November Remember the Pushchair shed is HERE!!!!

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Oh i am so please we have left that old thread. Was a strange one but i feel hopefull that some old and new friends will come on for a chatt.

ooooh

Snow has bypassed us here, unless its still to come.
Gary Gritter been out though, hate all the crunching under your feet and buggy wheels.

typed a big long post and it didn't come up grrr!

Feeding time at the zoo here. Well just me and Erin as Tom had lunch at nursery!

Thats nice you'll be having girly lunches out soon bex! Tom has a hot meal doesn't he at Nursery that must be lovely in this weather. Tates school did trial on hot dinners last week was free. So tate had it, was so so suprised the amount of parents that turned their noses up, or said 'no he/she won't eat this/that/the other...' bloody well try it is my motto! If Tate had come home first day really not liking it i wouldn't have forced it. But he had a could go at every meal and enjoyed it. And sat with different people so good for him i reckon!!

Had a good mornings shopping, Got thermals for the boys and terry, pants for maxy , and a lego star wars top for my friends little boys bday. Slippers for grandad, and some cuffed jeans i've been stalking h&m for months for some of their lovely stripey tops and polo necks (wonder if luka will wear a polo neck ) so we are ready now for this cold snap!

Can I please just make one thing clear - Nicola is now not buying my pants for me - they are for JAMES

Nic I would love James to have school lunch. I am with you on the just try it thing, I could never have dreamed I would have a fussy eater as i am a stickler for eat what you're given and try everything. BUT he eats even less these days today he has eaten a potato cake, 2 clemintines and that's it!! It's not like he wants to stuff his face with crap instead...............sigh give up.

Well I've been running to the loo today nice though seem a bit better now. Cleaned my house to make me forget about it, ha!

at pants!!

will james eat more if he's helped make it? bought it etc?

nah, he always helps me cook! Loves it, puts it out on the plates and evrything and we have always all eaten togther - believe me ahve tried all sorts! He loved growing stuff in the garden too but wouldn't eat the bloody stuff! You may as well be giving him pure poison! To be fair he will try things

It's good that he tries

I am freezing! DS1 needed wellies so thought (in my wisdom) we would go to local shops as my mam looked at Asda today and they had none. SO we went into 4 shops!!! before finally finding a pair in Clarks, paid more than I wanted to but he needed them. Then went around Tesco and what is usually a 15 minute walk was 35 minutes through the snow.

DS3 is starting playgroup next week :( Not sure I want him to go. He has been before as a creche, but never as a playgroup peep. He does love it and has a few friends that are there. He'll be going 2 mornings, Tuesday and Friday.

aaah 5in it's hard isn't it? DH doesn't want James to go either mind you he has his wish as no places so prob won't go anywhere now til Sept Shame as he would love it and it would be free but I'm not sending him to a crap place for the sake of it. The local Private nursery seem to be forever walking the kids round Iceland

oh he'll love it 5in. The only wellies tom will wear are plain black or green dunlops from millets!!

maxy i can't believe you can't get a place for james seems crazy you may have to wait til sept..Luka goes to school in Sept11 and they are so close in age.

I know but Luka will be year above James as James one of the oldest and Luka one of the younger ones!
So his official school nursery year is not til next September. But I have a letter to send to admissions from the speech therapist, and you never know, someone might drop out. Mind you, it's a diff uniform at the speech unit so in a way it's good at least not buying two diff uniforms

DS1 has huge feet for his age. He is 7 with size 2 feet! He is gutted he can't get charater wellies like all his friends have, the Clarks ones are blue with a red sole and stripe at the back. DS2 now has his Hunters ones as still good.

Maxy, shame you can't get James into a playgroup. The one DS3 is going to was the same as DS1 went to and I know most of the staff.

oh they're so little to wear uniform aren't they? bless them. Luka (and most other non prep) nurseries here don't have them. you can optionally buy a sweatshirt but i couldn't be bothered washing/drying every day.

I suppose every area is different they seem to all start nursery here at age 2 or 2.5yr getting it free of course the term after their third birthday. I expect quite a few children don't start til then maybe? I probably just needed a rest from mine so they started early

Yeah, he can have a jumper or polo top, so might buy him a polo top as he is only there twice a week. It's 15 quid a week, so not too bad for 6 hours. He will be free once he is 3 though.

I am doing it for a rest as well as getting DS3 used to being without me as he is really clingy.

It's a school Nursery so they usualy do wear uniform? Can't make you though.

I could get him into the local pre school 5in but it is....... well it's shite basically then there is the private nursery. Other than that i will have to get on a bus and so not worth it for 3 hours and then it'll cost my day ticket everyday so then not free I would love a break, James 7-9pm everyday making all his funny noises is bloody wearing

Our crap preschool charge stupid money - £13 a session, in a shared scout hut with no outside play - no way in the world would we have paid to send him to that!!

£13 a session

The playgroup DS3 is going to go is attached to a school, and is less than 5 minutes walk from my house. I don;t lik the school though, my other two don't go there. DS3 will be going to the nursery attached to their school when he is old enough.

We don't have any nurseries attached to schools round here. One boys go to is church one then there's a coue others but lukas has a lovely outdoor space it's very lived in and the staff all lovely. Was a bit of a shock on my first ever visit as Tom had only ever gone to private nursery but once I'd overcome my snobbery realised how much boys would love it.

I have worked in too many private day nurseries

I know 5in, shocking isn't it? It's got bad reputation too, without me being all high and mighty

We'll see what happens anyway, but it's only 6 months worth of nursery place anyway and would rather keep him at home than send him to the wolves.

We did go to look at a preschool that will be a half hour walk for me each way, but the woman said to me "you will find he will just HAVE to talk when he comes here"

Oh she sounds lovely Maxy . I was lucky with DS2 in that the nursery he went to had a teacher who had previously worked with autistic children so she knew what to do. Ds2 went to a nursery near the ILs as I worked back then.

I am probably a school snob, there are three local school to me, one I can see from my living room window, and I refuse to send my kids there . Actually, the one I can see from my living room window is a religious school, but doesn't have a good SEN reputation, otherwise I'd probably move the kids there. Other than that, the school attached to DS3's nursery is not my cup of tea, although my sister did go to it.

God I do sound like a snob! But you just have to know my kids and the kind of kids that go to the schools to realise I'm not!

You're not a snob 5pm we just want them to have the nest start in life not all parents think that way sadly.

5pm!!!!

Pregnancy brain kicking in already Nicola? lol

Dh has changed job roles (been promoted) and he is now working a lot of 12-9 shifts :( I'm so bored on nights like this.