Chatting and Stepping! Stepping and Chatting! (and the odd rant!)

[carrotsandcelery]

Come inside for a and a and maybe even a if the mood takes you.

A thread for chatter and nonsense

Sorry Scout. I didn't mean to patronise. Tone is really hard to convey on here and sometimes when you are struggling the obvious doesn't occur.

Ds has taste tested the fruity oaty bites and eaten 3, which I take it means he approves.

Oh no, I didn't find you patronizing carrots. I was just saying I tried the bedtime set up for naptime -- a cartoon and some stories.

He's so desperate.

Poor wee soul! It is a nightmare when they are at that inbetween stage. The worst bit is, as Cats said, they then drop off at 5pm or something grim like that and muck up teatime and bedtime big time.

I really wish the school wouldn't assume everyone has a printer. Ds has homework to do on the computer and print out. I think he will have to do it and email it to dh at work and hope he can print it at work for him. We can't be the only family with no printer in the village.

He really doesn't know what to do with himself. It's heart breaking to watch. I've been able to stay calm and smiley though sometimes I just want to say "Well, if you napped we wouldn't have this problem!" I'll do early bedtime tonight knowing he'll probably fight a bit with overtiredness so he'll be asleep at a good time.

You end up with your whole life revolving around their sleep pattern. My dniece is virtually the same age as ds. My dsil and I found it nearly impossible to see each other at one point as both their routines went haywire at the same time. We were scared to get into our cars at the wrong time of day or there was no hope of getting them into bed at night as they would have slept all the way home.

I need to keep him going for 40 minutes then I'm going to start the bedtime process.

I have just discovered that the lid of my slow cooker is not oven proof - well the knob on the lid is/was not oven proof. It is now a decorative black blob

It took me a few seconds to figure out what had happened. I was staring at the lid trying to remember how to open casserole dishes

Oh dear, carrots!

It is not a big problem. I can still lever the lid up with a knife or similar. It was £9 so I really should have known better.

I am waiting for an apple crumble to finish baking. Yum!

Eeek carrots my slow cooker says none of it can go in the oven! Recipe looks & sounds lovely, will defo try it.

scout have you tried a different nap time? Or trying on alternate days? Or on the sofa with something boring on the TV or radio?

Would he lie in his bed & listen to an audiobook?

Apologies if you've tried all these before!!

Audio books worked well with ds but he was older. We got them from the library so they didn't cost us anything apart from the one we lost.

MrScout decided to come home. He's due within the half-an-hour. Is it sad that I was hoping he'd stay at his parents'?

There are way too many school aged children out and about at this time of night on a school night for my liking. [old fogey emoticon]

It depends why you were hoping that Scout. If it was so you could watch what you wanted on tv or go to bed early then it is entirely understandable. If it was so you could sneak your muscled 20 something man in once TS was asleep then... well that would be understandable too really

I wonder about that too Scout. Our previous neighbours 3 yo would still be out playing at 10pm. I have to admit I was very judgey pants about that one.

It was more so I could take a shower, eat crap in front of even crappier television and have the whole bed to myself without getting wapped in the head (MrScout's 6'5" and sometimes when he rolls over I get an arm or elbow where I don't want it).

There's a girl around here, who's DS1 is the six/eight weeks younger than Toddler. Last spring she told me out she and her DP took their 15 month old out to the park at 7:15 p.m. and ended up having so much fun they didn't leave until 9:30 p.m. This was the same girl who told me that she thought about letting her 15 month old out to play (unsupervised) on the square with her friend's 3 year old then decided not to since her DC "don't have much road sense yet." Double .

Sadly these attitudes are rampant around here. One of many reasons why we're planning on HE Toddler in the early years.

in a bit of a panicy rush on the way to the bath, but saw this link to lego maths games on fb and thought it might be of interest? (I haven't actually looked at it yet)

Thanks bessie. That looks really useful. Her Pinterest looks really good too and worth a nose around.

I have just ordered some old comic books from ebay. I am going to attempt to decopatch a bedside table a friend gave us for ds. I have done lots of decopatch projects and had been thinking of doing an old Ikea coffee table with have in the kitchen that is really past its best. We have 2 bedside tables so if it comes our rotten he will still have a normal one to use.

I'm off to bed now so I might pop in tomorrow.

Night all.

I need to go to bed as I am looking as work stuff and messing around on t'internet.

Night everyone!

MrScout free night AND it's the new-to-us Toddler group today AND a joint Seniors & Rainbows party meeting this evening. Does mean, though, that we're having a shortened Seniors meeting YAY! and we'll be home not much past Toddler's bedtime.

Am also going to try an earlier nap for Toddler. He usually likes to eat lunch first, though, so might "tank him up" on a snack and then aim for 11-11:30. He could really use a nap today so we can go to new-to-us Toddler group and Seniors tonight. Without a nap Seniors is going to be painful.

Good luck scout.
I am not well i have spent half the night lying on the bathroom floor (it is slate so not the comfiest) half fainted with a fever and very regular episodes of having to sit oon the loo sorry if that is tmi.
I feel much better now but havent dared to eat anything or even drink. I will make sure i sip water every now and again. This seems to happen to me once or twice a year and passes as quick as it arrives. Fx. Dh is working from home.
He is freaking out as he has had a linked in email from his dad. He hasnt had contact with his dad since dd was 4 months old. She is now 11 so you can imagine the surprise and confusion.
What a day already!

Morning all
Carrots - I am sorry you are feeling so unwell. I hope you feel much better soon.
I still didn't sleep brilliantly last night, but at least didn't oversleep and then have to wake up from such a heavy sleep and feel crap a bit groggy!

Today should be relatively straightforward (I hope). No hoards of excited Rainbows or long estranged relatives to deal with (as far as I know). I've just got 1 dyslexic 11 year old (in SATS week) and a GCSE student the week before her chemistry exam. Last week they both seemed to be taking things in their stride so here's hoping!!

That took some doing!

carrots, how are you feeling now?

arti, what do they use SATS for?

I'm having some lunch then going to make sure I have everything together to go out. I told Toddler that tired boys can't go to the active play group but since he's gone quiet we'll go. Now to decide whether to let him sleep until 1:30 and try to feed him before we go or let him sleep a few extra minutes and take a sandwich and let him eat that during snack time. It's a group that, from what I could see of last week, doesn't really lend itself to dropping in/going late.