Oh dear I wondered where all the questions were leading to. Today when I picked up the toddler from his afternoon with grandad I was greeted with knowing smiles and the comment that '.... says that he's going to get 'another me!' is there anything you want to tell me?'.
It all started a few days ago. That annoying Lelly Kelly shoe advert was on - you know the one with the badly dubbed little girls jumping up and down in sparkly shoes and slathering on greasy make-up.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXqyg7p_ow
He's always been taken with that - I think it is the make up as a favourite activity with grandma is putting on lipgloss! Anyway he's got it now that those she's are 'for girls' so he can't have them - so he's come up with a cunning plan.
Toddler: Mummy we need to get a girl so she can have those shoes because I want them but they are 'for girls'
Me: well it doesn't quite work like that. Mummy and daddy will try but you don't always know what you are going to get.
Toddler: well you need to get a girl.
Me: well we'll try but we might get a girl or a boy or even another you!
(tickle fight ensues)
Two days ago:
Toddler: Mummy who made me?
Hubbie: snigger and raised eyebrow followed by low chuckle as he made a rapid exit.
Me: (while thinking eek what do I say? God? special cuddles? gooseberry bushes?)
Mummy and daddy (said with absolute certainty).
Toddler seemed satisfied and continued to eat his dinner.
Reported conversation with grandad today.
Toddler: grandad, mummy and daddy are getting another me.
Grandad: what a little brother or sister?
toddler: NO! Another ME - but a girl so I can have some Lelly Kelly shoes ...
Ooh dear ..
Thursday 20 March 2008
This house is full of ....
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Though it is slowly getting cleared because 'The in-laws are coming, the in-laws are coming, ...'
Sunday 16 March 2008
Park-gate
I'm involved in a local branch of a national parenting support group. Until recently I was very involved until one member took it upon herself to launch a one-woman smear campaign and recently I've been shoved out and left in the cold. I decided at the end of last year to not let this get to me any longer - but it's hard. It has helped me find out who my friends are and cemented some of these friendships but sometimes the hostility is so blatant!
Yesterday I found out a local park were holding an Easter egg hunt at the weekend so posted the information on our eGroup.
Me: the xxxxx park are holding an Easter egg hunt on Sat and Sun 11-2pm £2 entry - Cadbury's are donating the eggs.
New member: ooh we'd like to do that - probably on the Sunday.
Know-it-all mum: We went last year, it was a really hot day and lots of people were there. We enjoyed the trail then our son (8 year old) ran ahead to get his prize and that was the last we saw of him for nearly an hour. I was going frantic and the park staff struggled to mount a search as it was busy. Though he had sensibly gone back to the car to wait for us. I would strongly recommend people bear our experience in mind before deciding whether to attend.
Me: (trying to inject a bit of humor) yes it was very busy - 4,000 people visited that weekend. We lost my mother in law but unfortunately she found us so we're trying again this year. Don't think the weather is expected to be quite as hot this year so it shouldn't be as busy.
New Member: Oh thanks for that information xxxxxx (KIAM) we won't be going now.
AAARRRGGHH! As the majority of the people reading on the eGroup do not have children over 3 they are hardly likely to let their child 'run ahead'. Though I am sympathetic with her distress last year I can't help the feeling that if anyone else had 'mentioned' the egg hunt she wouldn't have been so quick to put a dampener on it. Hmm this could be brewing to something big.
Yesterday I found out a local park were holding an Easter egg hunt at the weekend so posted the information on our eGroup.
Me: the xxxxx park are holding an Easter egg hunt on Sat and Sun 11-2pm £2 entry - Cadbury's are donating the eggs.
New member: ooh we'd like to do that - probably on the Sunday.
Know-it-all mum: We went last year, it was a really hot day and lots of people were there. We enjoyed the trail then our son (8 year old) ran ahead to get his prize and that was the last we saw of him for nearly an hour. I was going frantic and the park staff struggled to mount a search as it was busy. Though he had sensibly gone back to the car to wait for us. I would strongly recommend people bear our experience in mind before deciding whether to attend.
Me: (trying to inject a bit of humor) yes it was very busy - 4,000 people visited that weekend. We lost my mother in law but unfortunately she found us so we're trying again this year. Don't think the weather is expected to be quite as hot this year so it shouldn't be as busy.
New Member: Oh thanks for that information xxxxxx (KIAM) we won't be going now.
AAARRRGGHH! As the majority of the people reading on the eGroup do not have children over 3 they are hardly likely to let their child 'run ahead'. Though I am sympathetic with her distress last year I can't help the feeling that if anyone else had 'mentioned' the egg hunt she wouldn't have been so quick to put a dampener on it. Hmm this could be brewing to something big.
Friday 14 March 2008
What does whining get you?
The naughty step has become my friend over the last couple of weeks as we've been trying to reset the boundaries and undo all of daddy's spoiling tactics whilst we were away.
We've also managed to kick the last habit of babyhood - the dummy! To the delight of my friend the speech therapist - unfortunately her foreboding that children who use dummies past 6 months are sure to have speech problems was always proved wrong whenever DS opened his mouth as he spoke early, clearly and frequently. He baffles me sometimes with the things he comes out with. During the period of giving up dummy he was rewarded with various 'prizes' - for example when he now asks for it we can simply say 'but you had your Windmill for your Thomas set, do you want to take that back to the Giraffe shop?' and the whining usually stops.
Usually. Today we've had whinging and whining from the end of nursery - from the second we appeared at the door he was asking for cakes/sweets/gingerbread men. Finally my OH exploded - 'What does whining get you?' in his scariest voice - to which the reply was a angelic smile and 'food!'
Wrapped around his little finger? Of course.
We've also managed to kick the last habit of babyhood - the dummy! To the delight of my friend the speech therapist - unfortunately her foreboding that children who use dummies past 6 months are sure to have speech problems was always proved wrong whenever DS opened his mouth as he spoke early, clearly and frequently. He baffles me sometimes with the things he comes out with. During the period of giving up dummy he was rewarded with various 'prizes' - for example when he now asks for it we can simply say 'but you had your Windmill for your Thomas set, do you want to take that back to the Giraffe shop?' and the whining usually stops.
Usually. Today we've had whinging and whining from the end of nursery - from the second we appeared at the door he was asking for cakes/sweets/gingerbread men. Finally my OH exploded - 'What does whining get you?' in his scariest voice - to which the reply was a angelic smile and 'food!'
Wrapped around his little finger? Of course.
Sunday 2 March 2008
Why? Why would they do that?
Had a pretty strenuous day to day with several trips to the naughty step (and to the edge of reason for me).
What we needed was a air of calm to the close of the day. A meal he was sure to eat and then a wind down to the bedtime routine.
There is one, one, sure fire dish to be eaten without complaint, eaten in full and it is requested at least daily. Macaroni cheese.
Now this is not as easy as it sounds. No restaurant version will do, neither will mummy's (or even daddy's - which is usually much better) home made version, Heinz tinned variety doesn't even make it off the shelf. No it must be a supermarket ready meal - and out of the many supermarkets only one (and it's specialist kids range) will do.
So today I wearily headed to the freezer, pulled out the familiar box - noted that the child on the front had changed, but thought nothing of it and bunged the ready meal in the oven.
40 minutes later my world was shattered! Why oh why oh why did they do it? On what planet was it deemed sensible? Who were the customer panel and why did they approve it?
Our one 'safe' dish of comforting pasta in a cheese sauce has been polluted, violated, with .... broccoli! Broccoli! Arguably every child in the country's LEAST favourite vegetable - the sort of vegetable that other supermarkets have claimed to have 'hidden' in their mash.
My son loves his macaroni cheese (or maca chease as he calls it) and probably would have still eaten it with peas or even carrots added into the sauce but broccoli met with flat refusal.
I can see their sales are going to go down quite dramatically (if only from us).
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
What we needed was a air of calm to the close of the day. A meal he was sure to eat and then a wind down to the bedtime routine.
There is one, one, sure fire dish to be eaten without complaint, eaten in full and it is requested at least daily. Macaroni cheese.
Now this is not as easy as it sounds. No restaurant version will do, neither will mummy's (or even daddy's - which is usually much better) home made version, Heinz tinned variety doesn't even make it off the shelf. No it must be a supermarket ready meal - and out of the many supermarkets only one (and it's specialist kids range) will do.
So today I wearily headed to the freezer, pulled out the familiar box - noted that the child on the front had changed, but thought nothing of it and bunged the ready meal in the oven.
40 minutes later my world was shattered! Why oh why oh why did they do it? On what planet was it deemed sensible? Who were the customer panel and why did they approve it?
Our one 'safe' dish of comforting pasta in a cheese sauce has been polluted, violated, with .... broccoli! Broccoli! Arguably every child in the country's LEAST favourite vegetable - the sort of vegetable that other supermarkets have claimed to have 'hidden' in their mash.
My son loves his macaroni cheese (or maca chease as he calls it) and probably would have still eaten it with peas or even carrots added into the sauce but broccoli met with flat refusal.
I can see their sales are going to go down quite dramatically (if only from us).
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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