What's the one thing you have trouble adjusting to with toddlers?

I still cannot get used to the fact that they can climb. Just a couple of minutes ago, I just found them standing on top of their toybox and peering out the window. I still have hard time believing that they can actually do that now :blush:

 

Almost everyday I get home and they have learned something new. Last night i got home to them singing along to the song "pokerface" (coutesy of two teenagers) and knowing all the words and dancing like she does on the music video.... was not a happy mommy, but it was funny. One minute they cant even sit up and the next... well lets see what happens tonight.

 

That they have opinions on things. It used to be that I would put on their socks and shoes and coat and get out of the house. Now they have to pick out their socks and shoes and coats, and maybe if they feel like it they'll cooperate. It just takes me SOOOOOO much longer to do anything now.

 

For me the one nap transition has been brutal! We have been struggling with it for about 5 months now!

 

The little angry outbursts and fit-throwing! Why did they have to go and get opinions for?? :lol:

 

How exhausting it is. Independence. Willful disobedience. Not a shred of common sense or fear. The whining. The tantrums. Their ability to push each others buttons.

The smiles. The giggles. The hugs. The kisses. The love. Because there has to be good things to go with the bad or we would be extinct.

 

The fact that DD didn't wear a dress until she turned about 13.5months old, and now at 15months that's all she wants to wear. She honestly finds the clean laundry basket and digs through until she finds one of about 3 dresses that she likes and then brings it to you and whines until you put it on her - since when do 15months olds care what they wear??
I went to get a snack for the kids and I walk back out (this was about 45seconds of being away) and DS was STANDING (balancing) on the arm of the couch! Yes, the climbing stage has been one that I have NOT enjoyed.

 

For me it was the fact that they insisted on picking out their own clothes. And yeah, the opinions in general.

 

I have to agree with the ever-changing and unpredictable opinions, as well as the willfulness. They aren't babies anymore - that's for sure.

 

Hmm... nothing really. I was pretty prepared since I was an avid book reader and magazine reader I prepared myself for it ahead of time... as well as my inlaws telling me all the horrifying stories! LOL

The one thing that I have a hard time adjusting to is, how in the heck did they get this big, so fast!?

 

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How exhausting it is. Independence. Willful disobedience. Not a shred of common sense or fear. The whining. The tantrums. Their ability to push each others buttons.

The smiles. The giggles. The hugs. The kisses. The love. Because there has to be good things to go with the bad or we would be extinct.

What she said! :acute:

 

The pushing & shoving each other out of the way :gah:
Especially if their hero, Grandma, is over...they both want to be her only grandkid & are downright MEAN to each other! :catfight:

 

LOL... I have to agree the tantrums! Somedays ANYTHING will set them off! (example... yesterday I shut the bathroom door after baths so they couldn't go in there in play... it stays shut all the time... you would have thought the world had ended)

 

The TANTRUMS! :grr:

 

The tantrums. DS has a tantrum if I go to the bathroom because he wants to use the potty at that exact time.....or if food falls apart in his hands, you would think the sky was falling.

DD-she is now into shoes and has to pick hers out on her own. When did they get to be so independent with certain things.

Of course what pp said about double the giggles and those few and far between tender moments.

 

I'd have to say the brawling, biting, kicking and pushing. The ingenuity, once one of my dd found a plastic container, pushed it down the hall to the baby gate and then proceeded to try to scale the gate by climbing up on it. And sometimes how smart they are really takes me by surprise.

 

The biting, hitting the face and the fearlessness when climbing! The tantrum are kind of a laugh - and I have to admit sometimes I do laugh at them and say "Really - life is that tough?" It is such a joy to watch them growing up into these delightful little people!

 

Everything that everyone has said. I found Kylie on the dining room table after being away for a minute!!! What was she doing up there!
And Kay, temper tantrums, she lays down bangs her fists on the ground while kicking her feet in the air and whining! oh dear...