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Mutrik Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread made me smile! I have the delight of > putting triplet 2.5 year olds to bed. Oh GOD! I think I'd need gin before embarking on that!!

EDmummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It doesn't ever get easier just different! Hmm yes I do know this - temporarily forgotten in the heat of toddler rage! I think about a year ago my two were good at bedtime and I got it down to a 35min operation. Now more demanding...especially on a work day when I get home knackered at 6.30 - but at least they sleep generally!! BB - I know - and congratulations btw - heard your news - life's about to get a whole lot more complicated for you, yes?!?

Although consistently naughty/cheeky eldest didn't really have tantrums I don't think (but was in new baby fog whe he was the same age as youngest is now, so maybe he did?!). It's very tedious to have a small furious cross thing screaming about everything...

We have just got a 10 ft - not put up yet due to crappy weather - got that size mostly because I found the bigger they are the more likely they are to have a higher weight limit on them - if we have to havea trampoline I'm going to have a go on it!!!! I think 8/10 ft absolutely fine for most gardens!

Moan alert. It's just taken me over an hour to get a 4 and a 2 year old to bed. 4 yr old has always been fairly lively but actually not so bad at bedtime (apart from still being completely HOPELESS at sorting himself out/getting dressed etc) but OH MY the 2 yr old has started tantruming like the best of tv advert 2 year olds. NO! no bath! NO! Dont want to get out of the bath! NO pyjamas! NO nappy! MORE stories! Wanna play! WAIL!!! Gah. edited for typos

My two (2 and nearly 4) like this one...https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/maths-age-3-5/id471864743?mt=8

I had a friend who used this http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80123993/ ikea bed as bunkbeds - with bottom mattress on the floor - good as not too high for the top one and no falling out for the bottom one!

Any inspiration here :-) http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,953244,953244#msg-953244

I think the Phil and teds dot is one of the smallest/narrowest...

Fantastic. The only day of the year that my two sleep until 8am. Feels like a lie in!

Has anyone found a good phonics app? Endless alphabet is fun but is in capital letters and quite complicated words!!

This - http://www.bestbuggy.co.uk/category/single/babyzen-yoyo/ But not cheap!!

Here's a link to a petition if anyone feels like signing... http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44382

I think we paid that - seems to be pretty standard. I was happy with using an agency as they had interviewed all the nannies they put forward, only sent me cv's of nannies within my budget and quoted salaries as a gross figure rather than the ridiculous net figures that some nannies use. It was all very easy and painless and the agancy also deals with emergency/temporary nannies so felt that was good to have the details as a backup too.

We've taken our Phil and teds often - they ask at check in whether its a 1 or 2 part pram - which suggests a bugaboo type frame and carrycot is cool too. Not sure re car seats, we hire them usually.

Just to resurrect this - I have to be missing something with this leap pad business. On the strength of these recommendations we got one for our ipad loving youngest son - but where are the games already on it? And he's not really into the stylus thing? And no rechargable batteries - they seem to last 5 minutes. Argh!!

I've just been given memebership for my birthday - looking forward to exploring the delights of kent with it this year. Where do people recommend - and where has adventure playgrounds?!?

Having a brace was what stopped me sucking my thumb at age 11 (although I did realise it was socially not really great in public/during the day before that!). I had a removable brace on my top teeth and just couldn't manage it at all. After a couple of miserable nights got over it though. My boys at 2 and nearly 4 are both big thumb suckers. I just haven't got the energy to tackle it right now....

We got our just about to turn 4 yr old the micro - the slightly bigger version - it's exactly the same height at its lowest setting as the mini and a bit sturdier...younger brother inherited the mini micro (we were having scooter wars). It's still his preferred method of transport and gets quite cross when I suggest a bike...

'Lotta' is def translated - we loved it as children - to the point that we named our new puppy Lotta!! Now I have 2 super hero/power ranger obsessed boys...hmm...I'll get it for them! ('Though - one of youngest's fave books currently is 'The Night Pirates' - a whole crew of rough, tough little girl pirates stealing a load of treasure :-))

Really? We have the ikea one and although good value, I think it's a bit flimsy....obv my boys are ruffians....

Oldest snowboarder is the same - sturdy and hardly ever ill - I think we will have to do sandwiches - dairylea only - yum....

Fuschia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ...At the age of 4 he would eat > only about 10 things and they had to be EXACT and > not touching (particular shape of pasta, no sauce, > particular type of veggy sausage etc, one of a > small list of approved veg... It's like the 'your child will eventually sleep' posts though isn't it?!? I kind of want to believe it but can't...Both mine are fussy as you like. We have about 5/6 (max) meals on rotation. I'm at the stage where I consider pesto a form of vegetable and chips are new on the menu. My nearly 4 yr old is as above and it drives me MAD - mainly because I love food of all types!! What do people do about school lunches with fussy ones? Oldest due to start school in september - I've seen the weekly menus, he will literally eat nothing (and the peer pressure/eating in company thing - it makes hi way worse not better). Do you give in and do sandwiches, or go for the 'if he's starving he may eat' philosophy? (Potatoes are you only worry??? phew...)

We have generic pirate costume - small snowboarder is going as captain buckleboots...

sillywoman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nice carpets:) but maybe not for much longer....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-21640807 I have visited - just once - on a pilgrimage to the River Cottage a couple of years ago. I have to say I thought the town itself, whilst attractive, was totally depressing in terms of shops/cafes etc! My in laws live near Exeter and we love visiting that part of Devon - I could definitely live there....my husband claims he can't work there though. Bee - we live in a village in kent and my little boy will only be 1 of 12 in reception next year if he goes to the village school - I thought that was extreme!!