Oct 08 - Chair climbing, spider greeting, potty training? NOOOOOO, they're still babies! <wibble>

[50ftQueenie]

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - 50ftQueenie - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

Hope this is ok ladies.

Ronshar - I think I'd be upset and angry too so obviously YANBU . But, who set the restriction about spouses? Are his sisters organising the party, or is someone else - maybe its to do with cost/space or something?

I'm off to bed now, my kids are exhausting me!!! Night all!

Ronshar - I think I may have to make a trip there to see the darn things. The internet is providing me with too many options and not enough details to make a decision. I'm not certain I'm looking forward to taking my two into a camera shop though......

MIL doesnt know anything about it.
It is in early discussions between the children. Something was said about it only being "the children".
Which sums them up really. It is her 60th and yet not one of them has been arsed to sort out a pressie or anything.
Maybe if dh sis got her head out of her own arse for a few mins she would realise how insulting it is!
DH & I did briefly talk about going over for the weekend a few weeks ago but left it open!
I thought that I was being a bit sensitive and everything.
Next time they want lunch I shall not open the door. She lives in London and it is like a royal visit when she can be bothered to come down. Last time one of the children was sick in the car and she wanted me to take my washing out of my machine and put hers in. i wouldnt mind but it was mid cycle!!!
This is dh sister, not mil. She is mostly lovely.

Ekka, that thought would terrify me. Children, glass cases, expensive camera stuff.
Full use of the pushchair that day I expect!

YANBU ronshar. Bloody families.

I don't need to get tough with D (I hope). He was doing really well a couple of weeks ago - going to bed happily and sleeping through, which is why I think it's something temporary bothering him. I was tough with him about his feed tonight though. He arsed about when I was trying to feed him before bed, and only had a tiny bit, so then when he wanted more before dh took him up to bed I told him no, he'd missed his chance! He had had some oat milk from a cup, so I know that he won't be hungry/thirsty.

No idea re cameras.

Ronshar - That's terrible! YADNBU!

CSWS how is your mum now?

Off to bed thank you ladies.

She's physically ok ronshar - due to go back to work in a couple of weeks.
Still an evil bitch though.

morning all,
ronshar, yanbu, has the thought crossed their minds that MIL might actually want to see you! and it is her birthday. Perhaps you could arrange for you and DH to take her out for a meal or something seperate?
btw, your post to CSWS last night, exactly described my year when DD was born - baby to feed, toddler to potty train and year R child to collect from school.....I am glad I've been there and got the Tshirt.

Yanbu ronshar.
They are big fat meanies.
csws you must be exhausted to still bf and be pg and have DD, too. I don't know how you're coping!

myjob I hope you have fun on your holiday!

If parents are late at my school they wait in the library or by the entry area with the secretaries and principals. But parents are very rarely late. I would be very upset if I had to wait for a parent daily for that long. Is there anything school can do to make them collect on time aubergenie and Rachie? That sounds awful for the kids

have a lovely holiday!

Oh, everybody else is having a (real) life today....
twiddles thumbs.
Guess I'll have to go do some nurtury/cooky stuff after all!

Not exactly pepper, but ds didn't nap today, except for 15 mins on way back from playgym this morn, and then some when we did school run this afternoon, so I haven't been able to play.

I had to collect my sickly boy from school this afternoon so had to do actual parenting. M wasn't very kind to him either. She poked him in the eye with a pen and kicked him on the head repeatedly because he was in her way. She's such a meanie!

DS2 is sporting a cut right across the bridge of his nose where DS1 threw a hot water bottle at him . That's really quite unlucky, to be so wounded by something that's 99% squidgy.
Of course, I blame British Gas, we would never have been knee deep in hot water bottles if the heating had just worked for January....

Oh dear to sickly and injured babies.

Can I just clarify after my earlier judginess, that I was complaining about those parents who are persistently late (like, twenty minutes or longer) to collect their children, not the ones who have to collect siblings from somewhere else in the school or who get stuck in traffic from time to time, and are really apologetic.

I think I may have a thief in my class. I took a really (and expensive) lovely pop up minibeast book into school, as we're learning about habitats and the minibeasts have gone missing!! I've had to have a big talk to the children about how worried I am that they've got lost and how I hope that no-one's taken them home by mistake. If they don't turn up by the end of tomorrow, I think I'm going to have to get tough. I've no idea what the consequence should be if they don't turn up and I don't find out who the culprit is. I can't punish everyone.

oh aubergenie.
The kids I teach are so young that I just say "well, I know who took it, and the person who did it knows who they are, so I'm not going to say anymore. I just hope the person who I know took it will secretly return it to my desk at some point today and no one has to know - you can do it anytime. I really hope it gets returned soon because you all know how much I value honesty and trust and I hope I don't have to lose my trust in the person that I know took it"
The kid always returns it and I have absolutely no idea who took it!! Are your kids too old and wise to fall for that?

Hmm tricky Aubergenie. I've written out about three different suggestions but they were all rubbish! I really don't know how you can sort it out. How very sad though. I hate it when someone's kindness gets taken advantage of.

Pepper - Aw poor DS2. That sort of thing usually happens to me!

DS is feeling much better now. I realised that he wasn't too ill when he practically inhaled a chocolate brownie.

Or just talk with them about honesty and being trustworthy.

Give the kids an "out"
i.e. "i know those minibeasts must have looked like so much fun. You know what I think happened? I think maybe someone got really excited and really wanted to play with them at home and show their family and accidentally put them in their bag in their excitement! I hope the person that did that puts them back (designated location) sometime before lunch today. I'm really looking forward to it! And that person will not be in trouble if the minibeasts are returned safely"

One time, I had a basket that I covered with a tea towel. I had all the students go to their lockers and pretend to take something out and put it in their coat (and the child who did take the thing got the actual toy that was taken). Then each child went to the basket on his/her own and put their imaginary or real thing inside the covered basket without anyone else seeing if something was actually put in or not (like when they are trying to be secretive with pass the coin or whatever). Then the kid who took it has an easy way of returning it without anyone (except you) knowing. And you can chat with that child later individually.

Sorry if all my suggestions are crap!

No Star - they're not crap suggestions at all! They know that I don't know who took it because we had a talk about it today and I wanted to check that they hadn't been lost somewhere in the classroom, as I wasn't at work at the end of last week. I was going to give them a deadline that the person could return them by and I'd say no more about it. I just don't know what to do if the person doesn't bring them back. I like your basket suggestion. I've got a secrets box in my classroom where children can write me things that they don't want to talk about face to face. I might say that they can put the minibeasts back in there if they don't want anyone to see them.

Ronshar - YANBU. Surely you became part of the family when you married your dh?