June 2013 Commando crawlers vs Baby slugs

[SunnyL]

Hi all - the old thread was about to run out so I started a new one.

Little Miss was up to mischief last night. Thankfully it's DHs day off today so he took her into bed with him while I slept in the spare room. She is just so excitable when she wakes up at night. It can can 90 minutes to scrape her off the ceiling.

Oh sunbeam I'm so sorry to hear about your cat, but glad to hear he's making a good recovery. Is it because he's old or was it out of the blue? I love my cat, I'd be so upset if something happened to her.

Sorry to hear your cat has been poorly Sunbeam. (Can I can't imagine that would be cheap, this is really a hard time with the mat leave money run out for big costs)

so, DS didn't get his first choice school, we did get the second choice, which is a good school but very big. I'm sure DS will be fine there, my only worry is DD, I don't know what her little personality will be like and not sure if it'll be right for her, but on sibling place, that's where she'll go too... Still, better than some people round here who havent got any of their choices and have been sent to village schools 5 miles away. I'm so sad for them, how terrible to have to face that. if we've got one of those, I'd have been calling up, trying to withdraw my resignation and offering to go full time so we might have a chance at affording prep school!

Is this school thing an English thing or a London thing? I'm just not aware of ever hearing people talk about it up here in Scotland. We're in a small village with one school so I assume its something we'll never have to worry about.

On the work front. Management have been promising me that they were working on employing someone to help me. Apparently they had 2 people shortlisted for interview in May only 1 has pulled out and the other is wholly inappropriate for the role. Whoopee. Makes it a whole lot easier to write a job application for somewhere else while they are being dicks.

Sunny - we're outside the M25! It's boom year thing! Large parts of the country, 2009/10 was a baby boom and 2 years ago there was a warning that there was something like 20,000 too few places for this September in England, so they were really hoping lots of people went private! I think there are stricter rules in England about class sizes, so they are reluctant to take 31, or to plan on a class of 20 (which would allow 'give' for boom years) so there's not much wriggle room if one year has a lot of children in one town.

As we've found, our town doesn't have anywhere near enough school places, over the whole county they apparently do have enough places, just a lot of them are in village schools that aren't able to fill from that village, so people like my friend get shoved there.

Sunny - afaik (from reading Primary Education board for the past few years) it's different in Scotland, and all children in the area have a right to attend their catchment school, going to a different non-catchment school is trickier I think. In London, we have to pick (up to) 6 schools to apply to, but realistically there's likely to be only 1 or 2 that your child stands a reasonable chance of getting in to.

As an example, my borough had over 250 more rising-5s wanting to start school than they had reception places last year. They put extra classes in at a load of schools, permanently expanded some others, and opened a brand new primary school (an expansion of the one DD currently goes to). There's a legal limit of 30 per class in reception, yr 1 and yr 2, which complicates things as well.

It's really stressful!

And in other news, M has been awake since 8pm and is showing no signs of sleep, grr. Can anyone tell me where the batteries are?! My friend reckons it's because of the full moon lol

'scuse the language ladies but Fuuuuuuuck! She just climbed the bottom stair when I wasn't looking. DH had fixed the stair gate at the top of the stairs but the bottom one didn't fit. Guess who's job I was s to take it back to tesco and exchange it.

I'm glad we can shut our stairs off as I think we'd be in trouble too otherwise. Hopefully you're sorted now.

We had the HV check this week and all is fine; hitting all milestones etc. :-)

She won't sit down now though, it's either motoring round crawling or standing and cruising. It's quite tiring!

We have a all the signs of teething except bloody teeth at the moment too. Poor thing isn't sleeping too well. :-/ I really hope her teeth appear soon.

Yep, same here with the bionic crawling and cruising, Hungry. We finally bought some soft shoes yesterday. Tried some cruisers on first but they just looked too grown up and 'proper' on his wee feet! And he curled his toes so v hard to get them fitted! We've just gone for the soft ones for now.
How many teeth does your DD have? We are at 7 at the mo - thankfully they don't seem to have caused TOO much pain coming through.

Another super busy little lady here who enjoys practising the stairs, it certainly keeps us on out toes!!! We seem to have new teeth every day, she has 10 now and is using them far too much when feeding. On a positive note her sleeping seems to have massively improved and for the past week we have only had 1 wake up around 3 for a feed so I feel amazing. Hope you all have a lovely Easter weekend xx

Ah yes, DD got to the second step. Bit worrying - we didn't bother with a stair gate that the bottom of the stairs with DS as we could just keep the door to the hall shut, but DS keeps leaving it open and she makes a run (crawl?) for it!

