Mummy, what are you doing?

Life has never been the same, I have 2 lovely shadows to help me through the day.

Going to the toilet. 
The bathroom is an exciting place, if you are in there surely you must be doing something really cool.
"Mummy, what are you doing in there"
Be prepared for your toddler to take a high level of interest in your bowel movements.
"Can I see it Mum" 
..But you receive positive reinforcement that your toileting practices are on par.
"Good job going to the toilet"


Hanging out the washing.
Remember the lush pile of freshly washed clothes look very similar to a jumpy castle, the only reason a lot of freshly washed clothes would be sitting in a basket is for a toddler to run and jump in, of course!

If a crawling baby see's this action, she will try to assist in the removal of the toddler by carefully removing the clothes from the basket, licking them during the process to test if they are still clean.

See also Folding clothes:
Any clothing that made it through the jump and taste test move on the fold test, to avoid going back a step to the jumpy castle, enlist the toddler to help, it returns some lovely artistic style clothing origami.

Cooking
I love to have the toddler help me cook, and he loves to help.
"I think our pizza needs more pineapple"
Prepare for mess, and usually an odd combination of foods, mainly...  99%  of pizza's made by toddler is pineapple, it would be 100% but we ran out of pineapple.

Prepare for a mad dash to pick up a high allergy baby from eating the ingredients off the floor, the ingredients that did live on the pizza before the toddler decided he needed to carry it to show daddy. Comedic scene follows as toddler mourns the loss of his creation, then continues to pull all the ingredients back out of the cupboard/fridge to make another, while mummy is trying to comfort him, stop the creation of more mess while picking up the original mess and keeping the baby from eating it.

Then run to the shops to get more pineapple to repeat the last two steps.

Showering
Beware of the mass of toys that live in the shower, they are slippery when wet and leave Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shaped bruises on your butt when you fall onto them.

If you choose to have your shower soaps in the form of  pump bottle, you choose to have the majority of it used on the first wash, after all its pretty cool and the toddler just has to keep on pressing that pump.

There will be fights over toys in the shower, a baby slides along wet tiles when a toddler wants the toys she has. Baby laughs, then it turns into a very squishy game of bowl the baby. Its hard to explain to the toddler that its not such  great idea when the baby is laughing about it.

You can shower alone, if its your third shower for the day and you choose to do it sometime after midnight.

Eating
To toddlers, food looks better when it is on someone else's plate. the family has to sit as close as possible when eating, preferably on top of each other, so toddler can search through everyone's plates.

I love that my day is surrounded by my children, I do not mind that a 2 minute chore takes 2 hours, life goes by so fast, slowing down and involving the kids in every aspect that they want to be involved in is worth it.
One day they won't be so interested in my daily life, but I will always be interested in theirs.