..how the heck do you do it? How do you keep them ammused allllllllllllllllllll day???

This is gonna sound mental because obviously 6 months ago I only had Thomas too but how quickly you forget.

Thomas has gone to my mams for a couple of nights "so I can get things organised for his birthday and christmas etc" and I have an absolute ton to do. Hannah is 'normally' so easy to amuse, spends most the day rolling around with her toys and giggling at her brother. Well Thomas isn't here and omg she is a nightmare! He only went yesterday lunch time and after her nap she must've realised he wasn't here and she literally screamed and whinged non stop till I put her to bed. She has woken in a good mood today but I cannot leave her sight, as soon as I move a metre away she goes nuts and it's 8.30am and she is obviously bored already. I know she adores her big brother but I never actually realised how much and how much he keeps her occupied and ammused!

I can see it's gonna be a looooooong day today and I'm not gonna get half my jobs done at this rate

Come back Thomas!!!!!!

xx

You can borrow Aimee and Lily mate!!

Lily decided to wake up at 7.45 pm and squealed until 3.30 am. I'm sure she will keep Hannah amused xx

Aww I will have them hun! Stick em in a taxi!

Honestly though - once Lily is a month or so older you will understand what I mean. They don't so much play together yet but are company for each other if I have to leave the room to get something/pee/clean etc.

I have twice as much to do with the kids but I seem to get 10x as much done in the house too and still have a little BANDA time and Laura chat time

xx

Right thats it, im having another after reading this post!
That does make a lot of sense though. Bless her missing her big bro!

lol Terri i'm with you what a reason to have more kids... they can look after each other

You are making having a 2nd sound very appealing!

Ha Ha - I thought the rest of the post would be "...who wants to borrow another?!"

Not sure if any use: http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/development/letsplay/

I'd posted t'other day about being stuck for ideas with me and a house-bound bean it's not the weather for anything! xx

Lol Grace - bet ya didn't expect me to be moaning that I had one less

Seriously ladies - get another one - two is defo better than one. It's not so much a case of finding things to do with her it's the fact that I need to get stuff done round the house as well. It's coming back to me now how hard work it was when it was just me and Thomas. I was his sole source of company, ammusement and interest. Now I have the two of them I can pop Hannah in her jumperoo/bumbo/highchair/floor and Thomas will spend ages bouncing her up and down, bring her toys and just generally running around making her giggle. Thet constantly have each others attention so need mine less - freeing me up to get 'stuff' done.

I remember dreading the amount of 'work' having two under two would be but although it's double nappies, double feeds, double washing etc etc I get far more time to do these things because they have each other. We play together in the mornings and a lot of the time I find myself just sat watching them interacting. The first 3-4 months IS blummin hard work but after that two babies is defo the way to go

xx

hahaha we whine and moan about it on here thats what we do! elijah isnt too bad but we are now on to day 12 of being stuck in the house and i am feeling a little mentally depraved! i find it takes til 5pm to get the housework done, then its time to make tea and all the piles of our and elijah's dishes i just did are dirty again....then its bathtime so more laundry and somehow i wake up with exactly the same amount to do as i did yesterday and the day before aaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh