May '09 Fine and DANDY vive la difference! 3 months on and our babies and lives are changing.

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Well Dandy!!!!!!! Just for you after an annoying night

"American toothy customer service specialists"

you can tell an american either by their teeth or by their tapered jeans with 'sneakers'.

again. The teeth thing can be a bit spooky. DD1 has mentioned it when she's been watching absolute shite crap Disney shows, she's fascinated by how artificially white their teeth are.

The tapered jeans and sneakers too.

Also LOL at poo faces esp at Looby's cross-eyed M

Grumpy am joining you on the French vino, sorry vin. It's a claret, very nice, so much so am now worried it may be a ££££ bottle someone bought us as a gift and we are 'wasting' it on mid week quaffing. Well, not that worried

and at comedy 'Allo 'Allo style french English.

Momi you can so tell Americans by their teeth! I feel quite about mine when I meet Americans. Oh and you can always tell middle-aged US male businessmen/professionals by their side partings (and teeth).

I am pleased to report that the French generally have crappy teeth comme les Anglais. Stained through coffee, cigarettes and wine. I can proudly bear my yellow fangs.

Momi has lovely teeth btw

Spangle I'm quaffing Aldi 1Euro odd red and it's bloody lovely. It is quite local though, and the wine is so cheap here. I do have a bottle of claret though that cost 7Euros, that's deffo for a special occasion.
The side partings . There's a fashion here for the men to wear short-sleeved shirts and ties, which always makes me feel uncomfortable, it's so 'in-between'.

oh, i wish i had a glass of wine right now ...

NO NO NO to short-sleeved men!

Grumpy You always make me giggle too, I wish I could have a glass of wine, I've had no alcohol for 1 year+ and I'm still not allowed any now post op.

I do really like being a SAHM, it's just, with you guys being sorted in careers and stuff, I don't want to be jobless forever I've absolutely LOVED my time at home at home with DD, I've actually had a little chat with DP tonight, and we've got to go into it in my detail etc, but I think I may go back to college next September and do a new course, in something different, J will b almost 1 and a half, so we can think about possibly putting him into nursery, anyway its a long way off, it's just an idea

I am alot happier now, I've had my op, I've almost completely recovered, my PND has compltetely gone, I'm seeing a lady about my panic attacks, which they're going to try and help me with, thinks are on the up hopefully

Belgian Your pics of C on FB are so cute, I bet you could get her hair in a little bobble lol

Were having a few little issues with DD's nursery at the mo, I'm not very good at confrontations, so I'm going to send DP down to talk to the teacher. First of all they told us that she may be able to move straight into reception class, with her being very forward, and now her teacher's told me today that they won't be doing that at all. I don't know what to do. Apart from the fact that she's interacting/sharing etc, i'd be better off keeping her at home and carrying on with the thing's that i'd been doing. She can already say her alphabet, and write it, and write her name, and all her numbers, and add, and knows all her shapes, how many sides they have, all her senses, were learning the time at the moment, which i've already been told by the teacher they don't do until key stage 1. I know she's only 3 and a half, but she's in a nursery class with other 3 year olds who don't know how to write at all etc. When I asked her if she'd had a good day today, the first thing she said to me was, "yes Mommy, that little girl there did a wee wee and a poo poo in her knickers mommy and that boy still wears a nappy, I thought we were in big school mommy?" I don't want to take her there tomorrow, I'm so embarrassed..

As the French say 'Miam Miam'.

agree with LLare wholeheartedly - NO NO to short-sleeved men!

llare not just short-sleeved, but with a tie .

and slip-on shoes too I think

Jael X-posts there, I'm so happy you're feeling better and just remember that when I'm feeling bobbins tomorrow because I've had too much wine, you'll be all bright and breezy. As far as your DD is concerned, I would see about having a quiet word, maybe they have a teaching assistant who could spend some extra time with her so she's not bored, she sounds like she needs the stimulus of reading and writing and numbers.

actually Grumpy. do you have any vodka? would love a vodka martini but have run out of the ingredients.

ahh. will go make another cuppa camomile (as it's spelled on the Morrison's packaging).

Jael, your dd is very 'forward'. my 3.5 year old knows her numbers/alphabet etc but can't write them or her name . and, there are a number of 3/4 year olds who have accidents in her nursery.

