Feel free to list all the things in your house that your toddler is constantly touching which is driving you insane!!! Let's see if there is a pattern. List your toddlers age and then the stuff:
My 2yo is always touching:
Textas
The fridge, specifically the yogurt.
Books on my bookcase (leaves his own alone)
The toothpaste
Apples (one bite then leaves them lying around the house).
DVDs in the DVD player... tries to get them out himself.
The dial on the dishwasher (no child lock).
The Cereal box in the Pantry
If he was my only child maybe it wouldn't be so bad.... but my 5yo and 14yo are kinda facilitating my 2yo getting his hands on all of the above when they leave them within his reach.
Arrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!!
Last edited by Bathsheba; May 29th, 2009 at 12:56 PM.
: Added more because other posts reminded me!
I wish my DD would leave the kitchen alone even though we have gates, she constantly whinges to get things from there even though she knows shes not aloud.
Pens!! We have lost count how many times she has drawn on the walls around here
Yogurht is another one for me!! She makes such a mess with it, we give her a spoon for a reason!!
Not leaving her brother alone, if DS is crying she makes it worse by pushing him or scratching his head (thats a new one) or pinching him!!
Water, dribbling it into anything that can hold it and then making a mess with it so we have big wet patches on the carpet or hard floor!
But in all the bad, I still love her!! Luckily she does more good then bad hehe!
TV remotes
Computer Keyboards
Presses buttons on the dishwasher (so I have to unplug it)
The plasma TV screen
Shoes
Books and book like things (eg: catelogues, magazines, newspapers etc).
Plasma TV screen
DVD player
the cutlery drawer (seriously! The kid picks out stuff and then licks it and puts it back!!!)
the fridge - she gets her milk out (she has special milk) and I am so terrified I'm going to have milk all over my floor!
My lip balm!!!!! She EATS it! Seriously! If it isn't in my pocket - she finds and destroys it!
-Absolutely anything that can mark a wall. The older kids are getting better but still leave them lying around sometimes.
-The kirby bits. I can never find them when I need them
-My shoes. He is always taking one for a walk.
All in all he isnt really that bad.. the older ones drive me more nuts for touching things they know damn well they shouldnt!
So true Mags... my 14yo touching (and using up) my tweezers and makeup does probably annoy me more because you would think by then you should only have to tell them once! But nooo.... every morning I go into her bathroom and find at least one of my things lying on the sink bench that she shouldn't have been touching. When will it end?
30 months:
Laptop, fridge, tv controls, power points, parts to the vac, cutlery draw, textas and pens, linen cupboard, baby wipes, ear buds,toilet paper and my expensive creams
19 months:
Glasses cupboard, mugs, the mouse and keyboard on DH's computer, tv remotes, nappies, plates and bowls
My laptop....grrr
Also apples and takes a bight and puts them back or uses them as tennis balls.
Pens
My deoderant and sprays and sprays...thought the last one went quick!
And the shampoo/conditioner/buble bath....likes to decorate the bath
The dial on the washing machine that puts the tumble dryer on - after I've put washing on! So if I don't check it every 10 minutes things get dried.
The book I'm currently reading. Stop taking it away, after 3 hours of trains I needs some "me" time! (2 hours of trains and I'm on BB as we watch the TV together.)
My washing on the airer. It is wet. It is not a train. Stop mussing it all up or bringing wet things to me. Not helpful.
The next big toy without putting the current big toy away. He knows the rules.
The stuff on the mantlepiece.
Going in my dressing table drawers and trying to drink my (thankfully sealed) Lancombe make-up remover. Or putting perfume bottles all over the house. Or taking my Elizabeth Arden powders and scratching his fingers through it.
eta- DS makes beds. He loves it when I shake the duvets over him and helps me with that, but his own sheets he tends to smooth and pull up himself, if not tuck in properly. I have a strange one LOL.
Last edited by Ca Plane Pour Moi; May 29th, 2009 at 05:18 PM.
DS is only one (almost), so I clearly have a long way to go. But the thing he just loves, loves, loves to get into at the moment is the insoles in my shoes. He just adores pulling them out and sucking them. Ew. Gross and very annoying.
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Four months after we've finished b/fing, he still seems to think they are comfort objects he can play with when we're co-sleeping 
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