Fab Feb 2009: things that go bump and "mummy, mummy, MUMMY!!!" in the middle of the night

[dinkystinky]

New halloween inspired thread (in honour of this time of year) to talk about our little jekyll & hydes [hgrin]

Is anyone going to be taking their little ones trick or treating this year? We'll be at MIL's for Halloween and she's already told me she has both Danny and DS1 costumes -so it appears that decision has been made for us

SR It was a big deal because Luke was in the buggy when I had to take him out to get J in there.
Maybe he was tired, maybe it's me, I'm not really in the mood to deal with his messing about when I'm in the middle of an hours round trip just to do the school run.
I'm just pissed off and had enough.

mos OMG. I'd hardly say you come across as intimidating..................that one time we met! lol
What a joke, though, how can they ban a parent from the nursery.
Pleased the other investigation has been sorted.
Not long to go now though, hang on in there.

Morning all. Have the grandparents on both sides visiting this weekend so making the most of free kiddie distractors to get some MNing on. Lovely to see you on MOS - you're doing soooo well with the fundraising! Glad that ridiculous investigation has finished but am shocked at what's going on with the nursery. Sounds a whole different world over there.

SM - everyone has days when their kids push their buttons and they find things hard. Remember the awful time MsLucy was having with her eldest when she was pregnant with Stan - and now he is an absolute delight. So, it is age, hormones and probably tiredness in J's case. I know DS1's (and Danny's) behaviour is so much worse when tired. And I found DS1 started being naughty at home because he was so fed up of being good at nursery

and don't forget (on the subject of naughty boys who drive us insane) they are in training to be MEN!

dinky yes, fundraising going very well and trying to concentrate on that and not the other nonsense. Found out earlier that the evil woman who started all this is away for 3 months from the end of this month so that will be lovely her not being here for my last month. I can't believe she keeps turning up at the gym (having never been previously in the past 3 years) and I'm sure she is deliberately trying to provoke me into saying something (lots of holes in my tongue from all the biting!) Does make me laugh, for someone who is intimidated, why would she keep turning up where she knows I am?

Right, onto more important matters, any news of a meet up in the summer, with or without kids?

yeah, SM, my oldest was a horror aged 3/4 - I remember being stopped in the street by a woman who suggested I took him to a child psychologist! He was as nice as pie to DH and people at school/nursery, just vile to me.
Now he loves me and thinks I'm great (oh to be so deluded).

re: tantrums. Stanley's were worst just before Xmas. He had a massive spurt in his speech around his 2nd birthday and this made the real screaming fits less common. What sort of talker is your little one? Angus (my older one) talked later than Stanley so I think we had the worst tantrums with him a bit later on - I remember being on a train with him and half the carriage emptying as people recoiled from his screeching.

They are all little shits at times - it is not your fault and no one thinks it is (apart from you). Cut yourself a bit of slack - we are all our own harshest critics. I think EVERYTHING is my fault; it's the flip side of being a control freak and wanting to be on top of the situation all the time.

Thanks mslucy
Luke is a great talker. So much better than Jacob was at his age.
He just wants everything his way all of the time.
It's exhausting.
Jacob is very stubborn, like his mother!

mslucy... A has been sent to a child psyche by his SALT due to the massive hissy fit he threw in there one day He gave himself a nosebleed and almost concussed himself throwing himself around the place and did a very good impersonation of someone being tortured by the Spanish inquisition!

Of course he was an absolute angel for the psyche and interacted with her, played with her, showed off how clever he is and was generally a perfect little 2 year old

Little sod

Love that story about A and the psych - Danny would be EXACTLY the same

Had grandparents down all weekend so not much of a chance to get on. Nice to see you on MsLucy - hope all going well as family of 5!

SM - all these Feb born babies have very strong personalities obviously. I keep telling myself it will stand them in good stead for later life.

So, meet up in the summer. Who is up for it? I'm working so can only really do evening meet ups without nippers (but hopefully with much booze) or weekend meet ups with small ones.

Hey.
I'm up for summer meet-up. An evening one with drinks and no dc's would be lovely, but will depend on our finances at that time.
I am quite happy to travel for a weekend/weekday with the kids.

Jacob has just been running around the living room yelling "batty-boy"
I expected all these kind of terms or whatever to come, but not at 3 years of age.
He's also been yelling at me to "speak English"
Last week he called me "a fucking idiot"
Not sure whether or not to bother bringing it up with his teacher?

Definitely bring it up with his teacher SM. Kids are like sponges and soak up whatever goes on around them. If he's getting this from older kids at school, the school should be made aware and take steps.

