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Trish - good to see we are keeping you out of mischief! LOL
Arte - oh I just spotted your sig - Scientist, Artist, Adventurer! I love it.
Well ladies I am very excitingly going up to the school in about half an hour to sign Missy E up! . They have kindly included her in the sibling category even though H is not longer technically at the school, so we don't have to go through the whole interview thing again. I have been trying to talk to E more about school and what happens there because she's deadset against going at this stage . I'm going to see what we can do about some extra visits over and above the 2 x orientations they normally do. Next year will be here in no time!!
Are anyone's kidlets starting big kids school this year?
MD, I was just thinking about school before I logged on! W is starting when he turns 5. He is stressing out about it already lol, but I think once he does some school visits and sees what it is like then he will be fine. We are quite lucky because our kindy is next door to the school and they do a series of visits in the term prior to the kids starting over there. And if everything goes ahead with the move to town we will be only two houses away
My biggest concern is the uniform and shoes/socks. If he likes them then no issue, but if he doesn't like them/feel comfortable in them then I am going to have a massive battle every day . He has managed to wear long sleeved tee's and pants nearly every day of summer 'cos he still won't wear the new shorts and tee's I got for him!
Arte, Maybe include the uniform as part of his preparation for school? Once he sees that all the other kids are wearing the exact same thing he might not be too bad with it?
MD it will be next year for big school for A. The don't do enrollments till 3rd term when they have their open day and in term 4 they do their orientation program which is two half days and then 2 full days over 4 weeks. I'm thinking he'll be fine at this stage, but getting him to go on the bus might be tricky. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks I can convince him to go on the bus to preschool.
hi girlies
long time no speak sorry! yes trill is fabulous and we got along famously. i think the icing on the cake would've been if A could've been there too cos we decided that L and A would've been great old mates.
school- arrg! don't freak me out already!!! yes L is going next year. he is going to the local school which is about 5 mins drive from our house. his best mate is going there and i would say about 80% of his kinder class will go there too. apparently on orientation day they simply walk them across the paddock between the kinder and the school and the kinder teacher even hangs around for the day to help them settle in! he has also been there a few times to pick up his best mate's older brother who is currently in grade 2 so is familiar with the environment. he is really excited about it and always asks me when he can go there. i tell him to stop growing up so fast!!!!
Awwww all this school talk is making me teary!!!! Our kids are getting....BIG! like, school-aged BIG. faarrrr ouuuuutt!
Miss L will start next year. We have orientation in October and for L it cant come fast enough lol. We live basically diagonally opposite the school and it's about 5 minute walk away (so we get to go past almost every day lol). her neighbour friend goes there and the majority of her new kinder friends will also be going there. I hope that it will help her feel ok about it all. TBH i dont have any real concerns...i know that it will suit her to a tee (she loves order lol).
MD: do they do school tours? that can be a good way for Miss E to get a feel. go to a few lol. and bribe her with hot chocolate 'date' with you afterwards...positive association and all that jazz lol
Arte: oh yeah, the new clothes thing lol. I reckon bite the bullet: buy his uniform now and slowly work it up into his wardrobe that way, it wont be new by the time he goes lol!
G: I tell that to L as well lol. I find that her whole demeanour and shape and face etc have changed and grown so so much in the last few months, it's mind boggling.
AFM: all good here. we had our first wintery day! i even wore a scarf! it might of been overkill, but hey, make hay while the sun shines isnt that right Trill We will get th car! yay! pity that i cant bring it home with us lol.
not much to report really. We are trucking along nicely, I am enjoying the spoils of a good Aussie $ and cheap US clothes, the girls are in their groove now and have a nice little routine happening (which generally involves, playing for 5 minutes, screaming at each other for 1 minute, whinging at my feet about what the other did to the other for 20 minutes, followed by 'can we have a snack/watch tv/eat hello kitty jellybeans/OR all of the above lol).
Big school next year, I presume we will be like Trill and there will be something for enrolment Term 3 and then orientations in Term 4. Our local is less than 5 minutes walk away and we go pretty often as K likes playing at their playground. At this stage I doubt she will know anyone there. Most of her daycare friends are going to the Catholic School and those that aren't are likely going to the public school in town. Oh well, she'll make new friends I'm sure.
MD - I didn't make DH get the stool sample on Valentine's Day. The packet is still sitting in the bathroom - she did one yesterday while I was at the gym and he forgot! Chance is gone until next week now though as we are heading up to Canberra for my sister's bridal shower tomorrow after preschool. I'm not that desperate to get a sample to carry it interstate with me!
MD, Erin was an adventurer when she was little, rolling and wriggling all over the place but since she started sitting she now just sits on her butt all day - perhaps I should change my sig to The Bureaucrat.
Cass, slipping clothes in won't work with W. I am just hoping that he will be alright because everyone else is wearing it.
More sugar musing - I didn't stop eating sugar when I was BF Amelia because she didn't get grumpy and reflux but she was a chronic catnapper and stayed up to 10-11pm every night. Today I gave in and ate a couple of pieces of brownie and E was hard to get to sleep, didn't sleep for long during the day and then stayed up until 10pm. Coincidence?
I have talked to DH and I am going to trial a very low sugar diet for the kids (specifically W). I noticed today that he was tantrum central after having a couple of pieces of that evil but delicious brownie. Will see how behavior goes this next week...
Hi girls! Sorry have been Mia and hope you all still love me, lol
I'll just jump on in bc how could I possibly catch up
Arte the sugar thing will be interesting - I reckon you are onto something
I know mu boys generally have much worse nights on the days they are with my ILs!
