DS2, 3.5, is a Lion

[NotQuiteCockney]

He's been a lion since Sunday at least. His name is Tigs.

He does still talk, but less than before. He growls and demands raw meat. He smells me a lot.

I've been indulging this, explaining to people his new name, etc etc, but am getting tired of it. Do I carry on indulging him?

at your ds2 running all that way. I just did a rough measurement on Google Earth and it's just over 2 miles.

I've been thinking about walking ds to school instead of taking the bus, it's 1.55 miles. But I'm putting it off because ds walks so slowly that we would have to allow nearly an hour to do it (it takes me just under 30 mins leisurely walking), and he whinges non-stop.

Yes, I was quite . He kept growling all the way home, which sounded like something wrong with his lungs.

We had spent all day on the bikes, DS1 rode out to City Airport and back, and on the way home, DS2 had his mad running fit.

Does your DS ride a scooter or wooden bike? DS2 has no problem doing that sort of distance, and he's pretty fast these days.

He has a wooden bike, and he can go quite a long way on it, but there's nowhere to store it at school. If I get myself organised with a bike lock I might do that. He's still not very quick though as he keeps stopping to look at things or ask a question, unless we are with another child in which case he races along.

I used to avoid going long distances with the wooden bike as he would usually decide that he wanted to walk instead so I would end up carrying the damn thing.

The bike is less work for him, though. Are you sure there's no storage room at school? Nowhere to put buggies etc?

I was a horse for several years when I was a child.My Mum was very patient

They have a very small space under the stairs for buggies and scooters, but bikes have to be locked to the bike rack outside. I might buy him one of those 3-wheeled scooters and try him on that.

Can I hijack your thread please and ask you about buying a bike for ds for his birthday? I'm thinking of getting an Islabike, do you have any experience of them?

I know people with their bikes, they're very good, I'm told.

Oh arse, not only is DS2 sniffing everyone, two other children at the co-op have turned into animals - one is a wolf and one is a dog.

I tried to convince the nursery manager to not tell the parents whose fault this was ...

I feel lucky that we only have an outbreak of scarlet fever at ds's school, and not a wild animal psychosis outbreak.

And today he apparently didn't talk at all in nursery, as he was so in character.

He's been talking this evening, at least. But not generally to anyone other than me or DS1.