January 2008: I'm four and 'they're all mine!'

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Sorry Simposn. Just couldn't resist.

LaT - what's up?? It's funny you say that about M. She was so big as a baby but as I don't see any other babies the same age as her I've lost track a bit. Guess she's still a biggie - know she tends to wear above her age for clothes anyway. I do occasionally weigh her at home and she has dropped from the 98th% to between the 75th-91st.
As she's getting more active I'm thinking it will drop further but then she eats like a horse!

Madmouse - any further success? 1 step forward, 3 back with potty training I've read somewhere!

Simps - you have so much going on, and yet your kids are doing so well, so give yourself a pat on the back right now and a glass of wine :)

No more wees...I've bought Nathan a Cars toilet seat to go on our toilet and he's much more comfy on that than on the little potty chair so . He's also obsessed with flushing the toilet (which he can do by kneeling up) so I try to use that as a bribe (you wee you flush) but he will say he has weed just so he gets to flush...

DH has been reading on here and elsewhere.

Oh no, what does that mean? Is everything ok?

Everything is pretty much as it was, thanks.

Well if it helps him see things from your POV...

But maybe PM us on FB if it's private - you can send a group message.

Did he go behind your back and read it??

PMing on here or FB is a good idea

LaT - hope you're ok.

MM - H hates the flush! We've been working on him flushing it together and he can just about do it now on his own, but he'd rather not thanks very much!
Sitting on that actual scary toilet thing is going to be a long way off!

Wanted to let you know about the scooter situation. Gave T the 2 wheeler one I had in the loft, cue massive palaver every time i wanted him to use it.
Not knowing there was the option of a bigger 3-wheeler he even said why don't they just make a bigger one of those? As H has totally adopted the micro now and won't let anyone else near it.
So I got a maxi from ebay, collected it on Tues, Tues evening T was zooming round the block :)
Very cute to see them both on their scooters for our evening walk.

H did try the line that it was "for H" but we quickly put a stop to that!!

T has got some really huge bug bites from school, ow. Need to remember some spray before he goes this morning. Looks like he has my genes when it comes to bugs loving him - DH hardly ever gets bitten - not fair!

I found out today that when M starts school in sept she is going to be in a class of 90!!!!

There will be 3 teachers and 3 TAs but surely it's going to be very noisy!!!

Not sure how I feel about it tbh.....

I've never heard of anything like that before Simpson. Why is it?

Not sure really. I just got chatting to the current reception teacher today at the jubilee party.

She seems to think that there are loads of 4 and 5 yr old needing school places in the area.

Cannot help but think its a bad thing sadly. Surely it would be easy for a child to get lost amongst 89 other kids.

I think it would depend very much on the child. I can think of children who would be fine with it, but I know Danny, for instance, wouldn't take the noise. I just had to take him out of nursery because he was so unhappy. Having been there with him a couple of times recently, I would say it was the noise that he didn't like.

What will happen as they move up the school?

They will have 3 classes for that particular year (from yr1) although I cannot think where they would put them

J would not take it either as he hates noise and complains that his classroom is too noisy as it is...with only 25 kids in it!!

90!! That would force me to take Nathan out again! No way he could maintain himself in that environment. His speech would suffer and he would not be able to crawl safely. I think it's atrocious. You can't compensate for class sizes with extra teachers...

Exactly!!! I am worried about it tbh and M has no problems with speech but may have problems negotiating her way round the classroom.

A friend whose DD is in J's class has a DS in the after noon nursery (so will be in reception with M although she does not know him as she is in the morning session) found out last week that her son is autistic. I bumped into her today at the CDC when M had OT.

She is really worried about it.

I cannot take M out as there is nowhere else local and also J is really happy there and it is only for a year (then it will be three separate classes as apposed to the usual two from yr1) but I hate the fact that M's reception year is an "experiment" iyswim.

Lol at M not having problems with speech

Maybe at being quiet when she is supposed to!!!!

Is it more that there will be 3 classes of 30, but they are following the EYFS guidelines about being able to access anything at anytime, so there are 3 rooms but all kids are allowed to mingle?
Anyway I think that's crap but I'm more of an old-fashioned kind of teacher.
In the new eyfs guidelines I believe there aren't even meant to be enough seats for everyone as everyone will never be sat down at the same time.
All equipment is accessible at all times.
= chaos IMO.

There have got be H&S issues with what you're describing anyway.

