My kids have watched loads of movies lately! Thank god for Netflix. They like play doh and colouring and stuff, but they do naughty things like draw on the walls. They're more active really, they'd rather be shooting each other with nerf guns or jumping off the furniture. That's why we usually go out a lot.

My daughter is a bit too independent sometimes, and she's the bossiest 3 year old I've met! My son is back at school next week, so that should be easier. When it's just my 3 year old, she tends to behave better.

I'm going to get a reward chart I think!

Lisa, lol at your friend buying new clothes instead of doing the laundry. I might consider getting a cleaner when I go back to work. I'm lucky to be able to have a year off for maternity leave - yay for being English - but I'm a secondary school teacher, and with all the planning and marking I have to do, even working 3 days a week, I don't want to waste time cleaning My husband does shift work too, so one weeks two he's on lates, working 2pm-10pm, which means me having to collect the kids from school/nursery, make dinner, do baths and bedtime etc on my own.

Spunkychelsea, I have a cry about something every day! I very nearly cried this morning! I was up at 6 feeding Zoë, finally got her to sleep I'm her Moses basket, and then went to make coffee in peace. As if! Maya got up immediately,then Jack.
The car thing sounds annoying. I've got a Vauxhall Zafira, and luckily can fit all 3 car seats in the back. It does have fold up seats in the boot, but they're not suitable for child seats. We don't drive much though. Firstly, I want to save petrol money as it's so damn expensive, but we live in town and 2 mins walk from the seafront, and 5 mins walk from the train station. My husband works for the railway so we get free travel, and get the train a lot. The next town has a good soft play place, and a lovely park.

We live in a flat and don't have a garden, which is a shame. We're moving in a few months though to a 4 bedroom house with a garden - it's being built now. Well, renovated. It will mean living next to my MIL though lol. Although hopefully she can babysit!

I actually find having 3 is easier than when I had 2 in the beginning. Jack was 22 months old when Maya was born, and he was still in nappies, and his speech wasn't very good, and he was soooo jealous. He also used to have this awful habit of running off if we were in a café or somewhere. You couldn't entertain him by putting a movie on as he was too young. Now at least Jack and Maya can be entertained more easily, and they can have conversations, and both go off and use the toilet on their own. Plus you can bribe them!

The hardest thing I experienced was bedtime with a baby and a 4 yr old. I would go back and forth between rooms with them crying then me crying :> (my husband had classes at night). What I started doing was bathing them at the same time then doing stories together then feeding the baby while the older one laid in bed. I would pat the oldest one's back for a few minutes then sit in a rocking chair in the room and feed the baby so I was still close by for the older one. Now my oldest is 6 in 2 weeks and the baby is 15 months and they are sharing a room and do well at bedtime together. I think it just takes time to find a routine that fits and to reassure the older ones that they are still important.

I used to bath my two together (well, still do) and when Maya was about 3 months I'd put them to bed at the same time. Maya was in our room. When she was 10 months they shared a room, and still do.

Now with 3 I'm not sure how I'll do it. Maya keeps saying it's still morning as it's still light outside, so can be a pain to get to bed. She doesn't like Zoë still being up. I'm hoping in a couple of months Zoë will have more of a routine so I can sit and read a bedtime story to the older two, or just all three of them. I don't feel that organised yet!