June mummies '05 thread 11 - the one with the Zoo!

[katzg]

new thread for all

got excited because i have ordered my days out vouchers from tesco, £10 of clubcard vouchers = £40 of days out vouchers which can be used to gain entry to london zoo

im here again and want to say a huge congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well done bubbs

sorry i havent posted for a while i have been lurking but didnt really know what to say to everyone , i got a bit lost and caught up with other threads.

hope your all well
no more decorating been done
dd3 is doing great she is walking fantastic and talking justa as well . me and dp are going through a bad patch but nothing that we havent discussed before (kinda ongoing iykwim) , other dd's are great . im shattered and feeling a bit down recently but all is well

have read a bit to catch up but bubbs news is great

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Bubbs- Many congratulations! Hope it all goes really well for you!

Hi to everybody else!

aww thanks giddy thats the nicest anyone has been for a long time

im not up to going shop at the moment but if i sort myself out and face up to the world then ill be sure to take you up on that hun

thanks

Afternoon ladies

BUBBS - CONGRATULATIONS I'm so so pleased for you - and know just how precious it is - I was also never expecting to have any ...once and it's a miracle - second is beyond words. Well done you, and dh too!

Hello to everyone else

Trib - I do hope your week ended on a better note!

LOL at the understanding NO thing - dd is very definitely one to grin and just carry on defiantly! And Giddy - if you have a little bully then you are not alone - the other day dd decided that she didn't like the look of male tackle, and as ds got out of the bath she gave his family jewels an almighty thwak, ouch! and she regularly smacks him if he doesn't give her instantly that which he was playing with, but she has decided she wants NOW! poor ds he's such a gentle boy he doesn't know what's hit him - still should make him tough in readiness for the playground!!

Mrs W yes ds is so very excited about starting school - we already have a new bag, pencil case and coat and he's planned what sandwiches he will be taking with him when he starts - thankfully I've managed to disuade him from actually making them in readiness - but he would have done if left to himself ...and if he could reach the worksurface!!

Tea and MrsW - i forget that your DC1's are slightly older than my DD1 and that she will be old for her year, we've got another year before she starts school, but she would really like to go now because her bestfriend is starting school and she wants to go with her.

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Morning ladies

Giddy - te he he at our girls - the little male junies had better watch out at any future meetups! Glad to hear that DD1 had a good day yesterday - it's amazing how much brighter the world is when our kids are in a good mood

Katz - it's funny isn't it that a couple of months makes all the difference for schooling - I think your DD1 is only 4/5 months younger than my DS. He's actually starting earlier than he should because they've taken away spring intake when he should go, so he officially goes up in January, but the attached nursery take them full time and start to integrate the rising 5's the term before - so DS is starting September even though he'll only be 4yrs 3mths.

We've just had the most atrocious nappy rash for the last week and a half, and poor DD got thrush too until now I never realised babies could get it! Besides obtaining canestan, we went through all the usual treatments for the red raw bum - sudacream, bepathen, metanium (usually the wondercream!) but to no avail and then mum suggested germoline, and it's worked a treat - bonus side effect is it has a local anesthetic in it so it numbs the area too...just wanted to pass it on in case anyone else is suffering the effects of teething

tea - strange isn't it, the whole schooling thing, DD1 will be 4 in Oct so she will be very nearly 5 when she starts properly. can't believe you had nappy rash that even metanium wouldn't clear up!

tea - strange isn't it, the whole schooling thing, DD1 will be 4 in Oct so she will be very nearly 5 when she starts properly. can't believe you had nappy rash that even metanium wouldn't clear up!

Oh god, hv coming round in an hour. Have instructed dh to look cheerful (she thinks he is depressed too).

now I know this isn't going to be any help, trib, but your health visitor always makes me laugh.

just think - she may be able to let you into the secret of keeping food fresh in the fridge, or help you with which way up you should hold a book.

good luck, though. hope she isn't too useless.

I'll see what pearls of wisdom she has to offer lummox - not sure anything will beat the revelation that biscuits contain wheat!

hello all quick drop by to annouce the newfound mobility of little sfxette. at last some walking

my weekend starts at 4pm tomorrow maybe then i will have a chance to catch up hope you all ok
take care

Well done sfxette! A new chapter of horror opens up before you, sfx

I'm afraid my hv did not have any pearls of wisdom to offer this time, except to warn direfully that the longer I put off putting ds into nursery the worse it will be. I don't know if any Junies have experience of putting little ones directly into pre-school at sort of 3-ish? I know my SIL had no probs with my dniece at that age.

hi trib yes current problem with dd is stopping her going after the geese and the pigeons
its quite funny when she gets up and just does a war cry pumps her arms and off she goes padded bum wiggling.

