December 2012 - 2nd birthday party chat? Already?!

[PurplePidjin]

Here we are

Utpoian we have an ofsted outstanding nursery near us which you have to put your child down for pretty much at conception if you want a place age 1. Lots of people use our nursery as a stop gap, until their place comes up. I'd say about 50% decide to stay rather than move.

By September next year you'd pretty much be looking at preschool point anyway, and the 3yr funding. People will move then anyway (probably why the place will become free) as they decide to use school based preschools etc, or like us moving A in December to be nearer DD's school.

I would go with 2nd choice, see how it is in reality. When a place comes up at 1st choice you can see how you feel- move or stay depending on how you've got on, whether DC2 will get space when you need it etc.

I would probably go with the 2nd choice and then reassess. Ds had to move nurseries at 20 months as we moved to a new area and now at age 3 moved again to a pre-school and he's settled fine everywhere and is happy and thriving. No adverse effect we can see so far!! Montessori nurseries always seem to get good feedback.
Only thing with doing just the 1 day a week is I think a lot of nurseries say that it takes them longer to settle. Although ds only did 2 and no problems.
Depends how much you think you'll need that extra day- think you says you already have childcare for 2? So you'll still have time alone with new baby and some rest time!

Said not says

Thanks for the responses - they do morning only for 2-3 it turns out, so he'd be doing two mornings which should help settling? I think we'll look at taking them up on it - i won't 'need' the extra day to start with, but may by late spring/early summer. Going for a second visit on Friday..

Sounds good. He'll have a great time, you'll have new baby & mummy time with some time to catch your breath ;) then in the afternoon you'll appreciate seeing ds again :)

I definitely appreciated ds's nursery days when dd came. Felt really guilty admitting it at the time but was good for all of us.

Only a teeeeeny bit jealous of nursery chat that's the biggest drawback of the move. No chance of a place here

I'm going away now to sulk and look up how to sedate a toddler

Oh yes books! Who's in the loo? Is a firm fave around here.

Bloody phone not updating - soz missed all the nursery chat!
Hope you're tucked up in bed already utopian

Ds hates me. He's so grumpy and just doesn't want me to be anywhere near him!

Is he coming down with something?

He's teething so could be that? Plus lack of language is frustrating

O is being grotty due to teeth and language too, spotty. We're off to the gym for me followed by toy library grouo for him this morning in the hope of some peace.

My dbro is staying with us for a few weeks which is really nice - not just because he made supper for all of us yesterday cause i was shattered and O loves playing football with him!

T just had massive meltdown because I threw away the chewed banana that she spat on our filthy kitchen floor. To make matters worse, I offered her a fresh piece of the same banana. Obviously only an idiot would do such a thing!

We're getting tantrums because he's wee'd but he's not telling me, just going straight to throwing hemself around! Hurry up, language!

WL you are clearly the most unreasonable mummy ever

T has officially been possessed by the devil today. Total refusal to go in the pushchair where she normally sleeps. After much negotiation I managed to get her in the car. 30 mins of screaming for a 5 minute nap. She's insisting on boobs or teletubbies and I'm getting absolutely nothing done. Not feeling the love today!

Sounds like and is needed all round, well actually it sounds like lots of is needed.

I have read quite a few facebook statuses today which are about children off different ages having meltdowns for no reason. Maybe something is in the air?

Ds is currently having a tantrum because we came home from a walk. Ten minutes so far.

There must be something in the air. We've not had a great day either. I find it hard as I grew up in a house where smacking was punishment, now when I'm tired and having a bad day I feel so close to smacking DS :(

Nutella how are you doing with 2? I'm finding it so, so, so hard when they're both screaming at me. Feel like leaving the house and never coming back. Then DD will fall asleep, DS gets my attention and all is good again. This too shall pass.

Wine o'clock is here!

Have one for me WL! I'm going to have a brownie.

Stacks they are unceremoniously driving me insane! DS is doing everything he shouldn't and screaming when I tell him no or grab him and take him off of his high chair. He pushes his high chair over to the bookcase & then stands on it to get to things he shouldn't have.
This also has the added bonus of big scratches all over the floor.

But DS has got a cold and I love his cuddles and feel so horrible when I become shouty mummy.
I can't really complain about DD. She has the occasional scream time, but she sleeps lots and has started giving me some big funny smiles.
This too shall pass, this too shall pass....

My pleasure to nutella! There's a theme then - T has a cold which is why she's been so difficult and of course I feel bad for her. Luckily I've managed to largely keep it together. Going to sup my wine, do a little bit of sewing and turn in early.

A has a horrible cough. He was tantruming earlier- his hands aren't quite big enough to hold the stack of 5 mini board books he wanted to carry around! Everything has "no" and cross squealing.

We got the proofs of the photos they did at A's nursery. Absolutely hilarious. You have never seen such a grumpy baby.

He was a bit lost today. First time for him dropping DD at school then going to nursery alone.

Ah that's a sad image beasty. Hope he was ok.