HELP!!! I have a human tornado on my hands! We just cleaned their room yesterday. We have not even got ready for the day, and look at it. She pulls all of the books out of the book shelf, opens the drawers and pulls the clothes out, takes all of her shoes out of the closet, pulls the puzzles out and takes all of them apart, emptys off the changing table, etc. etc. I started putting some things up higher on the bookcase where she couldn't reach them, and you can see her solution to that. Now she gets the stool out of the bathroom, and empties more things off.
I wish that it were only her room that she demolishes, but it is my entire house. I spend my whole day cleaning up after her. As I am cleaning one of her huge messes up, she is making another one. She is constantly one step ahead of me. I try to have her help me clean it up, and she ends up pulling more things out. Does anybody have any advise? Wyatt was not the cleanest two year old, but he was nothing like the tornado. If you have any tips please send them my way. You may save McKartnee from being locked in a closet until she turns 3. J/K
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Ginger, I am so sorry! That is just like Lincoln. I hate to say it, but you are just going to have move things up. Linc spent one year of his life with chairs up on our pub table. A thing that has worked well with my tornado though is bins! Lots of bins for toys. I put them up high enough that he can't reach them in his closet. Everything is labeled with a picture for his toys so he can tell me what he wants. I am so not an organized person at all. But this has helped me so much. I realized that he works way better with organization because otherwise he just dumps everything just to dump, and then doesn't even play with his toys that he dumped. This way, he asks for the toys and can get out a few different type of messy toys (blocks, potato head, trains), but has to clean up some before he gets out other ones. I don't know if this is like your problem, and you have Wyatt so that could be difficult since he is older. But, even though we aren't perfect with keeping up with it, it has saved my life!
That is sadly a little bit funny--only because we all have kids and know what it feels like! I was just saying to Brandon the other day that Amy is like the Tazmanian Devil and tornadoes her way all through our house. I think I've spent half my life as a mom bent over picking things up!
Katie thanks for the advise. I have blankets, sheets, etc in the top of their closet, but I am going to find a new place for those and put all of the toys, puzzles games etc up there. Any advice for the books? She will just go in her room and read books all of the time, I love that she does that, but they are always all over. Maybe if everything else is gone, it won't be that hard to keep those cleaned up.
Amber, we wonder why our backs always hurt right?
Once Annie got to the age that she wouldn't pick up her toys anymore (about one and a half), when she'd get something out I'd ask her if she wanted to pick it up or if she wanted ME to pick it up - of course she said me. It didn't take her long to learn that when I pick up toys I pick them up and keep them and she doesn't get them back until she earns them back. I think it took her having almost no toys to get that I was serious. But now when I say "time to clean up, who should do it" it takes her literally 3 seconds to get started - the girl wants to keep her toys! GOOD LUCK!!!!
Oh Amy ... I thought I had it bad but my girls are probably just getting started. Good luck. :) I went to a shower for Marianne a couple nights ago--so fun to see her. Heather was there, too, and Lori Smith and other people that I didn't know but you probably would. Heather was saying how, before we all got married, life was filled with drama, drama, drama, and now everything's just fine. It made me think back to the old times--I'm grateful I had such good people to share my drama with! :) I hope all is well back there--your little family is so cute.
Since we do love to encourage reading, I wouldn't be too hard on her for pulling them out. However, I think the same principle applies. Put a bunch away for a while, she'll never know. And when you put rotate in the "new" books, it will be a nice change for her. I love the idea from estinger. Let her choose who wants to pick them up. Life will never be totally organized though,at least for me. So, allow some messiness. I guess?! Why am I giving you advice? You have more kids than I do and older! This is just some stuff that has worked for me. Let's see, what should I ask you?
I have the same problem with my twins they are double trouble. They are into everything!!! Maddi is the leader and Abbi follows right behind. But you just have to make cleanig up be as much fun as making the mess. With them I say "see who can pick up the most books.." or "who can find the blocks and put them in the bucket"
Thats so funny, because our advice was going to be: Lock her in her closet until she's three. :)
Oh Amy!! I think as moms we can all relate to these situations. :) Our days are consumed with cleaning and trying to keep up with the kids. Doug will come home and say, "So what did you do today?" and I just think, where do I begin... (I'm sure a lot of the time it looks like I haven't done anything...although, that's definitely not the case. A clean room lasts an average of five minutes if I'm lucky! :) At least we can laugh about it! Good Luck!
My Pregnant mom solution- shut the door until dad gets home. Is that fair? Completely!
I think I like Beka's solution, Do you have to be pregnant to take that route????
Love the new blog set-up! It's very sassy and your family picture is great!
Being three doesn't help the situation, then you just have attitude with the mess!
simple solution, over dads knee pants come down, she gets her bum smacked good and she will cry, gently rub her bum to make it better, he unzips his fly and takes hiscock out, push her mouth on to it and teach her how to use it for the proper purpose, while she sucks he pulls her knix aside and softly eases his fingers into her warm, soft, moist, tight, hairless, 2 yr oldpussy and gentlyfucks her
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