MSE Parents Club Part 14

Buttonmoons

Lol Krystal, I dread the day I have to pay for her. I haven't seen inspectors on the buses in years! She has a chubby baby face though, I'm sure I can blag it a bit longer. My mum still says ellie is 4 even though she is 7 in Dec! :rotfl:

Thanks for those Ideas Susan! We don't have a video player (nor a working TV at the mo ) but she does like movies. Was going to get her new paints/playdough/pens/crayons and maybe new chalks for her easel, just for the stocking. I would get her more dress up but she kinda has all the dresses bar a few, though she would like new shoes, don't buy those plastic 4 in a pack set type things that cost £15, they break within a week!

You have any game reccomendations Susan? Recently bought her hungry hippos which she is enjoys but I'd like something a bit more mentally challenging for her, and also I should get her new snap card sets as hers have all got lost

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

I weighed and measured Keira this morning, she's 2stone 8 now and 3ft 5. So she has grown an inch since I last measured her, 2months ago? My mum and other people tell me she is small, but she musn't be if she is that height? Some woman on the bus asked me if she was 2!! Keira got really irate and told her that No, she was actually 4, because didn't she see she has long long long hair? Babies don't have long long hair you know!

I would look in Alice's red book but it's missing at the moment but I'm sure that can't be far off average for her age. Alice is an inch smaller and people usually assume she is older than she is. Last December someone commented on her not being in school when we were out for a walk.

Actually that reminds me: Does anyone know where I can get pretty patterned tights bigger than age 5-6? Alice's are almost too small for her but when I looked Tesco/Sainsbury's only had "school" tights and ASDA only has the pretty patterned ones up to 5-6.

Buttonmoons

Yeah Im not sure what average is for a girl of 4 Susan!

Also - H&M for tights, more expensive though, and I'd maybe take them out the pack for a look first as I bought two different packets with different patterns, both age 4-6, one fit fine with a bit of excess material, the other one I could pull past her shoulders :rotfl:

bexta

Susan, I like Alice's logic on both counts, although can see why potty multi tasking isn't the best. :rotfl:

Buttons, do you have a Wilkinsons near you? They've got those big plastic under bed boxes for less than a fiver.

Can't remember who was after Very Hungry Caterpillar baby clothes after seeing Smartie's beautiful Daisy, but Mr S has loads of them in at the moment.

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

You have any game reccomendations Susan? Recently bought her hungry hippos which she is enjoys but I'd like something a bit more mentally challenging for her, and also I should get her new snap card sets as hers have all got lost

Anything which involves identifying/matching/counting shapes/colours/leters/words/pictures and anything simple enough which involves turn taking.
Alice has:

• dominoes
• various sets of cards for playing pairs/snap etc. (some just have pictures, some also have words or letters and some are number ones)
• magnetic fishing
• Rainbow Towers
• Colorama
• Shopping basket game (similar to this one) - OH plays a game with her eache vening and she almost always chooses this one
• Pooh's Heffalump game (which is effectively a fancy WTP themed version of snakes and ladders)
• "Coconut Shy" (Which is six wooden things you pile up and then throw two bean bags at them)
• various word/picture matching jigsawy type things

We also have Mousie mousie, Junior Scrabble and a maths game in the "future presents box". Magnetic letters/numbers are also good. Alice actually uses them as letters now instead of "food" for her toys.

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Also - H&M for tights, more expensive though, and I'd maybe take them out the pack for a look first as I bought two different packets with different patterns, both age 4-6, one fit fine with a bit of excess material, the other one I could pull past her shoulders :rotfl:

:eek: Just a bit of a difference there then. I was thinking I'd take a pair of her current tights with me for comparison.

SugarSpun

Thank you very much, 3, I wanted a red suit for Christmas/Christmas night, but gutted that apparently some bastage outbid me on the boots.

I tried to add postage and it wouldn't let me *confused* - can I send you anything German?

Buttonmoons

Thanks for the list Susan. I will deffo check most of those out. I'd like her to be able to try and start learning to read herself, or at least recognize the alphabet letters (no issue reciting the song) She has no problem with numbers though, and can add and subtract with the aid of fingers, maybe she will be a math genius

I have tried to teach her to spell her name but tbh it looks like hieroglyphics, plus she is left handed so draws everything from the bottom rather than the top so looks a bit squiffy, lol.

Krystaltips

You can send me German things Sugar

Argh, Aimee has made friends with some girls in yr5... It's all very sweet and everything, but so far they give her lollipops and biscuits every day and tonight she has come home with a toy rabbit (and accesories!) and 2 puppy in my pocket dogs "to borrow" until Friday... I absolutely never let her take toys into school because I know she'll mess with them or lose them, plus it's not really appropriate... I don't know what to do about this...

3onitsway

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

No, I have never been but have heard really good reports. My NCT group always invite me as they have a fortnightly visit.

Two weekly play at the Yellow Sub is on Friday 24 Sept from 10am till noon. The Yellow Sub is a giant indoor soft play area with a separate area for under- and over-3s. The NCT has agreed a special rate of £2 per playing child (you dont need to be a NCT member).

It could be a very MSE visit! :cool:;)

xx

Oh goody - so if we say we with the NCT we'll get in for £2? :j

Mazcabs wrote: »

:think: I thought the date on them was November 2010?

Oh no, i'll have to eat them then.

One can go in L's birthday hamper. After me making hampers last christmas for Mum & Mil, L decided that she wants one for her birthday.

SugarSpun wrote: »

Thank you very much, 3, I wanted a red suit for Christmas/Christmas night, but gutted that apparently some bastage outbid me on the boots.

I tried to add postage and it wouldn't let me *confused* - can I send you anything German?

I can't think of anything German I could want or need! In fact, the only thing I can think of that is German at the moment is the dodgy foreign sausage OH is keen on! :eek::rotfl:
(PIL was in the Army so OH spent most of his formative years in Germany so has some strange tastes).