Am I allowed to unwrap ds's present from neighbour (which I strongly suspect is MONSTER tube of smarties), bung in something lentilly, and rewrap tonight when he is in bed?

[FrannyandZooey]

Or not?

I wouldn't give them to him. The horrid feeling one has as dc sicks up sweet brown stuff, with or without coloured bits, that one has allowed is mortifying.
I am quite puritanical as you know but have, in the past, succumbed to "Go on, let them, it's Christmas/Easter/Make Your Child Sick Day". Even limited quantities, to a child unused to large doses of shite, can have nasty effects.

Are the neighbours going to ask him if he liked them?

yes 12 weeks yesterday, -oh no actually it is today, hurrah

justabout, I know, I think I will have the NHS one AS WELL so I will be having EXTRA scans tut tut

Tutter no they don't tell you here and I would not choose to know, but it is a girl. Night waking is so hard, love and respect to you xx

TooT he hasn't been sick before, which is good

I don't think they will ask, no, we will send a card round in a couple of days

What's wrong with letting him have 2 or 3 at a time and putting the rest away for the following day? Ds's have 3 sweets (literally) after tea each day - usually buttons or jelly babies. I'd be very chuffed if someone had bought the next 6 month's supply of after tea treats!

Somebody gave a box of them to dd2 recently. We rattled them about for a bit and then, lo and behold, they disappeared. Can't actually remember what I did with them.

Oh, and sweets were offered to ds2's class recently when they visited playgroup and ds2 didn't take the smarties. He announced, in a loud whisper, "They are Nestle, Mummy!"
He says one day he is going to go to Nestle and bite their arms and kick their butts.

You can play lots of games with smarties in the garden.

That is how they get used up so quickly.

Much better than eating them.

I have friends who work at Nestle

please do not send your son round to bite them they are very nice

if you open them, can I have all the orange ones please

LOLOL dp has just bumped into dad neighbour in the park and told him I am pg

dad neighbour said "oh my word well we had better send some more chocolate around later" [gives up]

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no no au contraire cod there are quite a few common types on here who are telling me to let him eat it

God we have chocolate for breakfast on Christmas day! Doesn't everyone?

oh lololol I knew that this would be you

of course

Oy Justa, can't believe you're trying to blame my flat on your lewdness! It was a perfectly respectable place til. you two got all frisky on the sofa.

I usually go with the 'oh, it's just this once, let them have it' stance at Christmas, but as dd2 is the not ill child and therefore gorging on chocolate coins and screeching round the house on toddler roller skates and her sister's school pinafore shouting 'i am a teacher on a bus!', i'd now say hide them, hide all the sugar!

Is there an antidote? Is there a way to stop her? My head hurts.

Boco's flat has that music playng that you hear in 70s porn films

it sets off a Pavlovian reaction in anyone who sets foot inside

I have never seen a 70s porn film Franny

please recommend some of your favourites

Hmm, I suppose that's true. And everyone who comes in suddenly says 'hey, is it hot in here?' and then strips off all their clothes.

But apart from that it's perfectly respectable.

I love after eight mints. But all those little wrappers are annoying, when there are only a couple of mints left but all the wrappers have been put back, so you're rifling like a giant in a record shop.

I can mkae great 70s porn music, with my mouth

sort of "wa-a-uh-uh-wa-a-uh-uh"

We'll know who you are justa because you'll be very respectable and polite, and then make shocking gags about oral sex. And we'll know it has to be you.

Boco, you know what you are known for.,

lol at giant in a record shop

I think you put them back so it is less obvious how many you have eaten