H is not quite himself, v whingey, urgh.
He's acquired a piece of paper with his school logo on - an old letter we don't need anymore. He wants to go to the postbox and post it.
I have 3 letters with stamps ready to go but he will not give up the school letter.
He's already tried to post some prescriptions this morning.

Wonder how the RM will feel about a random piece of paper?

Bit fed up with the weather - and DH is out and about at lots of things all weekend which makes me feel stuck at home, not his fault but still.

Still, at least he's taken T this afternoon so I have the tv remote - French tennis for now :)

Jks - not sure how it will work I guess I will find out more at the induction meeting on 4th July.

All good here except ex H causing me trouble again ((sigh)) I really have had enough tbh.

J heard me arguing with him on the phone and got v upset afterwards as he twigged I was talking to his dad ((sigh))

I just wish the man would bugger off, he kept talking about how it breaks his heart not to talk to the kids and remembering a conversation he had with M ( she must have been 18mths) and she was saying to him " I really like you daddy" and he is worried that they will forget him.

But in the same sentence he is asking me what he needs to do to change things (oh yes and he was drunk when he called).

Had a fab day today, we had nothing planned and a friend texted me to say they were going to a jubilee party and did I want to go???

She has a DS who gets on ok ish with DS and her DD is best friends with M.

So the kids had a great time charging around, eating burgers etc....

Hey Simpson - we had a good day, although the most fun to be had at the 'family fun day' we went to was a lollipop on the way out, as S decided not to shotu all day.

She also got a prize for eating three fruits and vegetables every day . She hates them but has done it. I don't know if anyone remembers but she is a fussy mare. I've adopted a very hands off strategy for a year or so which has been good for us all. She's been painfuly consitpated twice recently, though, so I decided I had to do something. Remarkably, it's been ok. She has to eat three big chunks of vegetably thing a day. Extra stars for more than three or trying something new. Tried a peach this week . Didn't chew it but did swallow some . Three extra stars and she gets the new barbie laptop thing she wants (already bought from ebay ). I don't count sauces or veg in things and she has only challenged me on pizza sauce so far (it doesn't count).

I'm very reluctant to do star charts and things as she plays it so easily and tuns it into a bind, but this one has worked this week.

She says she doesn't need another one though ...

DS is getting pretty bad at trying new foods and eating his 5 a day although he was pleased today as he managed 6!!!

M will eat pretty much anything and I have trouble getting her to stop eating tbh.

J is at my mother's house tonight although my mother is not there but my youngest brother is. He is all consumingly obsessed with the football atm and has decided he is a chelsea supporter (much to my dad's disgust!!) although my dad has offered to take him next weekend to look at the chelsea ground and go into the shop and have a look etc. J's face was

M been a handful (nothing new!!) constantly fighting with her brother, shouting, dragging the poor cats round the house and bossing us all around. It is sooo much easier when she is in nursery tbh as this tires her out but her nursery is closed next week (building work).

How is Sabela getting on at school?? Does she go all day??

Yes. She's all day and she loves it. She gets very tired and we have a long walk home which is usually hellish. I'm even considering trying a buggy board again. She hated the last one and I sold it but the walk is so impossible I am tempted.

On the plus side, she and D have started to play together. I got some ironing doe this morning. Sabela is going through a phase of trying to do naughty things. So far it's fairly minor, like throwing all the books in Danny's bed or stealing the end of a bottle of washing up liquid to play bubbles in the bathroom sink.

As for shouting and bossing, I have been very heavy handed this week and it has got better. It'll get worse again once she's tired. I'm mafraid I've resorted to blackmail today: I told her if she shouts on the way homeI'll tell her teacher on her. She didn't like that idea very much at all. It probably won't work though.

What's the plan to contain M next week? Exercise her like a labrador would be mine.

Cute about J.

Lol at the telling teacher.

I use that one quite a bit and threaten to tell my mother that she is being naughty (which she hates!!) I have even pretended to ring her teacher in the evening and say she is misbehaving!!!

Dreading the tiredness thing and school, is still remember it with j.

Got a couple of things planned, am meeting a few friends tomorrow at a play area (they have kids M's age), meeting my brother for lunch and on Friday our local library is having a fancy dress party.

I do dread the walk home. i've been given lots of ideas on here of ways to make it fun. The problem is she is simply too tired to do it and wants to scream so will find a way to.

Plans sound nice. I am making carrot cake for my friend's birthday.