Oh Sarah, you poor loves.......I have a mental image of it all going on in your household this morning.....

We had the same problem with Olivia.....nightmare.

It is only now that she will admit that "Hoover not scary. Just noisy. Nosiy hoover. But not scary"...................but for the past year or so she has been terrified, to the point where I just waited till DH took her out for a few hours so I could vac........

So I have no solutions I'm sorry, just time.........