**Daily Chat Thread Mon 21 Dec 08**

Legacy_user

Morning everyone, been a while since I started one of these! Ive got to look after a 2 year old on my own today :eek: any tips? Have a good day. Len x

GunJack

ey up

2-y-o ?? errrmmm...been a while since ours were quite that small....stories, ceebeebies, etc. ?!?!?

Have a good day all

schoolrunmum

Morning Len- how are you today?
Two year old hey? Well it's been a whle since mine were tiny, but plenty of DVDs or CBBC channel, colouring stuff, lego type stuff always went down well with mine..can you go out to a park or somewhere?Feed the ducks?Whatever you do hope it goes well....I am supposed to be going Xmas shopping with DH (who hasn't done any yet!) but he came off a motorbike yesterday(still thinks he's 25!) and is complaining he thinks he's broken a rib! I think it's a ploy by him to get me to do his shopping-well I've finished mine, and if he thinks I'm going out alone to buy for his family (and ME!) he's wrong!!!!

System

Im ok thanks, a bit ropey after mi booze. Hey dont be too hard on hubby, he may have broken a rib. I think you should wait on him and be there for every whim

schoolrunmum

Ha-like he was for me when I broke 2 last year? NOT!!!!! I still had to do EVERYTHING while he swanned off to Barbados for work....I couldn't even drive Len...

sallyx

Morning All

Len I would suggest you head to the playpark, take a football and some bread to feed the ducks. Guessing he still has a nap in the day? Actually he probably doesn't at 2, don't think my DD did that often at 2. How about making some christmas cookies with him, painting or making some decorations. Or if you're feeling lazy like me stick Cbeebies on and that will keep him entertained Im sure
Have fun Len

Off to work in a moment then I have a List of what I need to do this afternoon (waitrose, post office, butchers, put holly & ivy up and make mincepies)

Can't quite believe its Christmas on Thursday
Have a good day everyone

GunJack

awww...pretend to play the sympathy card, whilst all along plot how you can make him suffer even more

penguin83

Morning all - just off to work in a minute and kids off to nursery/holiday club. Still got loads to do but in work between now and christmas - arrggh!

Len, good luck for today! Hope everyone has a good day, see you all later xx

cat4772

Morning all

It'll be a while before i have a two year old to entertain but when I entertained my neices and nephews it usually involved the baking and decoration of shortbread, bicuits and cakes as well as painting a picture or five and then lots of TV / Films. I'd then hand back an over-stimulated, sugar overloaded, fractious child to the parents at the end of the day!

SRM - Good luck with the christmas shopping. Wayne knows that I'll happily buy presents for his family ONLY if he's with me at the time and after four years ago when he had to buy them all on Christmas Eve because he thought I was bluffing he's always willing to come shopping with me, especially as I go in October before the shops become manic.

Buffythedebtslayer

morning I over slept!

but I must of needed it I guess!

Martin Amis is right idiot and one of the presents I got my Sis doesn't look as good as I thought it would.

but must get to work so will see you all later

Good luck with the boy Len, I bet he has a fab time with his Dad xxxx

Burlesque_Babe

morning - have a lovely time with your lad Len, I think the park and the ducks is the best choice, I love seeing the kids feeding the ducks in the park when I'm down there with Charlie.

I'm getting geared up for a confrontation _pale_ - it's OH Christmas meal in Bournemouth tonight and last year he got VERY sh~tty with me when I wouldn't go back and get him at 2.30 on an icy night. I'm already getting worked up about the drive there because of how much I hate driving, he hasn't said he wants a lift, but I know he will! I am not going to go and get him at 2 or 3 tomorrow morning though - I have work at 8.30 in the morning and I don't see why I should get up in the night and drive across Poole and Bournemouth.

Anyway, off to get this TV in a minute. Weirdly, OH doesn't want me to go with him to get it I said I would need to go as I'm the buyer and he said 'but you'll have to sit in the back of the car on the way back as the TV will be on the front seat - why do you need to come?'