Hi all
MJ I had to laugh it sounds alot like M and N. M especially is terrible for lying, it does my head in it really does. She has to be on death's door for me to let her stay off school now! I dont know if anyone else has ever noticed but I find they often have a kind of sweet smell when they are really ill, if i cant smell that and she's not actually physically being sick then she goes to school! If she really is ill they can phone me to go and get her again.
Agree half term really is a killer. I do have dp around to help although tbh he knackered his knee even more trying to walk home at the weekend and is in quite a lot of pain so cant really do much and is pretty short tempered with the kids which doesnt help as they all seem to wind each other up. And all 3 of them argue over what to watch on the tv too!! Although ben 10 seems to be pretty popular all round at the moment, even I'm quite enjoying it actually!
D is still only on 2 meals a day although this is partly due to having a cough and now cold which have put him off a bit but hge's still having plenty of bf. He didnt have any solids at all for a couple of days so we're going slowly again now. This morning I decided to try and spoon feed him some breakfast instead of doing it blw style but we endd up in an even worse state than normal! Every mouthful went it, got swished around abit, mixed with saliva then spat out! Spoon feeding really isn't his thing! Saw dietician yesterday (did I say? She wasn't worried anyway) and i said he wasn't good with spoon feeding so we were just giving him finger foods (didnt wanna have to explain BLW) and she said oh its probably an idea to try and give him more off a spoon so he learns to take it before its too late. Too late for what?!? He's gonna get to 18 and not be able to eat off a spoon I know its often suggested the other way and you wanna introduce solids and lumps before too late or you can have alot of trouble trying to get them to take it but cant see how it works the other way! Oh well, she was very nice really.
Have just been searching cake making sites for inspiration as i always make dcs birthday cakes and have decided to attempt a castle cake for dd. She had a castle for her 3rd birthday but it was a flat one based on the toy castle we'd bought her from elc. This will be a 3d pink girly castle with ice cream cone turrets and all! Feeling the need to compensate because I think her last 2 cakes have not been as good as ds's last 2 so going to try and make hers extra special. And have been trawling poundland and The Works for party bag things and prizes and all the usual crap. I'm not doing anything more than hiring an empty hall as no money for anything else but hall is already booked and invitations out so will be traditional party with lots of party games. Might start a thread in party section soon asking for party game ideas. Have the usual pass the parcel, pin the tail on the donkey and all the musical chairs/statues/bumps but if anyone has any other suggestions they'd be much appreciated We have 20+ 6 and 7 year olds, a very big, very empty hall with a stage, some balloons and a cd player
Sorry another epic post with no personals I must start taking notes again!