So should the Friday night thread start today?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

And can it start now !

And my 4yr old is happily and quietly sitting on the toilet and playing with a pair of scissors, - should I intervene?

erm,

why?

and

why ? (the sitting on the toilet playing with scissors, not why should you intervene! )

It's bank holiday eve, so it is really a Friday after all, and, - I think ds got the scissors from a higher shelf and just likes to make them snip I guess.

No harm yet....

not technically a bank holiday tomorrow, is it?

Oh, I thought it was technically a BH.

But surely wine is allowed all the same!?

nah, Monday is the BH, surely?

wine always allowed

AFAIK Good Friday is not categorised as a bank holiday but a public holiday. Means the same though, as almost everyone who would have the Monday off will automatically have the Friday off too.

Okay, so the point is (And surely this is the most important one really) can we drink wine before 6pm?

You can drink whenever you like star[bugrin].

Hope your LO didn't do anything drastic with the scissors.

Its a funny coupld of weeks isn't it with all these bank hols and public hols. I don't even know or care what day it is.

I am definatly eating chocolate later, I am knakered and Dd3 is sending me round the bend[bugrin].

I'm sat here really pissed off with DH who I expected home at lunchtime today, as his work gives them Maundy Thursday afternoon off. But he went down the pub instead. As he did last night, (except that was planned.) So AIBU to be a bit disgruntled?

But seriously, hope everyone has a nice long weekend.

nope ellen YANBU, I would be too.

and def fine for wine! I will be partaking myself. I have my mother in law to stay for Easter, she is lovely, but I have been cleaning and cooking, trying to get my marking done, dh has been away for a couple of days at his mums, just come back. I am knackered!!!!

(after a weekend of scotsmen last week) (having them to stay, not anything else. ) I am looking forward to a quieter week.

Altho ds did some music stuff this week and loved it, behaved like a little star!

anyway ds to bed in a min and I can hear the sound of the corkscrew

justa - have you read "can't eat, won't eat"?

it is mostly about extreme non-eaters, but it has some useful things in it, and is full of stuff form people who really do know what it is like.

well done ds1 though - that is fab!

at wrong sort of cornflakes - dd2 said exactly that about the cereal on holiday... she said the cornflake sin America were "too crunchy" , and when we were packing to go home said "it will be nice to go home again, mummy, and have normal cornflakes again"

the one thing that dd1's useless ASd pre-school did well was the food programme (mind you, I'm not sure how successful it was at getting the children to eat different foods, but they did a fantastic programme of touch/smell/taste/paint with/ply with etc)

we used ot get all sorts of art home - onion prints as well as potato prints, actually painting with various berries etc.

lots of the sensory play was with eg grated apple or mashed banana - working on boht OT skills and sensory issues in one fell swoop.

Thanks guys for the tips about books. I will get on to Amazon about it. DS is terrible with food and it is such a miserable existence trying to persuade him to try something else. His diet has become progressively more limited - hot dogs, a bit of pasta and....er crisps. Makes you feel like such a bad mummy [busad]

Yet, he will try stuff in school dinners he will never eat at home (e.g. roast potatoes) because they 'taste different at school' apparently [buhmm]

This then has a knock on effect on DS2 (5) who starts to copy DS1's funny habits.

Can't bear the thought of returning to school and the battles to gte DS' statement implemented next week. Issued in Jan, he still doesn't have half the provision in it, and yet I'm made to feel like the bully for the poor, under resourced LA.

I've had a bit of an epihany though this week, as, sick and tired of being dragged to pointless mettings with useless professionals to argue about needs/provision on the way to Tribunal, I've decided they can offer more or stick it and fight about it at Tribunal. I'm sick of wasting my time with them and playing their game.

Itdoes make you despair doesn't it. I hate the constant;

ME: what would you like for lunch?

DS: I don't know what have you got?

ME - listing lots of choices

DS: whinging and crying - I don't like any of them

ME: Well you asked what I had but you'll only eat hotdogs

DS: Can I have hotdogs?

Repeat twice a day, 7 days a week......

evening all we spent the afternoon at the park with auntevil and her lovely boys and had a great time, so I'm now knackered and not partaking of this evening

hope you enjoyed your star

DS2 has a really small, fussy appetite and he's very active, bordering on hyperactive, therefore skinny, bordering on underweight. He won't even finish a hotdog, although he does like them! Maybe I should try some of the books recommended. Currently I've resorted to Complan 4 times a week, just to stop him losing weight. Oh well. [bugrin]

BTW my unreasonable DH is now comatose on the sofa. [buangry]