the furnace, cut one tiny wire, and reassembled. We awoke to a freezing house on a subzero night. It took DH a long time to figure out what he did.

Also, once in church, he went to the restroom. He was gone about ten minutes. DH was just about to go after him when he walked down the aisle toward us. His shirtsleeves were rolled up and his forearms damp. DH decided to go see the bathroom himself to see what might have happened. Turns out the toilet tank had been completely disassembled inside. It took DH about twenty minutes to reassemble it and get back to the pew. Needless to say, DS was in hot water over that.

There are many, many more like this! He kept us on our toes!

I used to take things apart too. Never did the plumbing, but I took all the bulbs out of all the strings of xmas lights one day when I was about 5. It was christmas time, and my parents were getting ready to decorate the tree. I put them back, in a different order of colors, and we still had those strings years later.

I was also making the lights on the tree blink without a blinker bulb (this was long before they had the computerized lights) My mom hated the blinky lights, but my sister and I liked them.

I remember taking my roller skates apart. I got them put back together, but missed one of the ball bearings in one of the wheels. The lady at the skating rink who fixed the wheel for me never knew that I'd taken all wheels off...she though I'd only done it to one of the wheels.

I'm the one who always gets "volunteered" to put my aunt's grandchildren's xmas presents together before xmas. I dont usually need directions.

I like taking things apart and building things, it has to be one of the reasons I have so much fun with crafts like crochet. I'd probably get into doll houses if it wasnt such an expensive hobby.

[rdmc]

Little kids can try your patience, but there's light at the end of the tunnel...they grow up, if you can just wait long enough,LOL.

Your story reminded me of the "worst offender" in our family. My sister's youngest son by far caused the most problems of any child in our extended family.

When he was 3, within the course of a couple of weeks, he:

1. intentionally locked the keys to my sister's car in her car...when asked why he said he really liked the AAA man and wanted him to come to the house (my sister had had to call him once before when she'd locked the keys in the car.)

2. his dad took out the old tile counters in their bathroom, using a hammer, and when the new granite counter slab was installed, the kid decided to imitate his dad and took a hammer to the slab (luckily they caught him before he did too much damage, just nicked an edge in a few places)

3. his sister was getting married, and he decided to play with the veil, ruining part of it...consequences, her wedding veil became a short veil rather than a long one.

Now for the good news, he grew up, has a full ROTC scholarship to college, and is a very responsible young man...but when he was young, my sister often said if he had been her first, instead of her last, she would have had an "only" child.

The worst thing I can remember from when my son was small wasn't really a mess, but he and his cousin were playing in a wading pool in the yard, they were probably three or four. From a distance it looked like they were playing with a toy boat in the pool, but when we got closer it turned out they had found a dead fruit rat in the yard (anybody that lives in Florida and has fruit trees know how big those monsters can be) and the boys said they were teaching it to swim. Yuck, yuck, yuck...we had to scrub them down from head to toe and then we'd scrub somemore. Makes me shudder just to think of it, even now.

[turtle_78]

I have 2 kids my son is 4 and my daughter is 3. I have only had one major thing go on in my house. My son was just able to reach the counters, I was making dinner and went to grab the knife I just put down and it was gone. I ran into his bedroom and there he was with his diaper box and the knife. he was stabing the knife into it because he liked the sound it made. Well that was the last time I ever used a knife to cut cardboard to make a ramp for his cars. he was 2 1/2 at the time

Now my daughter has not done anthing yet but, potty traing was a nightmare. I was changing her pants about 8 times a day. My MIL told me to do to her what her mom did to her. She told me to just keep her in her wet pants and that would get her trained. i did it and from that day on she has been going potty she was 2 at the time.

[Kitty]

It's been years since I had toddlers but I can remember some of the things my boys used to do.

When Matt was four he unwrapped every single slice of cheese and stuck each one to the front of the refrigerator!

Then just a few weeks later he got into the closet in the bathroom and unwrapped each mini-pad he found and stuck each one to the back of the bathroom door!

He liked sticky things I guess!

I don't remember Kevin ever doing anything like this. The only thing I have on him is a picture of him when he was about two - he had just had a bath and was naked as a jaybird. He was standing in the middle of the kitchen eating a cherry popsicle and wearing two Christmas stockings on either foot!

They will grow up - way too fast - and you'll remember these times and smile. I know it's had to think that way, though, when they are both ganging up on you at once!!

[NaeNae]

ahhh the tag team! As you knwo I have a two year old as well who is being VERY resistant to potty training...I took apoll in walmart the other day of everyone waiting in line to get potty training advice! LOL My son was easier than she is! Just this morning while in a major flare I might add,Olivia gets naked and is screaming for Shrek and breakfast, my son is running around trying to go outside because it snowed overnight and he and the neighbor boys want to play in it before it melts, in the process he lets the dog out the front door who then goes tearing off after a cat! So off I go in a housecoat and bare feet in the snow having a flare and chasing the dog,...and yesterday was worse!

I think all of us MS mommies have those days...some of us frequently! I try to send them upstairs to destress or pop a pill and relax a few other days I'm sobbing in the bathroom with the door closed and the shower on!