MSE Parents Club Part 16

pigpen

Mine never played with happyland either.. we have boxes of the infernal stuff... hhmmm.. ebay? They love duplo and the fisherprice little people and teasets! Dressing up.. they all have bit of a fetish. they love the drawing boards.. magnadoodle type things, drawing but not colouring books.

They also never played with dolls, cars, stickle bricks, board games or much else.

I want the cbeebies blobs on loop.. Squeak loves those!

I am thinking we need a bigger slide.. we just have the little tykes baby one and I need to rehome/bin loads of the garden toys.

Becles

CL wrote: »

I was in Co. Durham once Beccles and the landscape is just like here. Looks like we get the same weather too. I was in Bishop Aukland and it was so pretty.

I'm about 45 mins north of Bishop Auckland. I'm right on the northern edge County Durham.

Jenny - Charlotte has liked role play toys the best. They've all been played with loads. She's got a mini kitchen from ELC, plus a dinner set and assorted food items. Another year she got a till and a shopping basket, so we can also play shops or cafes with it all now

http://www.elc.co.uk/Mini-Sizzlin%27-Kitchen/118424,default,pd.html

Just heard her shouting the boys because they don't want to play Barbie's with her :rotfl:

Charlotte has never really been into the TV at all. I've tried to get her to watch Disney films, like Finding Nemo and Toy Story but she sits for a few minutes, then she's up and off again!

delain

We have a huge slide, takes up most of the garden

We didn't get the house. Alas, the landlords thought 6 people in a three bed house was too many.

Becles

Sorry to hear that delain. It's a bit of a naff reason to say no as it's not really overcrowded with 6 in three bed home.

Charlotte said "Dad, you've got really big fingers. Will you be taking them on holiday?" :rotfl:

She's been playing out loads these holidays and has made some new friends. They were all out digging a hole and making mud pies on the grass verge. Easy pleased

delain

Here they seem to all think it's too many!

Even my nan said we should move to a 4 bed, because we totally have the £1,000+ per month that costs round here.

There's one locally which is £950, No pets, no smokers (fair enough) no children under 10, suit retired couple :eek: do retired couples really spend that much to rent a 4 bed house for two people?!

ETA: Did she say why she thought he may go without his fingers?

Becles

Got absolutely no idea what prompted the fingers question. I worry about how her mind works sometimes!

I didn't realise renting was so expensive

My parents are semi-retired and live in a 4 bed house. They have the biggest bedroom, then they have two spare bedrooms. They use them when my brother, SIL and niece visit or when my lot stop over. The smallest bedroom is used as a home office.

delain

Becles wrote: »

Got absolutely no idea what prompted the fingers question. I worry about how her mind works sometimes!

I didn't realise renting was so expensive

My parents are semi-retired and live in a 4 bed house. They have the biggest bedroom, then they have two spare bedrooms. They use them when my brother, SIL and niece visit or when my lot stop over. The smallest bedroom is used as a home office.

It's expensive here because we're in a tourist area, or close to it.

It's not even so much the money it's the condtions on perfectly average houses. Every day on rightmove I see:

No HB/No pets/No smokers/no more than two children/no children under 10/ no children at all.

Drives me batty.

There is nothing else on Rightmove in my village at all now.

I'm seriously considering asking my landlord if he wants to buy a bigger house for me because if he does I'll not have to move again for years:rotfl:

It's a great age she's at. She sounds like the fantastic little Karen from Outnumbered.

Squeak likes music, I have music TV on in the day, she seems to like a silly song called 'Ravers in the UK' :eek: she gets all excited and does mini but it's such a chav song I can't show her off doing it to anyone:rotfl:

pigpen

Delain.. i am sorry to hear you didn't get the house.. but that must mean there is another better one waiting for you! Mad the landlord says a 3 bed is not big enough.. housing benefit wouldn't pay extra on a 4 for you because you are supposed to have 2 children in each room... quite odd! Either way.. fingers crossed something comes up soon for you! xx

Becles

Morning

Hope a new house comes along shortly delain. It's a shame when you are settled there but can't find anything suitable. I'm really settled here and would be absolutely devastated if I had to move

Charlotte likes music too. The boys listen to RnB and chart stuff and she knows the words to loads of songs. She kept singing "Who's that Chick?" yesterday and I've got it stuck in my head now - grrrrr!

My parents are having a new conservatory built and she was playing in their garden last week. Apparently the builders were absolutely ill laughing at her chuntering on. Her poor dolly got read the riot act - "your behaviour is totally unacceptable, and you'll be getting no sweets after your tea" - and she was doing an Incy Wincy Spider rap for them :rotfl:

Off to work this morning with some jobs to do.

Hope everyone has a good day xx

MERFE

morning all

sorry about the house delain, def worth asking if your landlord is thinking about another house. Mine was but didn't tell us till the day we moved out as it was something that was gonna be in like 18 months, I wish she had said because we would have waited she was a fab landlady. Mind I do love this house though and I went and saw some right dogs of houses in our price range, tiny hovels of 3 bed houses, I refused to move till I found something I really liked and it was worth it in the end but it took years. Hope you don't have to wait so long x

Apparently DS is going to be bringing the classroom bear home this weekend so gonna have to plan some interesting things to do followed by grandmas on monday to print off the photos. I've ordered everything for DS birthday too, doing bouncy castle in the back garden dinosaur theme, hope the weather cheers up a bit, just need to decide what time to have the party now - I'd like it to fit well with Bobs routine but I think asking everyone to come at 9am or after 7pm might be a bit much lol I'm thinking if its 12-2 Bob shouls be asleep for most of that? Then I can do loads of sandwiches for the kids as well.