She's been renamed "daddy's little honey badger" this weekend, she's just so determined and distructive! (She's got through 2 laptops and various things of DS's already)

Bloody hell, Mary, that is destructive. Thankfully we've no losses to date. I'm sure that'll change though.

And still only 2 bloody teeth. But lumps and bumps all over her gums, so I'm thinking that at some point we are going to be in hell when they all pop through at once!

I've not bought shoes yet as she's happy in socks for now. I'll see how that goes.

I knew she'd get mobile as I headed to the elephant stage of pregnancy. Badly timed I think!

Stairs???! Argh, lets hope that doesn't happen anytime soon round here, we only have a stairgate at the top of the stairs.

Just back from a week on the IOW which was lovely, if lacking in internet. Weather was amazing though. Now back to reality as I have to start working on this contract i've got. Scarily it involves going to Invnerness for 3 nights this week for meetings - first time away from E . Also slightly worried about if my brain still works, talk about in at the deep end.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter and have been ejoying the sun!

...and suddenly everyone disappeared...

cooee - still here!

My little bruiser has a cold, bless her. She's been very snotty, but still eating everything in the whole world ever. She's still barrelling around, taking out larger children and smashing everything that gets in her way. She pulled the lamp off the bedside table earlier, shouted for a second then carried on towards my makeup box and started throwing makeup about (never go for the no.7 stuff do they, it's straight to the chanel and Estee Lauder stuff...)

I'm debating introducting a little spice, anyone BLWing gone for non-plain foods? Thought I'd start very slowly. DS was purees and kept on very plain foods, and now at 4 still won't eat anything even the slightest bit spicy. I thought we might try with something like chorizo (after reading the thread on AIBU about giving an 11month old chorizo).

Still here too

Snot tastic also. DS is going for the "feed a cold" approach. But oh sooooooo much snot!! And the only way he tolerates his face being wiped is if I sing "the wipers on the bus go swish swish swish..." so there has been a lot of swishing today.

We've given him lentil dahl - no chilli added but cumin and ground coriander, garlic etc...and that was fine. I've not seen the thread about chorizo (AIBU threads scare me! ) but will have a little look...

We were ignoring you, Aloha Where did you go on the IOW? We've stayed in Sandown and Cowes before, I love it there and want to go back.

Mary we've given some spicy stuff, inc tikka massala - just wiped most of the sauce off the quorn but it was still pretty messy! I gave him loaded spoons of rice mixed with the sauce (helps the rice stick!). He likes garlic bread too, though it does make him stink :o

Rue we were a bit inland from Sandown. I really liked the IOW, felt like how the south of England migth have been before it all got so busy. Weather was great and the kids enjoyed the beach. Just had to be on high alert to stop E eating all the pebbles!

Now in Inverness for work which is going suprisingly well and my brain still works which is a bonus! Just have the slightly odd situation of giving the lady running this B&B bags of breastmilk morning and night to put in her freezer for me!!

I give E spicy food, but without chilli. I make curries, chilli things like that and put in all the spices, but usually only a fraction of the chilli or cayenne. Usually spoon fed though as I'm not sure how she could feed herself curry or chilli with much ease.

It is like going back in time by about 30 years :o I grew up in the south west by the sea, that's fairly similar but much busier in season. Can't beat it with kids though!

It is! I kind of liked it though, I think I'm a bit old fashioned at heart

OK, so DD can climb a full flight of stairs. Only had to be shown 3 steps then was off on her own.

She then climbed onto the John Lewis changing 'tool box' so she could rummage with the bookcase. We are in trouble now!

Hungry - oh my days, your life is going to get a lot more interesting!! time to start teaching the "turn around" to go back downstairs...

Yep I taught Lil to climb the 1 step up from the garden and next thing I knew she was doing the entire staircase . She was v upset tonight when she saw we'd fitted a stairgate at the bottom too .

Right so I'm told there is a plan afoot to hire someone to help me at work. Thank god for that because I'm going to fall apart with stress soon.

Mary, DH taught going up, so he can teach going down too! See what happens while I'm at work?! Can't leave them alone without them causing trouble. :-)

She even bloody stands to climb, not just crawling up. I think we've got a climber. Gulp.

Fx Sunny. When do you find out?

I'm 25 weeks' pregnant today...this is a much faster pregnancy!

M can climb stairs too. I've put a stairgate across the living room door :o

All this climbing talk is daunting. We don't have anything other than rolling back to front and a little bit of shuffling backwards. The stairgate has been propped up against the wall for the last 3 months! I'm in for a shock aren't I?