Trill - I am so sad I didn't see you when you were here. Hopefully next time it will work out. Sounds like you had an awesome time.
G how goes the moving plans?
Cass - loving your updates.
Hi to everyone else
Afm all is well. Dh is back on Saturday after 2 weeks.. Has been a hardnjuggling act but all ok. Boys are great - j is pretty much toilet trained - it was quite easy as he just decided and off we went! Has some days w accidents but most with none.
Noah is getting so grown up- loving 4yo kinder. Yep he is starting prep next yr - but obi he is already at the school so no concerns ther. He just walks upstairs and puts on a uniform (which he is so excited for)
Better go - am so exhausting - single parenting plus full time work = total exhaustion (to top it off I went to syd for a
Presentation on Tuesday!)
Will try to keep up
X
All this talk about school makes me sad. L is loving pre-prep and is one of the more out going kids and a real leader (according to his teachers). I think he will love school. Not sure where he will go yet, just one of the local ones though. Z started daycare one day a week 3 weeks ago, we had a few tears in the morning last week but doesn't want to come home at pick up. She is toilet trained now (day time) which is great, she was even accident free at CC last week and it was the first time I sent her in undies.
Arte we reduced sugar when L was having lots of meltdowns and it seemed to help.
Oz! Nah, we're here...and prolly will be til the cows come home LOL. That's fantastic that L is thriving, I'm sure he'll do well settling into school as well. Yay for TTing Miss Z , and I'm glad she's taking to CC ok.
MP, yes of course we still love you! Sounds like you as just every bit as busy as usual. Any news on the "developments" front?
Arte, it will be interesting to see what happens when you cut down on the sugar. Chocolate can be very stimulating by itself, nice combo of food chemicals, caffeine and then add sugar too. LOL at the Bureaucrat.
Cally how did the bridal shower go? How exciting! When's the actual wedding?
Cass, I'm a bit confused about your mention of school? I thought you were heading to bella Italia for the remainder of the year(?) so how does school orientation etc fit into that? LOL at the girls' routine.
There is an open day up at the school in a couple of weeks, but that's the only one for the year. The teachers go down to the kindy to observe the kids before they settle on the class placement (ie they take what they observe into account in the class design). The kids do 2 x half a day orientations in the class with the teacher who will be their teacher next year, and there's an option for another day as well if she needs it. The lady I saw suggested doing a social story book (with pictures of the school uniform, bag, details about what will happen at school, etc) so that's a good idea. I'm sure she'll come around to the idea after I wear her down over a whole year LOL.
Yep I was wondering about school for miss l too - how will that work cass??? Is your house rented out? I am having dilemmas re our house ATM
On ten developments front...we are still thinking about a move oseas - to Singapore or hong kong. Depends on an opp for dh which we are Persuing. Timing depends on my work too - not loving what I am doing but in the running for a great role and If tat hAppens I will do that for a year at least...sorry nkt being more specific.. Lots of balls in the Air will let you know as soon as anything eier way firms up
Dh should be landing soon - was meant to be this morning but he was delayed...not happy about that
MP, I would be very unimpressed if DH was more than a minute late after two weeks away! Good luck with the job and everything - hope it all turns out well.
Oz, WTG on the toilet training! That is awesome! Still a mile away with A.
MD, the schema book is a good idea. Perhaps I should make one for W to take some of the uncertainty out of the whole thing.
Busy day painting and gardening. My brother and his girlfriend came up and helped which was great
MP: we have sorta rented the place out. but to friends who are paying a small amount to cover rates and insurance only as our dog and 2 cats were part of the deal lol. bit of bummer about that as we could get good rent for the place. ah well!
MD: we are heading back earlier (leaving italia september). only because we are finding LA boring as bat poo (overall...some things are cool, but not enough to carry us much further...i guess it is good in a way in that we are no longer viewing it as an option to live...even if we could get a lovely house in beverly hills lol).
Bridal shower yesterday, wedding on 2 March. The motivation to eat well and do lots of exercise went out the window with DH getting back to work and having minimal time to myself so I think a pair of suck me in undies will be on the cards! Have been doing lots of practice of my heels at work - 8cm high, a bit different to my usual steel caps.....
Oz and G - what's happening on the moving fronts?
Arte - will have to keep an eye on sugar intake versus behaviour for Miss K. Might explain some of the strange meltdowns we get.
K had her ENT appt today - she still has very red and swollen ears. She's on antibiotics and is having another hearing test in a month. If there isn't a big improvement, we'll have to do the grommets. Annoyingly, the specialist we saw today can't actually operate down the coast (issues with the private hospital and a number of specialists) so we'd have to go to Sydney or see someone else in Canberra. So I'll try and get a Canberra appointment for a couple of weeks after her hearing test - at least we have somewhere to stay there and it's not as far away as Sydney!
Cally, I wonder if her funky ears might explain some of the tummy stuff she had happening? I hope she doesn't need the grommets but if she does it sounds like you have a plan.
Babies Born ~ September 2007 #70
. They have kindly included her in the sibling category even though H is not longer technically at the school, so we don't have to go through the whole interview thing again. I have been trying to talk to E more about school and what happens there because she's deadset against going at this stage
. I'm going to see what we can do about some extra visits over and above the 2 x orientations they normally do. Next year will be here in no time!!
. He has managed to wear long sleeved tee's and pants nearly every day of summer 'cos he still won't wear the new shorts and tee's I got for him!
, and I'm glad she's taking to CC ok. 
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