Here comes the terrible twos!!! (OCT 04 TODDLERS)

[biglips]

wwwwwweeeelllllllll im still calm.... (just about!!)...

woops DS1 seems to have poted a message to his mate [embarrassed]

aww thats sweet!

Geog, I'm glad Alex had a gr8 Christmas. That is sweet though. Do you think you will ever change your MN name? Sahmgeog or something???
How are the reports going Cazzy? Helping to keep you busy until baby 3 appears on the scene?
Grace is doing really well. No accidents!! She's a clever little thing.
Good for you as well, what a lovely Mummy you are. All that, going to the loo every hour and making sure you will be near one presumably.
I know I will have to do it as well, eventually, but groan! What a horrid Mummy.
It's just that he's self-sufficient at home, he goes on the potty and then brings it to me to empty (and to get his bum wiped , it's nice and easy for me. I'm a lazy lump.
I feel slightly guilty that I haven't bothered taking things any further with potty training, but I've run out of steam.
Oh well, as long as he isn't wearing a nappy to nursery in September I'll be happy. Or at least isn't wearing them to primary school.
I sound like you now Geog
OMG I have to find out about nurseries!?!?!
Do you have to book in advance if it's a nursery attached to a school?
Hmm, I've had a thought, maybe my mum will finish of the pottying for me.
Oh the Tunisia holiday is looking a bit unlikely now because there are very few slots left now with the free child place. We don't even have a passport for Alfie anyway, and mine expired.
May just wait until Mar/April, carefully avoiding the Easter holidays.
I think the whole charging the same for a two-year old as a sixteen year old is a total racket on the part of travel companies. I mean Alfie would be happy to eat some of my food for the whole holiday, and sleep with me and DP. I can't imagine him doing that when he's sixteen somehow. [rolls eyes]
I must go to bed!

hiya maisie

have u looked on Teletext holidays (itv pg 200) as we got our holiday on there as a last minute cancellation for half price ...my dp couldnt help but brag about it on the holiday (we went on a cruise) which was fantastic

hope u r ok cazzy? xxx

Well i'm going to Korea and Spain next month (without all the little geogs), feels a bit weird really.
Know what you mean about the name maisy but just too lazy. you want to check out the nursery situation, I am chair of the pre school DD goes to and where babygeog will go and if his name wasn't already down he wouldn't get in in September, we're full already for then, but I know it varies around the country.

is nursery is for when mums are at work full time? as im a SAHM but thinking of putting DD into her nursery part time after April but atm im paying one morning a week at her nursery - too expensive to pay a whole day as its more or less my DP's day wage gone

Thanks for the info Geog. I've got a private nursery literally one minute from where I live, which would be handy. I don't know what the chances are of getting Alfie in there would be, I would imagine, not great.
However, the only pull of that nursery is the location, it's not my first preference - I would rather that Alfie went somewhere he could progress on with the same children, to primary school.
I'm in Edinburgh, and the Scottish education system is different. I should just start a thread shouldn't I?
I suppose the other benefit of the private nursery is that the school nursery finishes at lunchtime and that's it, as opposed to paying for the afternoon at the private nursery.
I suppose I had better mosey round and ask about waiting lists for the private nursery.
There are quite a few good school nurseries in my area, but it's just not that clear how you apply, all I can find on the internet is that you need to apply for a primary school place when the child is four???
Biglips I don't think you would be eligible for extra funding for a nursery place if you are at home.
I think, that it is possible to have some tax credits to help if both you and your partner are working over 16 hours a week each - at least I think that's correct.
Is your mum taking Tweenie sometimes, to give you a break? I don't know if you have tried it, but I recommend Netmums for support in your area. It's great because they list lots of local stuff.
Speaking of childcare, my mum retires in February, so she will be free to look after Alfie more often, Yay! And he loooves his nanny.

Dp was telling me that when I was at work, he and DM were watching Cbeebies with Alfie and that Ava was on it (did she have her baby then?)
So she said something like 'of course, we will be back later'and DM said 'of course' and (of course) Alfie said 'of course'.
So Dp asked Alfie if he wanted fishcakes for tea. 'Of course!' said Alfie. The whole evening...
I wonder if he will say it when he wakes up.
'Would you like to drive the car today Alfie?'
'Of course!'
Cazzy - are the reports finished yet??

Hellooooo!!!

No they are not - but thanks for asking. Too much time on mumsnet and not enough repsrts. I am having a mental block...I cannot write what I want to write so have to aviod saying anything about her approach to work..umm so what to write...

x is a lively and enthusiastic student who sometimes needs to curb her enthusiasm in order to allow her to listen to and learn from the views of others ... well that was one of my well worn phrases!
DS's favorite at the moment is 'oh, I see'

I have phrased it as...she can work well..

the thing is mother is very over proective so anything I wrtie that is negative is of course a reflection on my bad teaching...and also this child is a major attention seaker (steals things, scribbles on work) which may or may not be child proection hence why I cannot write it..

ha ha - have borrowed your phrase for someone ele...its brillant!

