October 08 - Ooh fancy that!

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We filled up a thread without even noticing!

Primary school outcome for dd today . They say that the emails will be sent out by 6pm (though may take longer to get through to us).

definitely no newborns here - DH got the final all clear after his snip , so after a mere 800 years I can come off the pill - bit scared though tbh. The doc suggetsed a second test to be on the very safe side, but DH poo-poohed that idea. I shall be more than livid if I get PG cos he can't face giving another sample....
On another point (and in between being quite excited about waiting for CSWS to produce!) I weighed DD today - she's 9.7kg or 21lb 5oz.
That does sound small to me - are't they supposed to double their birthweight at 6 months and treble by one?? She's 20.5 months and was 8 lb - well 7 lb 15.5 oz - which is 8 lb in my book!.

or is it double their weight by a year? I'm confusing myself now .

No idea about weight. I keep meaning to get W weighed but HV's have all moved to the new childrens center. What we need one of those round here for I have no idea! So I now dont know what day to go on!

Myjob. That is the best fun of siblings. I dont want you to play with my stuff but I dont want to be on my own either.
Good luck tomorrow ladies. A whole new world awaits you. Be prepared to be transported back to your own school days and start saying stuff like " at my school we used to...."
Also the child you spot who you automatically think you dont want B or P to be friends with. Well that will be your childs best friend. Straight away. Just smile.

Pepper. Dont worry about weight. As long as DD is walking and talking(kind of) then she is just fine.

Do you want to know how many times I have had to change the way I spelt weight

Don't say that they have to be walking and talking ronshar - ds still doesn't talk! I concur that it's treble by 1, but as usual it's just a guideline.

I don't get to stay and see anything tomorrow ronshar, so I won't need to worry about who she plays with yet!

myjob - ha ha - be prepared to be utterly shocked at the state some parents manage to get their children into ready for school.
DS2 had his accompsnied visit last week - there was a little girl there who had sprinted out of the classroom 5 times in the first 15 minutes. Her mother did NOTHING to get her back - just let the TA chase after her, and that attitude continues as they abdicate all parental responsibility and everything becomes the school's fault responsibility. While they are freed up to have more fags and more kids.....

It's only lunch and then a brief play in the playground - an hour in total, so I can see why we don't get to stay really. i might loiter outside though! Dd said today that she might be shy, and I told her that that was ok - she was v sweet bless her - excited but nervous too I think. I'm only worried about whether she'll eat the lunch that she chose from the menu - a quorn sausage hotdog . Might keep something with me in the car just in case she needs it on the way back to nursery.

CSWS, I did put "kind of" next to it. I didnt want to exclude anyone.
W still only makes a whole load of noise that only a genius, his mother, can recognise

Ladies. Leave your children alone. It makes it more traumatic for them if they see you there worried about them. It is the children of the crying mums who find it the hardest to go into school. Cry when they go round the corner by all means. Sorry if you think I am being hard but I am trying to help a little.
There is a boy in DD2 class, reception, his mum has made a fuss every day. Since September. Every day. This boy has to be dragged round the corner, while screaming for his mum. What does she do? Stands there all broken calling out to him!! She has an older dd is same school so not like she is new to it all. She can be heard all the time moaning about how horrible it is to see him being dragged.
Well yes it is but is the teacher supposed to stay in the playground all day with him while he has more mummy time?
I have asked some of the better mums, than me, the ones who go into class to help, and they all say that once he gets round the corner and into the reception playground he stops and carries on quite normal!
Only three weeks left until the summer hols. No more dragging for a while

Myjob. B is a lovely boy. Step back and see him from outside. He is a bright caring BOY. Boy being the important word. He will settle down once he gets to school.

Pepper are we on a high horse made for two?

Myjob. Treat it as an extra birthday pressie. The first day of a whole new life for B and for you. You get to concentrate on DD more and time for you.
Actually how did your interview go?I forgot to ask

Great idea, ronshar Let's do that! I'll bring you a M&S homemade cake csws.

