Uh-oh, TROUBLE with a capital "A"
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Topic: Uh-oh, TROUBLE with a capital "A"
Posted By: mum2paris
Subject: Uh-oh, TROUBLE with a capital "A"
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 1:01am
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Yes, Ayja, sorry for the long post, but here are the adventures of the terrible 2 yr old that is giving us a run for our money, and making us go grey.
Ayja has turned into the monkey-nut mischeif maker from hell. I do not know what to do with her, at the moment we really just deal with it, then when she's not around we have a wee laugh and a bit of "oh my god what will she do next?!" but it has to stop. really it does. Lets recount the events of the past week shall we? Sunday: did not end up going for a sleep in the afternoon, had been put back into bed many times as she has now decided that "i can so i will" get out of bed and create havoc while we think she is supposedly asleep, started with her knocking on the hallway door saying "i've got poos" which is her favourite excuse for getting outta bed.. (9 times out of 10, she hasn't got them). so back to be she goes After we really did think she was asleep from not having heard anything more, I go up to check. I open the hallway door, and find Jammie bear and blankie at the hallway door/entrance to our room. I look in our room... little girl has brought her little stool from her pretend vanity set, down to our bedroom, has used it to get to my dresser, mikes dresser, and has rearranged a fair few things around. Piled on our bed is my new full container of body shop body butter (thank god she hadn't opened it), the digital camera, a few little ornaments, she's been "sleeping" in my side of the bed, theres an un-opened but rather disheveled-looking packet of wheelies bickies sitting on mikes pillow and a packet of raisins next to it too.. don't know where they came from ??!!. . but wait, where is the little devil who caused this? i hear noises from the bathroom, we go in to see miss Ayja, with her lip gloss that only mummy and daddy put on her (the girls get dry lips so have their own lip gloss), she is smearing it back and forth and back and forth along her lips, her singlet has it smeared on it, it's in her hair and no matter how much i clean her up she reeks of "strawberry sundae" for the rest of the day and much of the next. But wait, there's more... Tuesday: We get home from daycare, park the car in the internal access garage, open the door into the lounge, and let the kids in to take off shoes, while we get stuff outta the boot. Paris comes back out to talk to us, We all head back inside expecting ayja to be doing her usual.. playing with dolls or such like, or maybe having gone up to her room to get something out. we get inside, Paris goes to find ayja, and comes back "ayja's in the bathroom!" before we can do anything Ayja comes walking out, with my new bottle of milk and honey body wash in one hand, ....open, ...licking her fingers, "I'm just tasted it" she says. I panic, as you do, I go over to her, she breathes on me - breathing out milk and honey scented breath. so we go through the questions, you know the ones, "what did you do?, did you tip it? did you drink it? did you squeeze it out like this?" she looks at me as if i'm mad and says "no mum, I'm told you.. I just licked it" you know, cos it's no big thing apparently. couldn't see anything on the label about poisons or inducing vomiting, and she wasn't coughing up bubbles, so i figured she was ok, although made her have a huge huge amount of water to drink (lol, gave her insides a good clean maybe?) So we go through the chat about things in the bathroom being for washing ourselves only (we don't keep any cleaners/meds or anything in there) then go to the pantry and explain that things in the pantry are for eating... and i make a mental note to buy kiddi-locks for bathroom cabinets, and to keep the door closed. So, wednesday rolls around: we keep them home for a half day. Sleep time comes. we leave the hallway door partially open figuring we will hear her if anything goes on. nothing goes on, for 45 minutes we have peace, until we get her running through the door looking delightedly refreshed, "me got poohs" she says, well well well, she actually does for once. Oh well, i think, at least she slept 45 mins. I go to go up to open her curtains, so glance into our room, again i see that cute little pink and purple stool, proped against the side of our bed.. our bed looks, hhm, jumped on, the bedside light is on, the alarm clock is hanging by the cord halfway down the front of my dresser... which has a mess in front of that too. The ground by my dresser has an old purse (you know the mummy purse with EVERYTHING in it) that i had stopped using but not really cleared out, she had pulled it out from hiding place - picking that's where she got the wheelies from the other day maybe?, there is also an open, empty packet of jubes lollies.. cannot remember if there was any left in there, am hoping there wasnt, cos if there was, she ate em, and OMG  a packet of coldral tablets, with none missing (again thank god! said-purse has now been cleared of its contents fully)