I don't think they do mix with older kids though. He's only there for 2.5hrs a day and as far as I'm aware, they keep to just the nursery class and nursery garden.........I will check tomorrow though

SM at J. Like dinky says, they do pick up things very quickly and if its not from you then it must be school so definitely have a word. I have to confess that DH and I have previous for swearing but realised we had to stop when DD started cussing at us

Meet up sounds fab. I really enjoyed the evening one last time up near Victoria but also happy to go anywhere else and loved the Coram Fields one with kids. Whatever suits x

mos Yes, I have been guilty of saying the f word every now and again, so when he say ffs, that's from me.
But batty-boy?????? I don't think I have ever said that in my whole entire life.
I will mention it to his teacher later.

I lost you off my active convos

We can't have that now, can we oooggs

Had a bit of a drama today.
Walking Jacob to school this afternoon and a little jack Russell pup started following us, was jumping around, playing with the boys, chasing them, they were all having lots of fun. He came out of nowhere and kept with us for quite a while.
I wasn't sure what to do so called the local police station, they weren't very helpful so I popped into the shop and got a collar and lead and kept the dog with us so he wouldn't run off again or get hurt.
jacob thinks we are keeping him and named him Harold! When we got to the school he told all his friends that this was his dog Harold . I was telling him that this dog was not ours and I was taking him home in a minute.
Anyway, I walked back down to local shop and put a found ad in the window, was then planning on knocking on some doors but a car pulled up and said he was their's that they'd had some workers round who'd left the gate open.
Dog seemed happy to see them, so handed him over.
Now have to collect J from school and explain that Harold has gone home!
Harold. Bit of a random name. lol

Hiya Oooggs

SM - how bizarre re the dog and that very old man name J gave him. Hope J was ok with Harold gonig home.

Hello all....

SM hope J is ok about Harold going home. It's so hard to explain stuff like that to them at that age isn't it? dd was devastated when we re homed some of the kittens my adopted stray had, she couldn't understand why 8 cats was too many!

Sorry you're having trouble with J swearing, we've been exceptionally lucky that despite hearing far too much swearing from us the kids don't seem inclined to copy us. What does 'batty-boy' mean btw... never heard the expression before?

ooogs.... I'm insulted, really I am Glad you found us again.

Day from hell here... had ds1 at the hospital for blood test sand my car which has been acting up all week started flashing warning lights at me 45 mins from home so i had to ring the AA (who were lovely) and the AA man had to escort me back home to my mechanic (who was also lovely but of course the car behaves perfectly for him so other than recommending fuel cleaner to see if that sorts it he couldn't do much). I was gone for most of the day and when I got home dd's friends was here as her mother had a funeral to go to so the girls have pulled out all the art stuff and destroyed the kitchen. There's glitter everywhere and my hoover is broken [gack]

J was ok with Harold goinmg home. He asked where he was when we collected him from school so we took them to the pet shop to look at the rabbits and all about harold was forgotten.
SR, batty-boy is slang imsult for a gay person.
Sorry to hear about your car and your kitchen!

daytime sleeps have completely gone anyone else?

Yeah, mostly oooggs Luke will have the odd nap, but doesn't like too!

Naps are on the way out here too thankfully... he's finally going down before 10pm every night!

Both my older two are in bed reading themselves to sleep [proud] I know I should stop them and make them go to sleep but I'm just so pleased that they've developed such an enthusiasm for reading I don't have the heart to

I think it's ok SR. I stand by that mine have to go to bed, they don't necessarily have to go to sleep, but they have to be in bed. Both mine take a small toy to bed, Jacob a teddy and ben 10 figure, and Luke 2 teddies and a ben 10 figure. We normally hear them talking for about half an hour after they've gone in, but I'm happy that they know it's bedtime and understand they need to be in bed.
Saying that, Luke is in a phase where he will get up and we find him asleep on the floor but at least he stays in his room

ds1 went through a phase of that too... we found him asleep on the stairs a couple of times and ended up having to put the stair gate back up! I've always had a similar rule about bedtimes... as long as they're in bed and not making too much noise I always tend to let them get on with it... I just worry about the reading as I used to read all night as a child. Once my parents forced my light off I used to sit on the head of my bed and read by the street light outside my window... often til 5/6am Not helpful on school nights. I can see dd being the same, ds1 is great for knowing when he's tired and needs to sleep but she's always had trouble shutting down when tired.

Wow! I like to read in bed, but no matter how good the book is I do struggle to keep my eyes open!

We're sitting here watching Toy Story 3, it's at the special moment where they are sitting heading towards the furnace and are all holding hands. Makes me feel very special.
I am going to have to go and do something else now though as I can't handle watching Andy give them away, makes me cry every time

Summerrain - the things the boys were most delighted to get back from being out of storage were all their old story books. It was so sweet - while we were unpacking we opened up a box of their books and they spent an hour going through them all and "reading" then Danny currently demands 6 stories before I can wrestle him into his cot - and DS1 demands as many as he can get away with (his stories are alot longer) - so suspect once they get reading themselves licked they'll be like your kids. We've got DS1 some early reader star wars story books and he spent alot of time while we were on holiday reading the stories to Danny in the back of the car. It was lovely!