First at 7.00 am my hubby woke me - he was in agony with a pulled muscle on his shoulder and needed gel like yesterday - I asked him why he couldn't have just gone to the medicine cupboard as there was both gel and painkillers - "Oh I never thought of that". What is it they say about men - they are practically dying when they are ill but women just get on with it or something to that effect!
Just now I have put my 3 mindees down for a sleep although I can still hear one on the monitor crying and shouting for his mum - if he keeps on at it he will waken the other 2!
The twins (aged 19 months) arrived at 8.00 and the other little boy aged 29 months at 8.30. That was a difficulty too - his elder sister was in the car and kept insisting she was sick. Mum said she wasn't taking her to nursery but she was going to grans - I got the impression she would be with me from dinner time on so that could mean any minute now she will land with me! We (mum and I) tried not to make a big thing of it in case the little brother got wind and decided he wasn't coming to me and seemed to work.
One of the twins was just in a mood for carnage today. He never settled from the moment he arrived, destroying every toy he could possibly. His latest trick is emptying boxes of toys all over the floor and then running away laughing and he repeated this quite a few times today already. He then destroyed the pop up tent quicker than I could repair it each time, then he climbed on top of the little kitchen and fell off. He has broken a little push along duck and generally made a real nuisance of himself. Between him crying when he didn't get his own way and the little older boy whining because toys were being taken off him my head is in a real spin.
At least the other twin did help me to put all the toys back in the box again although for him it was more like a game - shows that when you continually do something and repeat it the children do start to learn!
I am trying to work the twins into 1 sleep a day although it is a long day for them - they leave me at 6 pm tonight. Yesterday they only slept for an hour at 11.30 am and by the time they went home in the evening they were so exhausted they couldn't fight with dad to get out into the yard any more.
I would just really love some techniques to settle children easily - I was thinking this morning if only I knew what to do with a child when they are in the mood for destruction and not playing then things might be easier. Anyone got any suggestions? I have tried playing with them and that lasts for all of about 2 seconds. I have tried putting physical activity type toys out like a tunnel and slide and again they find someway of destroying the actual toy itself. I have also set toys out for them to play but they just go to the rest of the toys that are not out and empty them all over the floor. Is it just their age or will they settle eventually? I dread what it would be like if I ever took them to a toddler group - I might have to end up paying to replace their toys!
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