November 2012 - The exciting all new all singing all dancing fred

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1983613-November-2012-What-is-going-on-with-these-babies

Well, for break today I had a packet of Worcester sauce flavour crisps. I felt very happy between 9am and 11am knowing I would get to eat them. Then I felt happy between 11:00 and 11:05 while I was eating them. Then I felt happy pretty much all day knowing they were in my tummy.

Crisps and a pink scarf. That's wot done it.

It took you 5 minutes to eat crisps?!

Do you eat slowly?! They'd be snaffled in 30 seconds here!

I also give p a fruit break during main. She likes a wee palate cleanser I think.

pr. Drink your glass (and a mouthful of his) then pour fresh glasses. In that time the wee one will be snoozing and you can have peace. And you get to be a bit more tiddly.

A wee moment from today I think I can carefully share and made me think of you all . . .

Girl comes in very, very upset. Done something which made her mum very, very upset. At one point in the discussion she tearfully gasped "I just want her to know how much I love her but I am so scared that she won't love me back anymore."

I explained that she would have to work a damned site harder than that to stop her mum from loving her and that I suspected at that very minute her mum would say the very same thing to me.

I had to stop talking because I was filling up. I have become a sap!! It was a fantastic outcome in the end. Hugs in the carpark.

And re grapegate I do always half them and occasionally peel them. Don't know why actually.

Worcester sauce? Here we get salted, beef, vinegar but without the salty twang, and sometimes, if we're lucky, roast chicken. But... 15 years ago when I landed in Paris salted was the only choice. France is making progress. Slowly.

Both DD1 and DH back. She was flicking through youtube and a cbeebies video in her favourites had been hacked. Judge away, DD1 has 10min of youtube a night. But this episode of ITNG was highjacked with a very bloody scene of nastiness. I feel a blog post coming on.

I take each individual crisp out of the packet and examine both sides of the crisp. I like to preempt the flavour!

pass you sound likea rocking teacher

PR no judging here, R is loving the winter olympics at the moment and enjoys pauses briefly in front of Nina and The Neurons and Something Special

Mmmmm Worcester sauce goodness!!!! Made in a factory that handles dairy but worth the occasional risk!

Pidj oh aye we totally do that but these were full salt grown up bad boys so he can only have a couple so I wouldn't have got much shovelled in. Thankfully he was distracted by a board book!

Jonas is transfixed by the ice skating and ski / snowboard cross. I reckon the ski jump might give the wee bugger ideas though....

Thank you. It made me feel better though as it did remind me that the vast, vast majority of parents are wonderful. I was reminded of a fairly similar incident many years ago where I spent 6 hours with a girl trying to persuade her to tell her dad something. Eventually I was allowed to call him and he drove 200 miles to get to her. He walked in and scooped her onto his knee. It was wonderful.

We do the best we can with what we have.

P is obsessed with the telly tubbies! We don't get a signal for cbeebies so she gets it on the iPlayer. She gets very excited when the iPlayer logo comes up on the telly and let's me know what she wants to watch by her reaction when I flick through.

Current faves are:
Telly tubbies obvs
Q Pootle 5
The Numtums

I would be livid if J had been given dairy or egg or nuts. His reaction to any of those ingested is likely to induce anaphylaxis tho which terrifies me. He's only ever had his allergens indirectly through me breastfeeding as the were discovered via his allergy test when he was 9 months old. He has a massive skin reaction with hives if we so much as kiss him hours after something with milk in I think you need to voice your concerns in writing and make it clear that it cannot happen again and also include the issue that a child with a severe allergy could have died now 3 times in their care as you so rightly said on here!

We love anything ( going to clarify here, we means the DDs) with Justin, In The Night Garden, Nina and her Neurones (but am a slattern or they have changed the schedule so we rarely see that now), Jake the Scary baby, and Postman Pat. But just the theme tune. That is our it's time to go to nursery sign. We sing along then we leave.

In the evening the Bernard Cribbens thing is a Moment. They eat, then ITNG. Which is genius btw.

What Flouncey said! I'd make it clear that the next time F will be formally withdrawn, you will make an official complaint to Ofsted and would investigate legal action. I know some folks (who don't have to deal with the aftermath!!) get all eye-rolly about allergies but frankly if this is the case here (and there must be an element of this or else F's key worker should have been able to intervene!) then they aren't fit to provide catering.

You don't get a signal for cBeebies pass ? I get a signal for cbeebies. In France!!! WTF???

Oscar has always, and still does adore ITNG and Waybuloo. He watches ITNG most evenings after his tea, when we chill out a bit more.

He briefly watches other things if I put them on, but he is mostly all for the songs. so if a song comes on, he stops, and listens wiggles his bum a bit! He particularly likes the Katie Morag song .

He also seems to like it when the shapes come on Mr Maker. In fact, he thinks it hilarious if mummy is a shape.. . If I sing AND do the dance, he's hysterical with laughter!

He is fascinated by The Simposons. DS1 really frustrates me, putting it on while O is having his dinner, which results in O craning his neck past himself to bloody watch it. Every night I have to tell DS to turn it off GRRR!

Here is what has happened.

1st time, chef used soya cheese in a pasta dish, gave F that one instead of the proper one. Ran out of the kitchen to see her polishing it off and was dead panicky.

2nd time, manager was away and for reasons I will never know, her deputy decided to look for dairy free cheese for F. Thought she'd found some. Told chef it was fine, F had beans and cheese.

That was all early on, they have been fab and accomodating, and no slip ups, F sits next to the other allergy girl and is put in a safe place whilst the room is cleaned so there can be no accidents.

Currently, the chef is having an op, so a replacement is in. She has beej given a list of who can have what etc, as obv there are gluten frees, egg frees, veggies etc to cater for. The key workers have to trust that what the chef serves on named plates is appropriate. The chef served soya icecream. No doubt F lurved it. Sadly her gut has not.

It's tricky because they have been so fab, and on the whole cater so well. I don't do cross easily, and actually, this is just an uncontrolled way of doing 2 monthly dietary challenges, which we would do anyway. But I need to have trust in them that this cannot cannot cannot happen again. I will mull it over, over the weekend.

We youtube the clangers and bertha here. More for , y benefit than Fs.

Sorry for being a bit me me me tonight. Have had an argument with dh too so am off to bed to mope.

As I said pig an informal written complaint. A kind of three strikes you're out but I'm nice.

Next time you go formal.

bp. Hope you are ok.

I still reckon a carefully written letter which highlights what they have done well but makes clear that the mistakes cannot continue is the best way forward

Our aerial points into the roof pr. It needs fixed as we get old school telly right now - bbc1 bbc2 itv four and five. That's it. The first time p saw cbeebies at all was in France.

Her all time fave program is lazy town. She gets sqeally excited at that

Youtube can be evil. The video DD1 watched was vile. It started off all nice and cbeebies.

Sounds dreadful. Can you report it?

It ended up being jab-based. A needle into a finger which then spurted blood with sound effects. Just what our pre schoolers need.

Yup. Reported. But having watched a tellietubbies video being interspersed with a German sheisse video (those of you who get the south park reference I am not kidding) a year or less ago, which was still available a few months later, am not optimistic.

For goodness sake! What makes people do it? It's a bizarre way of getting kicks, frankly