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nanee nanee nanee nanee

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 08:38

I told ds1 on Monday that if he was really good I would buy him a pasty for lunch today.

Since 5.30 am this morning 'nanee nanee nanee nanee' ad infinitum.

Early lunch today I think. He doesn't understand that 'being good' includes not saying pasty repeatedly.

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silverfrog · 28/07/2010 08:47

Oh I feel your pain.

We are having a picnic today. Dd1 has been telling me this since 6 this morning. It's only in the garden, but I did say yesterday that she could have sandwiches in the garden for lunch today....

God only knows how long I'll last before I crack. I predict lunch by 10am at this rate

Mind you, that will only move her on to pestering for tea...

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 09:06

on a serious note iprompts (app) is really good. You can set the coutdown for hours and I keep referring ds1 to it. 'go and look at the clock'.

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Al1son · 28/07/2010 09:07

We have a man who brings a van round with fresh fish on Mondays, except that this week he was coming on Tuesday instead. I was woken at 6.00am yesterday just to make sure I remembered!

BriocheDoree · 28/07/2010 09:08

We are coming to England on Monday. Today at 9 a.m. the kids were all ready with teddies in hand, putting their shoes on. Trying to explain that we are not going for another 5 days...
Anyway SaintlyDMrsT, just think back to the times when you were desperate for him to say something, anything...
That's what I tell myself after the umpteenth repetition of "Father Christmas has got a beard" or "They got green paint on the red light" or any of the other current favourites!

silverfrog · 28/07/2010 09:38

agree iprompts is good. I stopped using the countdown because dd1 would just turn it off. maybe I should revisit.

mind you, dd2 is a pro now - so she'd probably reset it or something . the collusion between the two of them is something else, honestly.

brioche - have you tried crossing squares off on a calendar, for the timetable aspect? very sweet of them to be there on the doormat with their teddies, though

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 09:39

True true although most things are 'nanee'

lol @ 6am for the fish man.

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5inthebed · 28/07/2010 09:44

It's 09:43, never too early for a pasty

DS2 is stopping over at his grandads tonight (so we can take his bed down for the move tomorrow) and it is all I've heard all week!

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 09:45

My parents had it bad recently. They'd looked after the boys while dh and I had been in Germany. They'd told the boys we'd be back a tea time but our train crashed (!!!) on the way home. So they had nearly six hours of mummy mummy mummy (his one proper word- nice- but not for six hours!)

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5inthebed · 28/07/2010 09:49

Your train crashed

DS2 is currenty saying "10 more mimits til grandads". He's been saying that since Monday

Marne · 28/07/2010 10:39

Lol, i realy fancy a pasty now .

Dd1 always ask's 'how long until....' when we are going somewhere, if i say '5 minutes' she will start counting, if i'm one second out i am in trouble. I have now explained that when mummy says '5 minutes' she actualy means 'in a little while' so now when i say '5 minutes' she now says 'do you mean the real 5 minutes or mummy's 5 minutes' .

Dd2 repeats 'what do u want' over and over when she wants something, if i say 'no' she carys on saying it until i ask her what she wants and i get her the item.

BriocheDoree · 28/07/2010 11:52

I'd love a pasty 'coz I can't get them in France!!
Next week I am going to be eating fish and chips and baked beans and stuff and my (culturally French) kids will be staring at me like I'm nuts!!

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 20:32

yep train crashed into a tree -pic on profile or better one here. We were very lucky not to derail, I thought we might at the time, but we were on quite a high embankment so it would have been nasty.

DS1 was very excited by his pasty!

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 28/07/2010 20:34

It wasn't a 2 hour standstill though. We were 4 hours on the tracks then pulled into Westbury - which was 10 miles away - at 10 mph - walking speed over points. So 5 hours before we got to Westbury. Then people waited ages for free food in the cafe.

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anonandlikeit · 28/07/2010 21:14

DS2 asks constantly "what time it is, what time it is, what it is?"
He has no concept of length of time so I don't get it at all, tried teaching him the clock, not a clue!
So we get the constant "what time it is?"

Maybe he has got a hot date, who knows?

Saintly, I could get excited about a pasty too

Ineed2 · 29/07/2010 16:41

We thought being able to tell the time might help...but NOOO because now we have to live by the clock, yesterday Dd3 who hadn't had breakfast till 10 bounced in to the kitchen at exactly 12oclock and said "it's lunchtime". I tried to explain that she had only had breakfast 2 hours ago, but to no avail she was definatly going to starve if she didn't have her lunch right at that moment. Ho hum!!
Oh and like marnes daughter, if anyone says in a minute, she counts to 60 and than says thats it a minutes gone. LOL. Don't you just love them.

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