anyway about spoilt children who dont go to nursery until they are 3, well if my niece and nephew are anything to go buy they dismissed the parents on day 2 without a backward glance, broke my sisters heart i remember drying her tears

trib - that's near enough the whole of France stuffed then. Almost everyone starts nursery here at between 2 and 2.5. At that point there is free state provision. It is very rare to send children to nursery any earlier - I haven't heard of anyone doing it and I haven't seen any private nurseries that take children younger than that. They either stay at home or have a childminder type arrangement.

ds is looked after by me and dh at the moment, both working part time, and will go straight to preschool when he is about 2.4. We're planning to start him mornings only, but the experience of some English friends of ours was that their little boy was crying to be allowed to stay after lunch after about 8 weeks, and we're hoping ds will be equally happy.

am not anti-nurseries for little ones, by the way, but it didn't seem right for us, and it happens to be the norm where we are living.

oh, and congrats to sfxette. ds has now been walking for over a week, but still massively prefers crawling.

ooh, and on that topic can I open up the contentious topic of baby reins? I think we are definitely going to need some - ds just makes straight for the road when we go out for a walk (the gutter seems to contain untold mysteries and wonders). does anyone have any recommendations? and is there any reason not to use them other than the way it looks? it doesn't impede walking development or anything, does it?

trib - that's near enough the whole of France stuffed then. Almost everyone starts nursery here at between 2 and 2.5. At that point there is free state provision. It is very rare to send children to nursery any earlier - I haven't heard of anyone doing it and I haven't seen any private nurseries that take children younger than that. They either stay at home or have a childminder type arrangement.

ds is looked after by me and dh at the moment, both working part time, and will go straight to preschool when he is about 2.4. We're planning to start him mornings only, but the experience of some English friends of ours was that their little boy was crying to be allowed to stay after lunch after about 8 weeks, and we're hoping ds will be equally happy.

am not anti-nurseries for little ones, by the way, but it didn't seem right for us, and it happens to be the norm where we are living.

oh, and congrats to sfxette. ds has now been walking for over a week, but still massively prefers crawling.

ooh, and on that topic can I open up the contentious topic of baby reins? I think we are definitely going to need some - ds just makes straight for the road when we go out for a walk (the gutter seems to contain untold mysteries and wonders). does anyone have any recommendations? and is there any reason not to use them other than the way it looks? it doesn't impede walking development or anything, does it?

doh - .

lummox - i have heard nothing about reins being bad, we've used them for both our ours, less so for DD1 she was far more of a scaredy cat but DD2 has thme on anytime shes out and walking. But then she has been walking for a long time, 8.5months when we started so now at 14months she is a pro! and very fast so reins are a must.

Afternoon! dh and I been away for a few days' short break visiting friends. It was fun, but exhausting as for 2 of the 4 nights ds refused to sleep. It's so hard visiting childless friends whose houses are just death traps, and who don't appear to know what door handles are for (if you turn before you close, then the door doesn't slam! ). Ah well. We bought reins at the weekend, Lummox. I haven't heard of them being a problem, but am prepared to be wrong since there seems to be a problem with everything and anything!!
Congrats on the walking sfx!
Muma - sounds pretty rough, hun, let us know if we can do anything x

hello all

i feel like a new woman been out to cut and colour my hair and get new glasses and a few other things pretty much just blowing the bonus work gave mewell nearly but it was a brave effort

i dont have anything against personal choices regarding nurseries its just annoying when someone tries to impose their views in a forceful manner (is there any other way)

rains - well i used to hate them before having children, these days i think they are ajolly good idea, must read up on opposing views, and probably ignore them

mumma - sorry you are having a rough time, have you thought about going back to study, i seem to remember back when you joined you wanted to do something like that, and you have recent success to motivate you
speaking of which i must enrol.
am also keen on training as a breastfeeding counsellor as voluntary work, giving something back and all that.

2happy - i know what you mean i remember a time before child when friends came to visit with toddlers and every move seemed to be life endangering -

hope you are all getting on OK
(big wave)

I would just like to share ds's breakfast this morning with you all.
He started with a nice bf, quite long for him (he's been cutting down a lot recently).
Then a fair-sized bowl of rice krispies. But when that finished, he started to cry, so I asked dh to get s little more - he brought out another entire bowl! No matter, ds polished it off just the same. Then he twined and twined until dh gave him some of his porridge, and ended up eating every alternate spoon of it.
Then he insisted on eating some of dh's pain au chocolat (we don't normally eat such cosmopolitan stuff, but we drove home past Newcastle yesterday so stopped at a big Tesco's).
5 course breakfast. Where does he put it??!

well thats impressive! did it go on all day?
mine just eats my porridge in the morning and mostly picks at hers or spits it out. she is also in love with junk food - oh does it look lard laden and not green? i will have it thank you
actually that was just today at a birthday party

so much for the organic home made mummy efforts, or daddys these days, it really gets to him