I can't even remember what it feels like to be tipsy!!lol I can't even remember the last time I had a drink, so I think that qualifies for it being tooo long lol
BTW I like men in short sleeved shirts, but not with a tie...even though, my DP used to have to wear that for work, and he still looked lol

I just don't wan't DD to sit there while the others are learning how to write a letter, whereas she already knows them, and alot more, I already had a word last week, where she said about her going into reception, yet today she said that wouldn't happen. I'm not mentionining again, I'm not having them think I'm a pushy parent or something, I'm going to send DP instad in a week or so I think X

Jael, I looked at quite a few pre-schools and nurseries. One of the schools I looked at was the nursery of a prep school but they all cost pretty much the same with the government voucher. Anyway, what they told me they'd do is to move any pre-schooler into the reception class for reading and writing if they indicated a readiness but keep them in the pre-school or play based learning. Pre-schoolers learn a lot through play so even if your DD doesn't seem to be making progress, she will be in lots of ways.

Re career, I very much feel I am in a career crossroads at the moment. In some ways I am very envious of you Jael because you have it all in front of you. I don't want to go back to my old one but I'm scared to leave the security. Just don't do what I did and decide on a career after reading an advert in bloody Cosmopolitan!

DS isn't in the prep school btw, I just mentioned that because of the movement between classes. At DS's pre-school they do phonics etc at some point but DS isn't. He is 3 next month and can recognise some letters but he isn't interested in reading or writing yet. He is mostly interested in taking photos of his poo to show daddy. How is that for a talent?

DD2 peed the bed the other night (too lazy to get up) and she'll be 5 next month. She can write her letters (kind of) and can spell some words but just isn't interested.

DD1 could write, read, do simple sums by this stage.

I used to get stressed by DD2's lack of progress until I realised that she's just not that bothered. She's getting there, she's rather be drawing (she is an excellent artist) or taking something to bits and putting it back together. She has her talents

Momi no vodka, I'm afraid, I can't remember the last time I had any spirits. And chammomile cammomile camomile whatever can be spelt in many ways!

llare, photos of poo...

Momino I worked with DC up until I fell pregnant with DD, in nurseries, so I know the basics for teaching children at home. I knew we were going to have "problems" lol with her, she's always been forward. Right from when she was a baby. We were just lucky, so me and DP are ready with J, cause he's a little monkey, and probably going to be the complete opposite.

I should imagine it's the same for you though too, you're children won't be exactly the same, because they're all different

llare What happened with cosmopolian? I used to read that mag, but it's now full of clothes I can't afford, so theres no point buying it lol if I get 5 mins to read a mag nowadays it's normally "That's Life" or "Real People" but I do like the odd celeb mag to...
So maybe that's what DD's teacher was on about today then and I got confused, because I thought she'd said move her up completely DD wasn't interested, and then it came all of a sudden, before her interest in learning to write all her numbers and letters we'd just get a ton of pictures of stick people lol

I haven't read any glossy magazines since 2006 when I discovered mumsnet!

I'd love to be able to teach my dd's properly but don't seem to have the patience to do so. it's easier when Harper is napping so maybe we'll work on dd1 writing her name just to see if she's interested.

and just wait with your J... he may feel he has to keep up with his older sis .

llare photos of poo? The boy has talent!

The only magazines I read now are in waiting rooms!

Llare lol

Momino You can always try, just don't push her if she's not ready I'm a little worried J may not get the same attention as I've given to DD. If I want to start college and try and see what kind of career path i'd like to go down, it's going to have to be next September, J will be 1 1/2, the course will be at least 1 year long, so he wont get that 1on1 time me and DD had...I guess I've got to weigh up the pro's and con's, I'll be letting J go at his own pace though, sometimes people look at me as if I've forced DD to learn these thing's and it really gets me down.

Well ladies, I'm an hour ahead and I've been up since 06.30 this morning (so that's 05.30 in ye olde englyshe pounds sterling tyme). And I have my 'dear' mother here tomorrow (don't worry Momi, she will have children thrown at her whilst I am 'busy', ie. MN'ing sleeping and DVD watching).

So goodnight all, sweet and peaceful dreams to all!

Hi! I'm back home and sitting in bed feeding O
Had a good evening except for stream of texts from DH! I left at 7.40 and DH managed ok with playing the changing O into sleepsuit then giving him his bottle. Once that was all done though at about 9.10, DH kept texting me and asking me to come home
In the end I phoned about 9.30 and decided they were ok as I couldn't hear O. DH said "that's because I'm standing up. As soon as I sit down, he doesn't like it." I suggested he stayed standing for a bit... DH asked if I'd be home for about 10pm. I left the girls and got home about 10 past to find O asleep! DH said "He fell asleep 10 mins ago."
I think DH found it all a bit stressful but actually coped ok. He probably feels quite proud now Good thing too as I'm out next Thursday night too at a work meeting....

Sorry for rambling, just needed to IYKWIM!

Lol at all the chat on here tonight.
Grumpy - you do seem on top form
Llare - for a minute I thought you were going to share the poo photos! No need!