I am only coming round to it now hupa because I have read they don't need a drum kit at home, all they need for practicing is drumsticks according to the wisdom of MN so I can live with that. I couldn't have a drumkit in the house, not even in the cellar.

I will have a look for a teacher and quiz the teacher thoroughly on all that first though. Drum kits are just too inconvenient if you move around a bit, just like pianos

Frosch - I have to say that my ds was/is much more laid back than dd. She sounds just like your dd at that age - I remember the screaming when she was on her tummy only too well. Luckily for me she was my first, so ds was a really pleasant surprise - I think he spent the first 4 months just sleeping. I don´t envy you at all having the laid back one first - it must have been a real shock to the system.

Zzzen - I think unless I lived in a detatched house with a sound proofed cellar or attic there would be no way I would let either of my two anywhere near a drum kit. You very brave even considering it.

Sorry ZZZen, I'm losing the plot; I thought it was you who had the eight-month old. Is it Ernest then? Brain like a sieve. Am soooo tired and have just drunk one of those Red Bull thingies and will be very disappointed if it doesn't 'work'!

The weather back home is awful, especially in Cumbria. I have family in Barrow but I think they're not affected. Have just seen that a policeman has been swept away, which is unbelievable. How much water does that?!

Did anyone watch all the flooding in UK on TV? It looks really bad, especially up in the North-West, my home town was totally cut off from everything and they were rescueing people by helicopter in the neighbouring town.

Just remembered Ernest was holidaying in the north for 2 weeks wasn't she? Hope she stayed dry.

LOL

I write so many of them, it's an utter disgrace. You just had me floored with scince because I was still thinking schools etc and couldn't make the leap to a new subject , I was just thinking what the heck kind of insitution is this then?

Forgot to check AGAIN, I know. Time not tiem.

Aww, 6 months is such a cute age even if it is exhausting. Enjoy it, I always remember a friend telling me that (she had a 7 and 9 year old at the tiem) and I thought she was mad because it all seemed so easy with her 2, they dressed themselves and occupied themselves! Still, she was right they are so cute and cuddly at 6 months!

Drumming would be great fro my dd, found a few music schools offering it in Hannover at around 85 Euro a month - ds had a better offer for his trumpet lessons, under 40 a month but with 4 other dc.

LOL Frosch at my "little one". She is so tall, it worries me at times. She is nearly my height and everytime I see anyone, they always comment on it: "hasn't she grown!" - and I wonder where it will end.

She's alright. We get on great and laugh a lot. She's very happy these days. She has a fairly energetic way of doing things which she did not get from me. I don't know why but if she hugs me, she sort of smashes her head into mine or the other day she came in the kitchen with her dishes, saying chirpily, "here's my plate mum!" SMASH and breaks it in half as she puts it down. That kind of thing.

On another thread I have been reading that drumming is good for letting out pent up emotion and I am thinking (she always wanted to learn it), maybe drumming is the right thing for her after all, not that she has ever been one for keeping emotions bottled up. Dh will have a total fit though

Have to make a note to check out that website and youtube!

Feel as if my eyes are falling out, just sat for hours at the computer seraching for stupid Makler, looking for updates on I don't know how many immo website. Today sent off a few answers to get a viewing of 3 room flats in desperation. We'll see.

My home town in UK is totally flooded an dcut off, just seen news on Sky.com, they've been having loads of rain, Scotland too. Hannover was lovely today, had my washing outside drying.

DD is doing well, thanks ZZZen. She was exactly six months on Wednesday. Has just started solids, likes sitting up but screams furiously if she ends up on her tummy. Does not sleep AT ALL during the day, which drives me nuts. Definitely more demanding than DS. Are boys generally more easy-going than girls? I remember my DS snoozing, chilling out and entertaining himself whilst I cooked and cleaned and ironed. Now I can't do anything and my house is nowhere near the Deutsch standard it should be...

How is your little one doing? And didn't admylin have trouble with her little one? I hope her situation's improving...