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Now they are two! (new thread for the April 2004 lot)

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hewlettsdaughter · 26/05/2006 20:11

So - dolbear, you said you were starting to get broody? Not me - I took my pram and a load of baby stuff to a local charity shop the other day (did get a bit sad when I handed over the pram though - the woman in the shop didn't help when she said "think of all those walks you did with that!"). Hope you are all doing ok.

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MrsDoolittle · 11/10/2006 08:51

I haven't been on Mumsnet for ages - back at work and all that.
However, I would like to meet up with you fennel. I don't know any of the details of the Chritsmas meetup, I haven't looked. But not being pregnant this year for the second time in 4 years, I'd like to try. I went to a small meet up in London with Oldiemum last time.

MrsDoolittle · 11/10/2006 09:40

I can't find LJ's birth announcement, anyone seen it?

Congratulations LucyJones! Thinking of you

fennel · 11/10/2006 09:45

I'm also hazy on the details Mrs D as I wasn't planning to go til I got offered a lift. maybe it's 18th Nov somewhere in a bar. with some/most? people going for a meal beforehand.

I haven't seen a birth announcement from Lucyjones but she's posted on a thread today or yesterday so she must be around.

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hewlettsdaughter · 11/10/2006 19:57

Don't think there is an announcement MrsD - I just spotted that LJ started a thread on the newborn stage!

How's work going?

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fennel · 13/10/2006 10:22

have signed in for the big xmas meal. Mrs D, and others, do you want to meet up?

MrsDoolittle · 13/10/2006 19:24

Yeah, I was thinking Fennel I was only going to go if you were going.
How shall we arrange it? How will you be going to London? What about you HD? Lunavix is only down the road from me, but I guess she is busy at the mo.

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hewlettsdaughter · 13/10/2006 19:43

I'm not a big group type of person really (not averse to meeting up with people from this thread though!)

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fennel · 13/10/2006 20:16

Have tried to CAT you MrsD but I only have occasional internet access lately so might not reply very quickly.

HD I'm not wild at the thought of a 100+ people meet-up, would prefer a smaller one too. am imagining hundreds of very popular already-friends mumsnetters and a few of the rest of us on the edges!

but hey, it's already planned and it could be ok, will hope for the best.....

MrsDoolittle · 13/10/2006 21:11

fennel- it's reassuring to know you feel like I do. I'll lookout for your CAT

fennel · 16/10/2006 10:28

Has my CAT arrived yet?

MrsDoolittle · 16/10/2006 14:49

Yes it has, have you got my reply?

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hewlettsdaughter · 02/11/2006 22:35

Hello - where is everybody? or are we all waiting for each other to post?

Anyone going to a firework display? Or having fireworks at home? We're going to a display at ds' beaver scout hut tomorrow.

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fennel · 03/11/2006 10:08

hi, HD

Have just dropped dd3 off at her first day at preschool. my little baby walking off to "school" with her big sisters, rucksack on back, she was so proud. Til she tripped on the pavement and gashed her forehead open rather dramatically and screamed for half an hour.

but still, can hardly believe it, my baby at "school" (across the playground from her sisters who are at real school)

Chuffed · 04/11/2006 21:02

hugs Fennel, I did my first mum free session at playcentre on Friday. I don't think dd even noticed I was gone.

I have to tell you guys about dd's super comment on Thurs. She is just really starting to do imaginative play, set up her soft toy across from her at her table, put him on the booster so he could see and instead of making him a cup of tea, said will be right back, her you go here's your glass of wine

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hewlettsdaughter · 04/11/2006 21:40

Chuffed

Poor dd3 falling over on the way Fennel - did she have a good time at preschool though?

