Haha! How is the house coming along?
Golden how are you doing? You've started on delivery now haven't you?
Ok folks what would you do?
There have been some, erm, teething problems with the new childminder. She is sweet but a bit on the dim side I think. You know how a lot of girls who work in nurseries are? (no offence juney my dear, you are most definitely NOT included in that sweeping generalisation!). She put ds2 in a booster with the seatbelt. Ds2 being 2 years old and under 13 kg. She had a legal seat on the way but it had not yet arrived (on the way! Why on the way? She has known their start date for months and months!). So that wasn't a great start. That goodness ds1 told me as she didn't mention not having a seat at all. Claimed she thought it was ok 
. Honestly if we had had other options I'd have pulled them all out but even though I am pretty sure I could have got ds2 into a nursery I would still ahve needed a CM to pick up the others form school and one other in the village is full and the other doesn't work past 5pm so that leaves us with the one we have.
Anyway. Ds2 now in proper seat.
Kids are happy, seem busy, lots of craft type stuff. But very nursery led ie all indoors. I assume nurseries she has worked at are typical ones with little outdoor space all age groups have to take a turn in so not much time outdoors. No evidence yet of going to groups.
Old childminder went to loads of groups and lots of walks. They would go play out on the field after school so big ones got exercise too. They would go for walks down the cycle paths and pick up pine cones and stuff. Ds2 and the other 2 year old she had like looking at poo and identifying the animal it came from 
. That is more what I want for my child :(
I'm concerned about the lack of physical activity and the lack of groups and social contact but I don't know how to go about broaching the subject. I don't want to be that parent. Especially when we've already had the carseat thing.
I wasn't going to bother sending ds2 to nursery as the CM offers the 15 hours funding but I wonder if I should now to have a couple of days of something else. I don't want to use the local preschool due to previous issues with it (telling us ds1 would have to wear a nappy when he had a medical problem and then we were unhappy with it when we tried dd there and we pulled her out) but I don't think she can do pick ups from anywhere else. I suppose we could do 2 full days in another nursery and pay the extra which wouldn't be all that much less than the CM costs. But then I don't know what we'd do in holidays.
Argh!
It is all a fricking mess.
Juney can I just sack her and have you come look after my kids?