And then they were THREE!!!!!!!!! Feb '04 mums sign in please

[MarsLady]

Hi all!

Well the DTs will be 3 on the 11th February. When did that happen??????????

I've decided to do a fancy dress party at home for them. It will go like this.......

I will cook some chicken nuggets and chips (homemade people... don't you worry lol) and the birthday cakes ... that's right CAKES ... will of course be lemon drizzle!

The wee beasts will arrive. Half will cry and moan, the rest will trash my house, kill the plants in the garden and annoy the neighbours. I'm trying to decide whether or not to have a bouncy castle as that annoys him too!

The mums will say how brave I am to have a party at home and do their best not to eat all of their wee ones' food (which obviously the wee beasts won't eat cos they don't do they? Sigh..............) The mums will have some "well... only a little bit then" cake. I'll offer some sparkly wine, which they won't drink as they will all be driving Tarquin and Jocasta the 200m home.

They will leave. I'll put in an emergency call to my cleaner. I will sink a bottle of wine and realise I've forgotten to pick up DD2 from school.

I will vow to use the soft play centre next year and come on here and post about how awful everyone's children are... including my wee beasts!

My babies are about to be 3! Time flies.

Mine turns 3 on valentines day. This is what we're doing for his party. I know I'm going to live to regret it....

We're having a pizza party (7 three year olds). I found a fantastic website in the US that sells pizza party packages that included an apron, chefs hat, rolling pin and pizza box all for £3 each. BUT they wouldn't deliver outside the US. So I went and sourced the things individually. Worked out a lot more expensive but still not very. I got each child a Tyrrell Katz apron and a little rolling pin. They're also each getting a paper chef's hat and a pizza box.

I will be making pizza dough which they can then all roll out. I found some cheap mini pizza baking trays at Tesco. They can then put whatever toppings they want on them and luckily I have two ovens so can probably fit them all in at once.

While the pizzas are cooking, they can decorate their boxes with stickers, crayons etc. They then get to eat their masterpieces out of their decorated boxes. No need for party bags as they will get their lovely aprons and rolling pins to take home with them

I have arranged with the local toddler group to borrow two little tables and kiddy chairs for us to use, plus am borrowing their indoor trampoline and slide so that they have something to play on if they get bored and its rainy out.

I dread to think what my kitchen will look like afterwards but hey ho, it's better than playing pass the parcel (my least fave game)

Oh that's sounds lovely! I'll let the godmothers organise that next year! lol

Would you mind emailing me the info as to where you sourced all of that? lovelymarslady at aol dot com. Or you can post here! Ta!

No problem

I got the chef's hats from www.splatcooking.co.uk

I got the aprons and rolling pins from www.thekidscookshop.co.uk

I got the pizza boxes from bagnboxman.co.uk

And I got personalised pizza invitations from www.vistaprint.co.uk

It ended up cost around £9.00 per child excluding the invitations and obviously I still have to pay for food but hopefully that won't cost too much. And I just think a lovely apron and rolling pin will be something they can use again instead of plastic rubbish in party bags (which admittedly I do get excited by but then get annoyed with just as fast).

Hope that helps.

So just the two of us then? lol

Sorry forgot to add THANKS!

Did all the Feb 04 mums leave the forum then apart from us? Blimey.. how scary!

Yup - just us by the looks of it.

Fair enough! We are a clique of 2!

And what a lovely clique we are. Perfect mothers in every way no doubt

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Can we be a clique of three??
DS is 3 on 10th and we're doing the all-singing, all-dancing hire the village hall type party - am most impressed by your classier efforts. We somehow talked ourselves into a 'creative play party - with 28 kids invited, I think I may win the most cleaning-up award...

So tell me about yourself Marslady.

I'm 33, live in the country near Newbury, have two boys (one almost 3, the other 16 months). I have a husband who I am not getting on particularly well with right now and it's making me miserable.

I run my own business but I only work two days a week and on weeks like this one coming up, not even that as my little one ended up in A&E this weekend with a chest infection so he can't go to nursery tomorrow.

