Ok, so I am in a better place now than the last time I blogged.

Lila is housebroken. Its been about a week since the last accident and I am feeling rather confident. I have stopped asking her if she needs to go, she just trots off to the bathroom when she feels the urge & hey presto. She then comes back to inform me of the deed & request her chocolate drop reward . I am getting suspicious that there is a lot more attempts than necessary simply for chocolate so thinking we might need a new rule about Mum or a third party verifying the wee before we reward.

Today we went on our first out of doors adventure in underpants. I packed a towel, spare pants, spare underpants, nappies, wipes & a toilet roll for the trip to the supermarket. None was necessary although kept her amused while she rode around in the trolley - pulling out the toilet roll she asked 'Mum, Lila wipe now?" and started to try and remove her pants.

First day of kindy tomorrow... should be interesting.

Note to self

In case we contemplate more children, need to make sure I read this FIRST.

Diary of a typical day:

2am - Millie wakes. Resettle with dummy
4.30am - Millie wakes for a feed
6.30-6.45am - wake up to Lila shoving her finger in my eye while saying "Eyes, ears, nose, mouth". Roll over & close my eyes.
1min later- listen to Lila either opening the fridge door or the nursery door - time to get up.
7.00am - clean up wee off the floor after Lila takes her nappy off while I am breastfeeding Millie
7.30 - 8.30 lost in a maze of preparing breakfast, cleaning after breakfast, getting kids dressed, and redressed after Lila takes off her clothes & nappy again
8.32-8.35am - breakfast & a shower for me
Decide I might brave a trip out of doors so start to pack a bag for a 9am departure.
9.20am - car fully loaded & ready to go.
9.21am Lila yet again insists on using the toilet ...nothing happened except a lot of 'wiping' with toilet paper.
9.23am - Managed a wee on the floor (thank god for floorboards) during the chase to redress her.

Out of the house!!

11.55am - home / 2 hour nap for both kids. "Me" time, which means I do the washing / cleaning / cooking. Might manage lunch but usually not.

2pm. The afternoon session begins. More of the undressing and weeing anywhere but the toilet game all afternoon.
2.48 - Settle Millie on the floor with a toy.
2.49 - Get down to Lila's level to gently explain she needs to share her toys with Millie and not grab them off her
2.49 - Get down to Lila's level to gently explain she needs to share her toys with Millie and not grab them off her
2.49 - Get down to Lila's level to gently explain she needs to share her toys with Millie and not grab them off her
2.49 - Yank the toy out of Lila's hands and give it to Millie, yelling "Lila, share with Millie"
2.50 - Yank the toy out of Lila's hands and give it to Millie, yelling "Lila, stop it"
2.50 - Give up on the idea of Millie playing on the floor with a toy.
2.51 - Lila playing with her favourite doll, saying "Baby, stop it".
2.52 - Feeling guilty about the yelling so give Lila a biscuit.
2.53 - 4pm- Lila asks for another biscuit.

4pm - 7pm. A blur. Somehow kids get fed, bathed, read stories to & put to bed. Mat & I eat dinner to the soothing sounds of Lila alternatively playing and banging on the door to let her out of her bedroom.