... I wonder to myself if she has some supernatural stealth-mode powers to sneak past the hallway door, and do all this stuff, AGAIN, without us noticing., I vow that our door shall be closed for nap times and that her little partner in crime - the vanity stool - will be taken from her room at sleep times. Again, there's more ..if you're still reading Tonight, Friday night: I am at work, I ring mike about 8.30pm to say that I have arranged a ride home this evening, he's talking to me, obviously walking around with the cordless phone, I hear him say that they have been in bed since 7pm, going good apparently, he then walks to check on them.. Opens the hallway door, when there is a little jammie bear, blankie, and her drink bottle (which is kept on little vanity stool). All i hear on the other end of the phone is: "whaaaattt the... " *trailing off into momentary silence* "Why do you have vaseline?!.. oh my god, I gotta go" followed swiftly by the phone call being ended. I wait for around half an hour and ring back. Apparently mike forgot not to close the hallway door, and take away the vanity stool, again miss ayja had gone into our room, climbed up, turned on the bedside lamp (she she could see what she was doing of course!) and had gone through my jewellery drawers, jumped on our bed, then found my small basket on the dresser. You know how everyone when you have your first goes "buy vaseline, you can put it on their bottom to stop the meconium sticking!" lol, well i followed that advice, both times, but had never used it. I still had the pottle from when i had ayja, sitting in the basket on my dresser. Mike had gone into the hallway, seen our light on, and then miss ayja came from up in her room, holding the open pottle of vaseline, upon her coming closer he saw that she was covered, head to toe, inch thick, in vaseline.. hence the "oh my god i gotta go" moment. Her drink bottle upon closer inspection, was also an inch thick covered in vaseline, although jammie and blankie weren't - hhhm wreaking havoc is thirsty work!  . We have not found anything else with vaseline on it thank goodness.. am sure though, since she had it up in her room, that we will....even though we have checked the obvious places. She did tell mike that she licked it too but it tasted yucky. AND. she had not even been to sleep at all, so she better slepp in tomorrow!
There you go, rather a novel.. but it's over.. for now. Dammit, i thought i had another kid like Paris, a sit-stay baby, you told her no, she didn't do it, she didn't get into stuff ever.. and neither has ayja until now.. we've never had to lock anything, close doors etc, we don't leave unsafe stuff down low, but i have now realised that maybe some toddler-proofing is in order... that - or maybe i might resort to sticking the side back on her cot! 
ARGH, 2 yr olds! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 1:19am
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Hehe little madam! I have one of those too- safety gate on their door. Works a treat! ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 7:53am
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ha ha ha ha..... Yes i have learnt the second is the devil child that the first never was. You have my sympathy. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:12am
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LOL she is really is giving you a run for ya money ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:12am
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wow, adventurous wee thing isnt she
(sorry i couldnt read half your post tho cause your sig is too big and makes the post get covered by ads.) |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:24am
| second babies ay! poor you guys! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:30am
oh, wanted to say too i have had toby in the sudocrem, powder all over my floor, a tube of bonjela everywhere, and the latest one is unstuffing my cushions - has all this little fluffy stuff in it! they certainly make you think about where stuff is left and how easy it is to get...oh and then they grow and all of a sudden they can reach the higher up stuff... 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 10:16am
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Oh no Ayja Jack has been into vaseline as well.
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 11:35am
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LOLOL!!!! I would be sorely tempted to buy a slide lock for the outside of her door during sleep times.... Yes our Briona is far more inquisitive than Miss sit-and-read-a-book Hannah also! But not to that extent (I hope) -------------  |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 1:13pm
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ooooh so THAT's what makes the darn ads there.. lol I will go and change it !! annoying thing! ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 1:45pm
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We have since found that baby tad has vaseline on his hands - i found this out when going to put her down for a nap just before i go to turno n the 6 mins till nightnight function and my hand almost slides right off the button. Tad will be getting a wash when she wakes up. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 3:44pm
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Omigosh, laughter with tears. I'm sorry, but she's just so cheeky!!
