What do you GD mamas do when your kids have the silliness on them and everything you say or do is hilariously funny but requires no action/attention?
DD is just getting in to this but today made me think i should get advice..
She came and said "caca!" (her word for poopy) so i whipped her nappy off but was too late - she'd already begun pooing. "No worries sugar" i said and put her on the loo (on her little seat). Then i said "Finish your caca sweets" and went to bag and bin the nappy ('sposie).
On my way back i heard hysterical laughter and stamping about. I went in to find poo all over the seat and on the floor and DD screaming with laughter about it. I was pretty revolted in the basic sense (i.e. not with her but because poo is stinky and was everywhere!), so i said "Oh stand still DD, let me clean up" and she just continued laughing and stamping about in it while i tried to wipe up around her. Eventually i stripped her off completely and dumped her in the shower (we'd been about to take a shower together anyway) so i could clean up. But by then i was, i admit, beginning to feel mad/frustrated with her laughing at me and making a bigger mess when i was seriously put off by the poo and having to clean it up (and i mean it was GROUND in to the lino and in all the gaps of the loo seat, i had to really scrub it off!).
I didn't get upset with her, i cleaned it up, stripped off, hopped in the shower and made sure the poo was off her skin and then we had our usual jolly time in the shower.
But it HAS happened before that the more she laughs at me, and does so as she directly disobeys me (i.e. running into rooms she's not allowed in, messing up things she's not allowed to touch, making my job, whatever it is right then, much harder) it is MUCH more annoying than her ignoring or disregarding me because it feels such a slap in the face, like "oh i'm listening mama, i just couldn't care less! hehe!".
So i guess my question is how do you all deal with it. I'm thinking the 2 ways i can think of are to do as i did above, stay calm and not really engage with her silliness until i'm in a place to be able to enjoy it (i always have this niggling feeling i should enjoy the happy moments and not try to crush them just because MY day got a bit more complicated) or actively be involved with the silliness in such a way that i get her to willingly obey, still laughing.
I have noticed her dad also finds her frustrating in these moments and have heard him say "it's NOT funny lady!" but that makes her laugh even more...
HELP!?
DD is just getting in to this but today made me think i should get advice..
She came and said "caca!" (her word for poopy) so i whipped her nappy off but was too late - she'd already begun pooing. "No worries sugar" i said and put her on the loo (on her little seat). Then i said "Finish your caca sweets" and went to bag and bin the nappy ('sposie).
On my way back i heard hysterical laughter and stamping about. I went in to find poo all over the seat and on the floor and DD screaming with laughter about it. I was pretty revolted in the basic sense (i.e. not with her but because poo is stinky and was everywhere!), so i said "Oh stand still DD, let me clean up" and she just continued laughing and stamping about in it while i tried to wipe up around her. Eventually i stripped her off completely and dumped her in the shower (we'd been about to take a shower together anyway) so i could clean up. But by then i was, i admit, beginning to feel mad/frustrated with her laughing at me and making a bigger mess when i was seriously put off by the poo and having to clean it up (and i mean it was GROUND in to the lino and in all the gaps of the loo seat, i had to really scrub it off!).
I didn't get upset with her, i cleaned it up, stripped off, hopped in the shower and made sure the poo was off her skin and then we had our usual jolly time in the shower.
But it HAS happened before that the more she laughs at me, and does so as she directly disobeys me (i.e. running into rooms she's not allowed in, messing up things she's not allowed to touch, making my job, whatever it is right then, much harder) it is MUCH more annoying than her ignoring or disregarding me because it feels such a slap in the face, like "oh i'm listening mama, i just couldn't care less! hehe!".
So i guess my question is how do you all deal with it. I'm thinking the 2 ways i can think of are to do as i did above, stay calm and not really engage with her silliness until i'm in a place to be able to enjoy it (i always have this niggling feeling i should enjoy the happy moments and not try to crush them just because MY day got a bit more complicated) or actively be involved with the silliness in such a way that i get her to willingly obey, still laughing.
I have noticed her dad also finds her frustrating in these moments and have heard him say "it's NOT funny lady!" but that makes her laugh even more...
HELP!?
