The One and Only TEA Room: Everyone Welcome (bring champagne and muffins please!)

[Jacksmama]

Wow, we're on our third thread!!!
Previous (second) incarnation of the tea room.

A warm welcome to everyone, whether you have one child, none, or ten. This is a tea-and-muffin or booze-and-sofasorcanapees sanctuary for all. But certain standards of behaviour continue to apply - anyone engaging in fisticuffs will be ejected by George Clooney, ably assisted by Mellors the Gardener.

Cheers all!

Heh, DD has just watched an Angelina Ballerina cartoon about the eponymous whiney mouse getting a baby sister, and feeling neglected by her parents (honestly, those mice haven't read ANY of the advice about how not to make the older sibling feel bad, and the grandparents were disgracefully insensitive ...) Of course it all ends happily with the parents explaining that they still love Angelina, and the little sister being very cute and back in favour. Nevertheless, DD has just told DH that she hopes she never gets a baby sister because then he and I might not love her so much. Absolutely not the message the story was supposed to be getting across, but suits me just fine. DH has told her this is an excellent reason for not wanting a baby sister (!) and we will do all we can to fulfil her wishes.

I am not at all impressed with Starbucks on the food front - they put olives in the tuna melt panini, the weirdos. I was somewhat placated when they refunded me the entire cost of my 'signature' hot chocolate because they'd run out of the syrup, and did me a normal one (which was vast).

I've made rocky road today. Please share.

Ds was drawing yesterday morning. He drew a happy small mouse. Then he drew a large 'daddy' mouse. Then there was a medium sized 'mummy' mouse, but she was sad becuase she didn't have a baby mouse (although a very small mouse did join them, not quite where that worked in the whole story...)

Mistle - This is magic champagne provided by Cmot and so it is whatever colour you want it to be!

DCMB - You do need to let us have SOME of teh rocky road if your goingto call it shareing. Just standing there huging it to yourself isn;t the same. Yes, I will have some, thank you. Now you can hug it a bit more. umm, delishious.

Re skates and 2 yr olds- it also helps if your child have HUGE feet. the smallest "proper" skates were size 8, we could JUST get boys feet in them width wise tho were rather too long, story of his life in shoes. he has size 9 wellies and ballet shoes, size 8 velcro strap plimsoles and 1 pair of made to measure leather ankle boots. Clarks cliam he is a 7.5 I. then admit they don't make an I fitting.Boot maker measured hm as a 7.5 K.

DCMB can I have a bit more please. please....please. I've been very virtus in RL today after the excesses of teh previous 2 days, today has been left over pizza for picnic lunch and jacket spud with stuff from teh cupboard/ veg box for dinner.

Hi Catita - really mexican? like living there at teh mo??

UniS - that must be really difficult. Ds is a 'G' which is fine - they make 'G's. However, we have to avoid quite a few of the continental shoes which are not wide enough. We also couldn't have the ones with the elastic with the toggle - they just wouldn't open enough to get his foot in! I can't imagine what it must be like for you...

DS is somewhere around an H-J fitting. Needless to say, nothing in Clarks fits him. Fortunatly we have found that Ricosta do laced boots that are wide and high enough to fit him. This does entail a trek to the nearest stockist though.

DS went to Rugby Tots yesterday - a whole group of 2-5 year olds pretending to score trys, do passes etc. It was very, very cute, and I wish he could go regularly - this was a taster thing at one of the schools we are considering - as he adored it.

Ds went to a birthday party at the end of sept last year (so nearly 3.5 then) - it was a Go-cart party. Absolutely amazing that a group of 3 - 4 yos can get to grips with how to 'drive' their go-carts and go round in a loop without too many crashes! Somehow they look so cute doing something that you really think that they should be probably 10years older to start...

This pink fizz is very nice - can I fill my glass up from this conveniently situated bottle?

ohhh- Ricosta boys shoes do look nice don;t they. AND there is a stockist in a town near my parents, maybe we shall pop in next time we are there. Can't be any more expensive than having them made for him. TBF the boot maker DOES make kids shoes witha sole half size to big and un stretched leather upper so you can go back for a stretch when their toes reach teh front and suddenly get another few months out of teh shoe. With some styles he will even sandal ize the shoes by removing toe box to give a bit more summer wear- didn;t help boy last summer as his feet grew width ways much faster than long but teh thought was nice.

I'm procastinating now, really ought to be doing other stuff. see you soon.

UniS - summer sandals shouldn't be a problem - you can get the ones with velcro fastenings front and back which would do required level of width... I got a cheap pair last summer for ds in Tesco when we realised that when we put ds in the car in his pjs at 5.30am to start journey, we didn't put in his shoes... he had to wear wellies when out that day until we found a supermarket to do our shopping for the week's holiday.