Thanks very much...

writing 250 words about someone (on top of all the subjects reports) it so damn hard! - I think I have written aload of complete crap!

What about 'x is a creative (scribbles on books), and gregarious (runs around the class screaming) student, although she could reach new heights (get an F) if she applied her considerable (I am considering them) abilities to structured learning (sat down at a table for more than two minutes)?

Do you think parents would notice if you gave them all the same comments?

hiya everyone....

my feet are killing me as been preparing the ingredient for lentil curry soup and also doing our dinner...them SHALLOTS ONIONS - my god they stunged my eyes!!! then when we finished off our BIG double layer choc cake (it was supposed to be for Xmas but i forgotton all about it, it was in the freezer) dd was happily dipping the cake in her orange juice and sucking it up with a straw!! yuck!!!!!!!

OMG Biglips. I think Tweenie and Alfie would enjoy a picnic. He puts stuff in his glass all the time: peas, grapes, oatcake then fishes it out and eats it.
Or he pours milk over his dinner, but then he leaves it.
I spotted some biccies in the supermarket on the way home tonight - Fox's Creations. Ex-Christmas stock, so we are munching.
I feel sick!!!
It's the weather, I want chocolate!!!

lol! maisie..was it Asda by any chance of ex-xmas stcok as there were loads but we had our big chocolate gateux and ate it till we felt sick!!!!

I'm not going there then!! That is a sick face, not envious.
It was our local co-op that had the ex-xmas stock, but their idea of a discount is 1p off the day after the sell-by date. [rolls eyes]

hiya everyone....dd is starting to put sentences together slowly (meaning on and off) so we are getting there without having to understand the multi-crap that they are TRYING to tell you "jfkdjfs kjadnjkancj nkad knads" "EHH?!"

dd was throwing up last sunday which bought out a cough and then a cold since yesterday..today she looked terrible as it was all in her eyes all bloodshot!... i woke her up at 9am and she went back to bed at 12pm it took me 2 MINUTES for her to be fast asleep - she didnt do anything apart from watching telly

how is everyone??

Hugs to Tweenie, hope she is feeling better soon.
I was just looking at the Holland and Barrett 75% off sale and they have junior echinachia (or however it's spelt) maybe Tweenie would like some of that.
Is she eating OK?
Alfie finally got the tooth that was making him act like a gremlin. Has Tweenie got all of hers now? In fact have all the babies got their teeth now?
We went to a toddler group this morning, Alfie was the oldest there, but there were a few almost two year olds, so he had someone to fight over toys with. He was actually really good, smiling at everyone and when challenged by a very determined 19 month old boy,
for a ride-in car thing, he just stepped back 'it's all yours dude'.
At the end I thought I had better give him a bit of notice before we left, so I told him we are going home in ten minutes and he wailed 'nooo' and threw himself on the floor and just lay there, face down, in a tragic way. It was so Marlon Brando melodramatic I couldn't help laughing.
It's been raining here and raining some more, I wish is would snow or be sunny or something.

maisie - tweenie had just starting to eat abit properly as she had not much to eat all week. thanks anyway

Well well well...tweenie had just put her tights on ALL BY HERSELF!! (proud mummy!)

maisie - well i took tweenie to a toy library and we came across a boy that is abit older than tweenie but he didnt want to share ANYTHING!... everything was his... Tweenie had abit of a shock but she is not that bad as only when she had been playing with summat a few seconds ago..she will try and get it back, but this little boy was grabbing everything that he hadnt even played with it..i thought it was funny till he had his hand around tweenies neck ...tweenie didnt know what to do next!!

Yay Biglips! It sounds like Tweenie is on the mend.
That sounds horrible, having another child put their hands round Tweenie's neck. Not that the little boy had a clue what he was doing I'm sure, still.
So far Alfie has escaped any real thumps or anything, but I know he'll be in a 'teddies at dawn' situation at some point. I had a few incidents of fisticuffs when I was at infants and juniors. Nothing at High school- thank goodness. I must have scared everyone by then.
I suppose you can only go over and separate them and explain that it's not OK to grab/hit.
What happened with this little boy, when he put his hands round Tweenie's neck?
Oh we've got the Meningacocchal (I have no idea how that's spelt ) injection this afternoon.
Yahroo!

maisie - his mum wasnt there as i think she went to the toilet and ive never met the mum before so i didnt say anything but everyone else inc the staff saw him doing it. Eek!

Was alfie ok after the jab?