POD recently became the proud owner of a playhouse activity centre – a belated gift for her Christmas Day birthday. She adores it and can often be heard shouting “this is my house” before disappearing inside with a collection of dollies.
Sharing the playhouse with another toddler was always going to be interesting. POD learnt not to stand behind the door when it’s occupied or sit on the slide when someone’s coming down it.
As an adult if POD welcomes you into the house, her rules are that you must:
- Sit down immediately
- Pretend to eat plastic asparagus from a plate
- Wash your hands in a wooden kitchen
- Lie down for a sleep
- Have a blanket laid on you
- Have your back slapped
- Close your eyes
- Listen to a rendition of Baa Baa Black Sheep and Baa Baa Pink Sheep combined
- Have a “bellyolly” wand waved at you in an attempt to turn you into a frog
- Not move however much your spine hurts
When you’re permitted to leave the house you must go via the steps. Not the slide. Your thighs will guarantee you get stuck half way down. Your toddler will laugh at you. Utterly humiliating. This from someone who got her dress caught in an escalator yesterday. In Central London. In rush hour.
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Hilarious… little girls seem to be so organised! Well, that’s my experience of my daughter compared with her twin brother.
She might have a tendancy to be a little bit bossy too but thank you 🙂
Oh I remember my son when he first got his playhouse. The agony of sitting inside it for hours on end! They are great toys though. Popping over from PoCoLo.
So I have that joy to come, sitting on wood for hours! I’ll look forward to that immensely 🙂
Asparagus???! She has very decadent taste 😀
Well done on the escalator, I caught my skirt in the school door as they shut and locked it behind me and had to bang on it to get the Teacher to come back and open it. Fortunately I was able to secretly swoosh my skirt out of the way and enquire as to exactly what time Sports Day would be…
I was privileged to get the asparagus, it’s usually an onion! Sounds like you were lucky with the school door and managed minimum embarrassment. I got rescued thankfully otherwise everyone in Marble Arch would have seen my pants!
Oh no! You got stuck in an escalator?? What did you do?
Love that she thinks a sleepytime back pat is a slap. Or is it a hefty pat she needs to get off to sleep? 😉
Really embarrassing!!! Maxi dress got caught near the bottom and started sucking me down. A shocker. Got rescued by a stranger thankfully before I caused an accident! POD’s hilarious with her slapping, makes me wonder what they do at nursery!!
hahaha!! Playhouses are great for little people not so much for us adults…hehehe
Bless her, she loves it 🙂
omg dress in escalator!! that is scary!! i bet your little pod loves the playhouse though, i keep thinking of getting one for my lot
Not something I’d like to repeat any time soon! You should definitely get a playhouse, POD is loving hers 🙂
Too funny!
We have similarly random rules in the boys den. Sometimes I have to remind myself who the parent is.
They are hilarious aren’t they. I am being dictated to by a toddler!!!
I love the rules that our little big people set for us. Sounds like someone is having a lot of fun. Would be very interested in reading blog about dress being caught in escalator!!!!
She’s hilarious with her house rules! Loving the house though. Not sure about the escalator post although it would be highly amusing I’m sure.
Brilliant! This little miss already has good hand hygiene…
Hmm I was thinking of wearing a maxi dress to Britmums. Might reconsider now – eek!
No washing hands before dinner though, we’ll have to teach her that one! I’d been on several escalators that day before this incident, so relieved to be rescued!
You younger Dove girls do lead exciting lives – great to see that POD is still enjoying her house and to hear that you were saved from being eaten by an escalator!
Flattery will get you everywhere! POD is loving her house, she was sitting in it reading earlier! Thankful for being saved from the escalator 🙂
Oh, that’s brilliant, and baa baa pink sheep – love it! We also have a playhouse back in Edinburgh – the boys loved it, but didn’t come up with quite so many rules… Maybe it’s a girl thing 🙂 And I’m very sorry, but your maxi dress incident made me laugh! I always had a fear of that when I lived in London 🙂 Glad a helpful stranger came to your rescue!
It’s an interesting nursery rhyme – I guess that’s what comes of pre-school trying to be politically correct! I’m hoping the rules will lapse as time goes on! The escalator incident really wasn’t funny at the time but is an amusing story 🙂
Oh I love the rules and what a sophisticated lady having plastic asparagus! I might make up some rules for my house along similar lines…. 😉 x
I think I was lucky I didn’t get the onion! It’s not a bad idea is it? Perhaps we should have some house rules 🙂
Sounds like a great honor! xx
I think you’re right – it’s rare to be allowed in 🙂
I think I would have be mortified on that escalator! Well coped that lady. I am loving PODs house rules – brilliant!! Thank you for linking to PoCoLo x
It was shocking at the time but highly amusing afterwards, apart from my poor dress. POD is just loving her playhouse 🙂
Love her rules, they seem very reasonable!
Thank you – I’m sure you’re right 🙂
Hilarious post, love POD’s rules.
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Laura x x x
Thanks Laura – she likes to have rules 🙂