Amber - ds is built like a rugby player, and tackles like a rugby player, and used to push his buggy like a rugby player. However, in my heart, I do hope that he turns into a cricket player rather than a rugby player. Neither dh or I are interested in football, so I do hope that he doesn't get into that in a big way!

Alas MT, sandals are a problem - the velcro just isn't long enough to go over. We spent an hour in a shoe shop last summer as they tried to prove that they were adjustable enough.

Am hoping that your DS has stopped growing now Amber ! One of my nephews is wearing size 13 ballet shoes now - he looks far too solid for dance

Woah, giganto-feet, amber! My little brother has feet at least that size - when we both lived with my parents he would often leave his trainers lying around, it was like stumbling across the QEII lying on the living room floor. Twice. He is 6'6" though, so would fall over if he had small feet. Meanwhile I am 5'4" - guess when my mum gave up smoking!

DD thinks she's not going to like the rocky road, as she no longer likes raisins. I think she is very much mistaken.

With ds playing in two rugby teams, two tennis teams and having only just given up two football teams, our shoe rack closely resembles the sports footwear department of the local megastore... and my washing machine is trying to join a union who'll help it defend itself against unfair workloads .

It only seem like yesterday that ds was small and active.

Oh dear, I seem to have found a tub of a very well known brand of belgian chocolate ice cream. Anyone for a small bowlful?

Am surprised, in the best possible way, at the mention of boys big and small doing ballet. Good for them.

Thank you, amber, for the offer of choclate ice cream. Don't mind if I do or, in other words, yum yum.

CMot - we've been fairly near the end of the velcro before - but I don't remember having that problem with the Tesco sandals (of course, I do normally get ds's feet measured and the shoes/sandals fitted, but this was an emergency and we didn't need another pair of shoes/sandals of the same size as the ones we'd left at home. I'm not quite sure where they got to. If I can find them, would someone like them to try?

Sorry, MJ has decided, in no uncertain terms, that 'ballet is for girls' !!!! . He goes to French instead. Apparently French is for boys - although some girls go there to...

This particular nephew is 6'2" at the moment, and does ballet, tap, jazz and drama. He is a total luvvie, but fantastic with DS - unlike the rest of his cousins who are too cool/sulky to play with him

Yep- I have a ballet boy. He a bit on and off with it , some weeks he wants to go, some he doesn't, but he is not quite 3 so its like that with most things. One of the pink children did try telling him on his 2nd week that " boys can't do ballet" she was quickly put right by several mums.
My little bro is also well over 6 foot with huge feet,I have wide feet, so I'm kind of resigned to years of having problems finding shoes. We have been handed down some tesco sandals for teh coming summer, on of our friends have a son with wide feet a year older than uniboy.

Amber- a bowl of ice cream would be lovley. mind if I add some extra choc sause. Your shoe rack I would imagaine is smelly, sypathy, do you keep the shoes out side?

Think my washing machine will join ambers in going on strike- its on its 3rd load of teh day- we only got home at 3pm. I need to go and remove all the frozen waterproof coats and trews from teh washing line before I go to bed.

If I can find our Tesco size 8 (small!) sandals, does anyone want them to try? Ds is not yet 4 and in 11's now...

Of course, there is always that very old joke...

You know what they say about men with big feet?

They have big shoes....!!!

Hola,
< comes in, finally>
Sorry about the delay -there's a six hour difference from the Uk. Basically it's naptime here when the UK's kids have gone to bed. I would have stayed around, but DS woke up and wanted attention. He wants0 32to 2033012102102 help 00.me0 type. As you can see.
So, only the one DS (13 months old) and causing havoc quite merrily.
I love, tea,, toast, cake, and rolls, wine, tequila, whisky and beer (not all together, unless strictly necesary.
I married a Mexican bloke (some one has too!) eight years ago and have been here ever since. I'm finding a bit tought going as a new mum on my own over here. Everything is so family orientated (eg big extended family) and with my family thousands of miles away and DH's on the other side of this country, we feel a bit left out.
Hence the interest in the tea room... if you'll have me on a 6 hour delay!

Hola!!

We've not had a tequilla night, but I feel one coming on soon....

{grin]

Whoops, that should have been - had shift on too soon!

We are already international, and Jacksmama who is in Vancouver keeps the late night booze flowing.

Tequila slammers are a new venture for the tea room

If you don't need them MT, that would be fab - if they don't fit DS, I'll pass them onwards.