I thought Hannah was bad! (P.S. Understand completely with the poos thing. Hannah would save them up especially so she could get out of bed. ARGHHH) Geepers I hope she gets over this soon. For your sanity. And Mike's! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:08pm
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Ha ha.. I emailed it to mike's Parents.. to which i got this reply:
" Having read your story from start to finish. It reminds us of a certain young lad years ago that had the same tendency's. You will still have to look forward to the kiddy locks being totally ineffective as she'll discover how to unlock them and then set about demolishing things like your prized dinner set. The list of Aya's accomplishments will grow. LIKE FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lol, she has also since then very happily said to me "i ate all the sugar lollies!" so the answer is yes.. there had been jubes in the bag. Icky monkey child. The thing is, she just has this little mischievious streak you can see a mile wide. The main thing i worry about is her tendency to want to taste everything.  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 8:38pm
lol!! Ayja sounds like a little monkey Ahhh...all the things I have to look forward to  ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 9:49pm
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Yay....Yay....Yay.... I thought it was something abnormal that Anastasia was doing, I have gone thru two bottles of pinetarsol oil in less than a week as little miss has found them, not to mention cremes, lotions & potions thank goodness hasn't ventured into out room ...yet! we close the door to the bathroom but the little minx can open it, would love to put a high lock on the door but that would mean having to help Ashlyn then when she needs to wash hands after toilet, may look at getting her to wash hands in kitchen. I'm soooo glad, sorry for you, but glad we're not the only ones going thru the same thing!!! ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 06 October 2007 at 9:56pm
Hey....just a thought, maybe its because they have 'A' names, but then that wouldn't work for Jayde ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 07 October 2007 at 10:01pm
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lol.. omg what a rascal hehe.. you know red hair means trouble though I've had icing sugar, flour all over the floor... but vaseline, arrgghh!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 07 October 2007 at 10:02pm
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p.s - apparently when my dad was about 2 yrs, he used to unscrew the wing nuts on his cot to take it apart, and then escape! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 08 October 2007 at 8:53am
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lol! Is he a tradesman now?
yeah we are just keeping watch, as even though it was all gotten off her face, there was a red patch under her eye that came up over that night, and one on her forehead, (only half 5 cent piece size if that) but they seem bigger today so am wondering if either she's donked something, or if her skin reacted tot he vaseline.. i would wonder if maybe there could still be some on her skin somehow, even though she's been washed and rewashed and dunked through the bath too. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: mummy_dee
Date Posted: 08 October 2007 at 2:39pm
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Oh no! My son is really good, and will generally listen if we say, 'no, don't touch' - I wonder what is in store with number 2!! ------------- Daphne Married Stuart: 19/03/05 Oliver: 9/06/06 Lilia due: 19/03/08 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Helen21
Date Posted: 10 October 2007 at 4:00pm
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I could not stop laughing! It was like I was reading a story about Miya! She does all those sort of things and worse! Chloe was so good at the same age, the worst she would do is sneak out of bed to get a book then sit on her bed to look at the pictures or maybe on a brave day get out of bed and play with her toys but she would never leave her room. We have now started shuting Miya's door in the afternoons but you wouldn't believe what she silently gets up to in there when she is "sleeping". She does the poo thing too but she will go in her nappy, take the nappy off then scream because there is poo on the ground! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Chloe 12/7/03 Miya 5/11/05 |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 11 October 2007 at 9:15am
OH GOD!! I was about to post that Ayja sounds just like Joey and he is #1... maybe I don't want this second one to come out.... It's exhausting and frustrating isn't it Janine, Joey does my head in but he is so darn CUTE that he almost always can get away with things, nothing I can do but give a big sigh and carry on!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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AlyAyde wrote:Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 11 October 2007 at 1:15pm
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last night we had a bit of a standoff.
the background to this was yesterday we had bought a pack of calci-yum choccy milk. I gave her a small amount (um about 25mls) topped up to 100mls with plain milk. Later in the afternoon mike got her afternoon tea, to which ihad said they could have a bit more. so he gave her, 150mls worth of PURE choclate milk.. (the cocoa percentage in that milk is sky fricken high!!). Anyway last night started the getting out of bed thing, however all doors etc were closed, her stool was in the lounge. First we knew was she snuck into the lounge, thinking we wouldn't see her, and picked up her stoll. Mike asked what the heck she thought she was doing to be met with her pretty much freaking out and jumping through the roof! lol. cut a long story short, she continued to get out and come into the lounge, a million times, finally mike said to her "if you get up again, you'll have to go outside and sleep with the bunny" lol, didn't really do much, she still kept getting up. Then it clicked that the chocolate milk was the reason for her staying awake, we have learnt our lesson with choccy before (half a freddo frog for pudding and she stayed up for hours!) So i even tried patting her head to help her go to sleep, you could see she was dog tired but "I'm just can't go sleep" she told us. Lol, anyway, the last straw was her coming out to us, approx 10pm (after going to bed at 7) and she goes to mike "I want to sleep with the bunny please!" lol, man she called his bluff. she wasn't so sure once he opened the door though. cheeky little monkey.------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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