July chat

[mellow2]

For when the other thread runs out today!

hello all, nice weekend - we dodged the rain and went to Horton Childrens Farm - out near Chessington on Sunday. Not as nice as Godstone but fab outdoor play area, food rubbish so defintiely one for a sunny day picnic one weekend.

Hello all

Glad everyone had a good weekend.

Well done to minipads for potty success.

Glad wedding went well Sfx despite journey up there.

Thomas Day out was brill, would definitely recommend it for any mini Thomas fans, DS had a blast & even had a chat with the Fat Controller

My mum is staying with me this week, I'm hoping she can entertain DS whilst I have a mass clear out and start doing some packing for the pending move.

Morning all.

Sounds like everyone had a lovely weekend.

sfx - glad you all had a fab time at the wedding. I quite like men in skirt kilt.

paddle - well done to mini-paddle on potty training.

ros - our DS is the same, not quite ready for potty training as yet. He tells me his friends at nursery go to toilet/potty for their wee/poo and even pretend how they do it.

SJ - we went to Thomas day out about a year ago. Must do it again!

QC - that sounds lovely. Did you go to the Pensford dance thingy in the end?

foxie - sounds like you have popular kids.

slng - I love Kiraku, v child friendly, too.

bunyan - did you manage to get some sleep?

Sushi household is slowly going back to normal after the departure of our beloved cat last week. We went to see the Wiggles yesterday and although DS was a bit overwhelmed at first he had a fab time.

Good morning!

Isn't it wet out!

I saw this: www.lyric.co.uk/pl348.html I can't go, but maybe some of you might be interested. It's FREE.

BTW Sushi - did you go to that riverside restaurant in Bray in the end?

Oh yes, Slng, we did. V lovely restaurant and everyone enjoyed it. Thanks!

No I didn;t go - forgot all about it! Or is it next weekend???

Anyone esle fancy going to the John Hegley thing on 12th? DS would love it just for the sand! It must be next Sat morning.

QC - I think the dance party was last Saturday. No, don't think we are going to JH thingy in Hammersmith as our friend is arriving from Japan on Friday and we are off to Inverness on Sun. Might go to the country fair thingy in Old Deer park on Sat, though. Is anyone going?

9 days to Latitude where are the tickets

paddle do know what makes you very tired?
about the wellies, keeping fingers crossed it will be flip flop weather

put a couple of pics on FB

what rubbish weather good thing I can't be bothered going out today

Sushi - glad you are feeling a wee bit better [hugs]

Slng - thanks for the lik, but we have Spanish in the morning and DDs birthday party in the arvo that day

yes my children are popular!!!

...actually its no so much being popular as having 29 classmates, most of whom seem to have summer brithdays

Poor DS2 really suffering - all his molars are coming through at once - Ouch!!!!

what the country fair - didn;t know it was on...

this

sushi that looks great must make plans. glad you feel like things are getting back to normal, but it does leave a hole somehow

slng Hegley thing looks good but will probably wait to see him at Latitude

weird toddler thing with dd yesterday
I had just got up to the flat
with armload of stuff from the car while dd was taking dd out of carseat.
I reached the ground floor and just saw them just as the left door was closing, dh manage to throw me the car keys but then dd started screaming and got very distressed.

• apparently she thought she had made me disappear by pressing the floor button

I could hear her distressed crying and she would not settle until I reached and cuddled her

that is dh taking dd out of car and lift door closing

ouch foxcub

sfx, poor dd. Similar thing with ds today, had to collapse the pushchair to get on the bus, took ds and stood him just on the bus by the doors but he got really upset, I think he thought I was going to leave him

DS threw a wobbly when we stopped to pick my mum up on the way to Horton farm yesterday. Cried and wouldn;t get out - I think he thought we were going to stay rather than go to the farm (pronounced "fshlarm") depsite me reassurin ghim that we were going.

Toddlers are all as mad as a box of frogs.

My DS said 'I hate you' to me yesterday.

aw don't be sad Sushi - you know they don;t understand hate at that age - he means "cross".

Meant o ask - wihtout wanting to be disrespectful of your old cat - would you think of getting a new one. CM has the most divine kitten now, really makes me want one.

oh Sushi kids do that, dd sometimes says she likes daddy best and sometimes the other way around, all of this usually after one of us tells her off

at least when they are teens and say that you can shout back well sort of

anyway - I'm sure my social worker would say that this is a good sign and they are getting cross with you becasue yo uare setting boundaries which is an all round "good thing" (apparently . But then she thinks my DS is special needs so we don;t pay much attention to her do we...

I know, QC. He didn't mean it really. We were chasing a ball and I got it before DS (a bit selfish of me) and he got a bit cross (bad loser). Things he learns at nursery these days...[sighs]

Kittens are so cute, aren't they? Dunno, haven't thought about it really. Our other cat is a bully so maybe not a good idea.

two kittens? they can gang up on him and safety in numbers...

KC is this special needs thing a new label?

no its an old label for all adopted children - most sw's don;t apply it liberally though as it tends to get new parents backs up. Btter used in advance so you know that you could have problmes.

Standard phrase "all adopted children have special needs" absolutely true - they will require at some point in their life an axtra layer of parenting that non-adopted children won't. That could be health, behaviour, speech or just helping your 10 year old make sense of the fact that his birth mother "didn't want him".

Calling my child special needs when (at the moment) he has issues so minor (still speech delayed) as to be no different to the norm is a tad irritating.