Older son has regressed completely on the potty front - having been potty trained for ages. See nappies/potty training section for details.

Am in fact having a very large glass of wine right now because it has been an extraordinarily crap weekend.

Please tell me you can cheer me up.

Welcome

It was all I could do to stop myself from the soft play option.... there's still time! lol

hello funnyp - welcome to our clique. Very nice to have you on board and might I suggest Vanish for your party - it cleans up everything

Thank you Mars

JandJ DT2 is pretty much fully potty trained but you have to watch him. He likes to leave deposits on the carpet if his call for the toilet is ignored.

Me: hmmmmmmmmmmmm how long have you got?

I've got 5 children (yes... yes.... but some on MN have got 6 or more... so I'm a lightweight!). DS1 14, DD1 12, DD2 8 and the DTs 3 11th Feb.

I'm a Doula and I love it!

I'm studying 2 courses with the OU currently. I've got 2 years left to go to complete my literature degree (and already I'm tempted by the thought of a language degree).

I love to go out salsa dancing (at least twice a week). I figure I'm already sleep-deprived so I may as well enjoy it.

I'm 40 in April and my best friend and I are going to St Lucia to celebrate my birthday and Cuba to celebrate hers! We are not taking any family as we want to have a holiday and that means not taking our work with us.

OK - you just made me jealous of your life - well except for the 5 children part. How you manage all that I have no idea.

And the ST Lucia, cuba thing - how bloody fab!

Hi Everyone,

havent been around for ages, more of a lurker now!!

DD is 3 on valentines day and im not brave enough to have a party. Our house is quite small, and there would be at least 5 family children to invite , 6 local children, then her playgroup friends and her nursery friends. Way too many. Might tkae her swimming instead.

I feel awful about it now after looking at you posts!!

Hi Cuppy - your child and mine share the same birthday!!! Don't worry about not having a party - they dont know and don't particularly care at this age. I just like the thought of dictating what the party is at this point because I know in the future I'm going to have to put up with PowerRanger parties or some such hideousness

I did think about softplay , but the ones in swindon arent great. Olus i think they may be too young

Hi cuppy. Do you need a halo too?

I don't think that they notice that much. Our party is more for the big ones than the DTs. Plus I think of it more as a giant play date (with cleaning).

J&J - just looked at your potty thread ... ds had a real relapse AFTER he was ill recently - took me a while to figure out he was probably still feeling a bit pants ...is your ds otherwise well? It's the most frustrating thing, isn't it - having been able to smile nicely and say 'never mind, darling' when he was potty training, I did find myself wanting to yell 'what the bloody hell do you think you're doing, you numpty' when he started weeing on the floor again....
Mars - ohhh, I'd love to do a language course too (did lit at uni, but did it was quite a language based course - some lovely sociolinguistics stuff...) and your 40th sounds fabby!

Me ...
Superlightweight owner of two (slightly shopped soiled) los - ds has a little sister of 10 mths. Also work 2 days/week from home - do qualitative market research - love it... but have just been handed shocker of a tax bill for last year - eek.
When not drinking and/or reading, also help out with local NCT branch stuff... Am seriously tempted to train as an antenatal teacher - don't think I could scale the dizzy heights of doula-ing, Mars - but bet its wonderful up there....

fp... you should definitely do the antenatal training. Such a need for it. I'm constantly getting calls.

Who would you train with? And don't be so sure on the Doula front. It's wonderful and it fits in!

Hi cuppy - don't blame you at all - after all, they won't know yet will they? We were planning a nice little low-key thing at home til I added up how many people somehow I had to invite..! We're doubling it up with dd's first birthday too to get our 'money's worth!'

fp, I did look at doula-ing, esp in the heady days after dd's birth (wonderful experience, despite being totally not the pool home-birth I had planned!), but I feel like having had 2 'easy rides' of births I would maybe struggle with someone who had a harder time, iykwim (why I think that would be different with being an antenatal teacher, I really don't know!) If I did do it, I'd just assumed NCT, purely becuase I'm already invovled locally ... who else is there?? (Know lots on the bf front, but not antenatally...)