I like your horse pepper and ronshar!
Also - I'm sure I won't be saying "when I was in school..." as I have been teaching in different schools for 10 years - since I was 21! ( at my age) and am aware of how much things have changed since then. I will have to refrain from comparing it to what I think it should be, though ... I think will be able to do that, as I've had many teachers' dc as well and know how it feels as a teacher on that side, too. I just hope Q gets a good teacher - disadvantage is that I know all of their strengths and weaknesses but have no say in which class he'll go into. Ah well, that's a while yet!

myjob yes how was the interview? Thanks for describing that. You've helped convince me to stay with one. Everything is easier. .

I have to go to a conference today 2pm-9pm , fri-sun 8am-5pm and mon 8am-1pm... blick. I don't want to go! It will be over soon I guess.

Will it be boring or interesting?

One of my best friends just had a 10lb 4 baby (no 3) at home this morning. Once my eyes stopped watering, I got really excited about cuddling a yummy newborn.

Parent's evening last night. Most parents were lovely. One mother seemed unhappy that we've increased the level of support for her child, as he's really struggling in many areas. I'm always reading on here about people complaining that their children aren't getting the support they need, so this seems rather ironic. Ho hum.

Hope the acupuncture's a success CSWS.

Off to make acourgette cake.

Glad that B enjoyed it myjob.
P had a lovely time, and didn't want to go back to nursery afterwards (which she loves) because she wanted to stay and play at her new school! She was actually the only visiting child there!!! The teacher thinks that there's another one going next week too. Apparently there will be 14 of them in September, then the rest of the 30 strong intake joining in Jan. Teacher said that she thought that dd would be fine, as she'd got stuck in and joined in fine. She was surprised/concerned that she hadn't eaten any pudding though. She had been offered jelly, yogurt, brownie and fresh fruit salad, and turned them all down. I confirmed that she's not much of a pudding person. Apparently she had some carrot sticks instead .

Aaah, glad to hear that B and P had such fun.
Star, glad to hear about your dh. That must be such a relief for you both. I hope he can enjoy his summer holiday now without that stress...

Erm.... HAve now forgotten all that I just read, bugger.... I'm useless at this!

We're starting the rounds of school visits as we'll have to make up our minds on school for dd by Xmas time (or thereabouts). Is it usual for a school to specify that you don't bring the kids? None of the schools we saw earlier (independent ones) nor the one we are seeing tomorrow (state) has specified this, but another state school has asked we don't bring the kids to our appt, I was a bit as surely its mainly down to whether they are happy at a school? Anyway, I've pointed out to them that though dd will be at pre-school, I no longer have any childcare for ds, and I'm not going out of my way to arrange it so they will just have to deal with it (can you tell I'm feeling stroppy today?!?!) .

oh that's lovely pistachio! People don't ask unless they know you like childbirth, right?

Yay for B and P's successful days!

Arguing doesn't sound nice.
I'm really enjoying the course, but really resentful that it's taking away from my time with Q. But, just tomorrow and sunday then monday is only a couple of hours and then it's DONE. It's really intense. 8am start 5.30pm end. 40 min lunch and a 5-8 min break every 2 hours for tea/fruit/cakes. I've met some cool people - it's for international educators so teachers from international schools all around the world are there with me, it's lovely as there's a girl in my group who is teaching in Japan right now and we loved our time teaching there.

Dh and Q will have some male bonding time tomorrow.
I have homework
While it is longer than a day of teaching and a 1.5 hour commute each way and really full on mentally, it's still not as mentally or physically exhausting as a day of teaching. So that's good!! I wouldn't want to commute into london each day, though. That is not fun at all. Smelly, crowded, yuck.

Get that baby out, csws, I want to see it! Ronshar - do you really pass me on your way??

Pistachio - she is, but it is an independent school. Dh wanted to make sure we looked at state schools too, he is Canadian and wanted to see both sides of the coin, hence why we are now looking at state infant schools (we looked at all the independent ones ages ago, but the state ones advised we wait till now). We went to one today and I think dh is happy with where we are so I doubt we'll move dd unless finances change....

Wow, that's quite a thing to be asked Pistachio. How lovely!

Any signs that the acupuncture's doing its thing CSWS?