I think just as the clinginess is about to end, the separation anxiety kicks in and you start all over again.... Having said that, DS is at an awesome age atm, and I love having him around me all day. The times I resent it and wish he'd let me put him down (and get on with housework etc), the worse it gets (and I think I spent way too much time doing that when he was a newborn - all those self-imposed expectations of having to be Supermum :shake head. When I just go with it and spend time with him, we have soooo much fun together. If the vacuuming doesn't get done, so what? If it takes 30 minutes to hang the washing out, so what? I have the most amazing little boy who teaches me so much more than a vacuum cleaner ever could.

Toilet tip - I'd take the bouncer in there and bounce it, plus sing and make faces and that would buy me just enough time to do what I needed to (with grizzles, but not full blown upset crying).

OP, you cracked me up with Klingon - DH calls the the 'remnants' on the toilet bowl Klingons (as in, "There's Klingons on the starboard bow"!!!!) ROFL