Starlight! you had that baby yet?

[DameHermione]

Ducks and runs...........

Anyone else remember Mary Poppouts?

Think I'm too bored to even MN today.

Nothing. No signs. One feint moment of daftly feeling something that made me wonder for a second if my period was coming, and nothing more since.

Silly baby!

No news since first thing this morning. Is that good news do you think?

Yay!

Ds' current skill he is practising is how to crack eggs. Every frigging day I find a bowl with an egg cracked in it

I worried at the expense until I realised that as OT toys go, eggs were fairly cheap!

Well done mini zzzzz

DS is currently mastering making wraps.

dollop brown sauce.......dollop tomato sauce............then lettuce ONLY lettuce

Hes made 4 today lol

Star I would boil a few and see the surprise on his face then bless him

I am very impressed at all these cullinary skills. My ds is still working on pouring water out the water filter and actually getting it into, rather than over, his cup. He's getting there though.

ds can't pour either!

have to get some project going in the garden so he can practice.

Same here my kitchen floor is the cleanest in the house with the amount of mopping!

One useful fine motor practice I have been doing is giving ds scissors and 3 gigantic bushes/trees to trim away on lol saves me doing it!

I'm thinking we need to go back a stage to a smaller jug, shorter in height with less liquid to flood spill.

Just been informed he is going to have to make his own lunches every day on his residential trip in September - so need to start practising that with him around about, er ..... now. This is a child who at 10 still can't cut his own food up and uses the spear and gnaw method of eating instead. He uses caring cutlery at home, but there's no way he'd let us send it with him. Add in the complication of him not being able to share the spread etc with the other kids due to gluten contamination and it could be a recipe for disaster!

Just sat in the meeting about the trip with him and noticed how far his peers have come on this year and how different he is to them all now. That said, I also noticed how kind and supportive they all were with him, which was lovely to see. One girl offered to sit with him because his best friend couldn't attend the meeting and then offered to move when his friend turned up halfway through. She even feigned interest in his DS game as well, bless her.

Coff, don't get me started on scissors - ds decided to remove all the cards from his Beast Quest books with my kitchen scissors this week - poor books. I bought him some child safety scissors at Ikea the next day and now have lessons planned (again) for the summer holidays.

I expect baby is waiting for Fathers Day to make an entrance

Agh, just read my notes and the form I filled in detailing Ds' assisted birth, and seen it has been reinterpreted as 'spontaneous vaginal delivery'!

Okay, the way he was 'assisted' was poor practice but it wasn't even their pct, why have they denied my experience?

Royally pissed off now.

Spontaneous labour, right? Vaginal, yes. Normal, no.
Think just someone being dozy and/or a drop-down menu slip.

Midwives mostly conspire against obstetricians (and sometimes against each other, obviously). The anaesthetists conspire against the midwives, the neonatal nurses frighten everyone, the paediatricians just stir it all up. And they all hate GPs, lab staff and porters.

Ask any antenatal teacher

Lol maria that did make me laugh!!!!

Feel a bit better now as a decent MN mw responded when I mentioned it elsewhere!

Looks like it is going to be a nice today, pool party at yours?

Count me in!