Hello all! Have also been a bit otherwise engaged for the last little while but have been trying to catch up when possible, and keep up with all the goings-on!
Amber - hope heart is OK.
Catita - RBoy also has a weird crown thing, barbers/hairdressers always say he's got a double crown, then they say oh it's not really a double crown, it's just... funny. Anyway, upshot is that with a normal cut his hair also sticks up all over the place, but we really didn't like the number 1 cut look on him - it's a very clear social statement here, usually! - so we go for a normal short cut but left longer round the crown so it's long enough to lie flat (or heavy enough, with the weight of it). Ideally. Doesn't always work like that.
How lovely to have a mini meet-up!
Was at our school fair last week (where RBoy goes to nursery school, is part of our local primary) and went to friend's house afterwards who has an only DD in reception. Just thought I'd mention her report in the light of some of the ridiculous pre-conceptions and prejudices about onlies, as friend showed it to me, glowing with pride! - According to this report, her DD has absolutely fantastic social skills, is extremely sensitive and responsive to the needs of others, wonderful at sharing and encouraging others to share too, generally helpful and sociable and socially confident and very well-integrated with her peers, and just a really nice child to have in the class, etc etc etc.
Anyway, I know we all know that the blinkered ideas some folk have about onlies (and some teachers, alarmingly, if I remember something Serpent posted a while back rightly) are bunkum, but I thought it was nice to see that stereotype being turned quite so comprehensively on its head.
Dance, anyone? Was whizzing round in the dodgems with RBoy a couple of weeks ago and came on - oh JOY!!!!! Oh, and he had his first drive of a go-kart, all by himself - and he was REALLY GOOD!!!! 