I am supposed to be here on the web looking for a single bed for dd but can't find what I want

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Chuffed · 05/11/2006 09:56

bed making is our goal over the christmas break, dh has a compulsory 2wks off work his is closing down so we have a huge list of diy tasks to complete. At the mo dd is in a mattress lifted off the floor by about an inch.

fennel · 06/11/2006 09:37

bed-making is such a kiwi approach to needing something! rather than bed-buying.

dd3 loved pre-school, she's gone again today. but she does have her cousin in the same room, and 2 sisters across the playground, so it's not too intimidating for her.

and it's utter bliss for me and DP having just one nursery/school run between us, hurrah! til now we've done one of us on school run and one on nursery run mostly, so this is really liberating.

tracyk · 06/11/2006 11:31

Hi Girls
Just been lurking of late - not much to report on ds front.
He is a really well behaved and happy little boy - IF he is well rested - so when he misses his nap he can be a little sh**e.
What age is dd3 then Fennel that she is going to pre school? I thought they had to be 3 for that?
I'm dreading having to decide whether to go state or private education for ds.

fennel · 06/11/2006 12:09

hi tracyk

dd3 is just 2 and a half. I don't know why they take them from this age, it seems young, but they are well equipped for them and it's where she'd be going next year or the year after for school anyway. We have to pay, while the over 3s get 5 sessions a week free. But it's half the price of her old nursery.

would like to pretend she's gone young as she's so very Gifted and Talented . but don't think I can get away with that...

tracyk · 06/11/2006 12:20

Is it different to nursery then?

I think ds nursery just has a seperate room for pre schoolers. Is that because it isn't part of a private primary school?

Also - do they only cater for term times rather than the 51 weeks that nurseries do?

fennel · 06/11/2006 12:28

It's different to a private or councile run nursery in that it's in a school building, council run but mainly aimed at the year of "pre-school" before they start reception aged 4. They're called nursery classes or early years classes as well as "pre-school". Most of them admit children from 3 or 3.5 but some, like ours, admit them from 2.5. I really don't know why, maybe it's cost-effective, we are in a village and maybe it makes it viable to have a few more children attending.

it's only school terms and school times, 9-3.30. But my other two are in school anyway so it works for us to have all 3 doing those hours. It wouldn't be worth it if she was the oldest or only one, given that we both work. and there is a before and after school club they can go to as well.

tracyk · 06/11/2006 12:36

Oh right - I must look into our local primary school and see if they do the same. Though it is only a little building - doesn't look as if it would be big enough for all the extra pre-school kids!

fennel · 06/11/2006 12:40

suddenly remembered, they have my mobile number as emergency contact if she's not coping, and my mobile is buried somewhere totally out of my hearing downstairs....

am really not a very anxious mother must go and check it's not full of desperate messages to collect her.

MrsDoolittle · 06/11/2006 13:32

Childcare has been creating so many headaches for us of late. Following redundancies at my work this year my manager felt she couldn't give me part-time, so I have returned to work full-time. As I went back to work in the beginning of September we had the children organised for nursery full-time.
At the end of the month they gave us 10 days notice that they wanted another £140 in the next months fees!!
Add to that dh's work has moved to central London, so now I have lost his help in the morning getting the sproglets to nursery. They were a mile from him at work! Now the nursery is completely out of my way, a 24 mile round trip!
So we are going to have to move them next year when ds is a year (February). With the extra strain caused by dh going into London now I'm wondering how much longer I am going to be able to keep working full-time.
Add to that, this is the first year dh and I wanted to spend Christmas at home. My family have been completely selfish claiming that would be depriving the rest of the family of sharing in the children Christmas. Dh and I desperately needed the break but we have capitulated and I can't help feeling disappointed.
Sometimes it's hard isn't it?

Chuffed - I ordered a pair of bunks online for dd. When they arrived it became obvious that they were full-size single beds (should have looked), how she has a huge set of bunk beds dominating her room. She loves it though, but I can't help wishing it was smaller.

fennel · 07/11/2006 08:16

that sounds a grim commute, Mrs D.

we have sturdy bunks too but mine often prefer to sleep on the floor anyway.