And before we got there, I managed to do two loads of washing and the washing up!
Big is recognising more and more numbers, although we have some extreme creativity in reading them. Today she was discussing speed limits, and spotting the numbers on the signs. I think that something has obviously clicked for her, but I don’t know what it is.
This afternoon we were at the first Sheffield muddlepuddle group. Well, today it was a muddlepuddle group, although apparently we might have to go under the EO umbrella so that we are insured. What do other ppl do about that? Lots of familiar faces, in fact I *think* I’d met everyone who was there, including Barbara’s friend from NCT! Many of them on the blogring too, so be interesting to see what everyone blogs about it 😉
My children seemed to thoroughly enjoy it, although I was a bit stressed by the noise level, which was high throughout. It’s a wooden floor, with nothing to damp it down iykwim. Big played with E, and was pleased to see Lani as well. I was a bit cross with her when she refused point blank to play with a little boy because he was a boy, and no boys allowed though 🙁 There were lots of smaller children there too, but Small pretty much ignored them all and just played with an assortment of cars.
After the group, we popped off to Aldi, to grab a few more bits and pieces to see us through the week. They do have a slightly different range to Lidl, including tagliatelli, so that was good.
Home, tea, bath, bed…well, for Big anyway. Small has only just keeled over, after some time with each of us trying to get him to go down earlier. But he was processing something, and had to fill an exceedingly stinky nappy first. I’m beginning to think he’s having some sort of reaction to tomatoes – it was pizza for tea last night, and I didn’t think that that would have caused any problems, but it didn’t look good. Perhaps I’ll try skipping them for a bit, I’ve already cut out beans and spaghetti to see if I can head off these problems.
Right, time to get on with some work. Oh, almost forgot. Big came over to me tonight and said “Bumpy. b is the first sound in bumpy” and we haven’t even done that one yet!
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5 responses to “a muddlepuddle group.”
Lani comes out with the boy thing too … and it boils my blood!
ooh, noise on wooden floor – I completely empathise!! One of those things I guess – although maybe you could get round it by getting some playmats of one sort or another?
It sounds like it will be a great group – can’t believe the hall costs so little! And it’s nice that you’re all at the setting up stage together, so you can really thrash out what everyone wants from it and how to best achieve it (Jules & I will be taking notes for the possibility of the new group here, lol!).
Big is really coming together with her reading Jax. Perhaps once she is really reading (and hopefully enjoying doing so) you will feel more relaxed because I know it is something you are passionate about yourself. As you know all I want is for someone to talk to and for them to talk back which isn’t quite happening yet. But once LC does do it I will be able to kick all those periferals (sp) into touch like the SALT and any Consultants so that we can just get on with our lives.
We do ours under the umbrella of eo (organise it on the local list etc) but call ourselves mp to differentiate the age group thing. I’ll have to look into insurance…
Yep, that’s the sort of thing I envisaged too, Merry. Once we know what we’re doing and how we’re doing it, I’d be more than happy for it to be listed in the EO newsletter.
Re noise – have to say that I didn’t notice the wooden floor. It’s quite a soft wooden floor as they go, I think. It was the shrieking that I found worse!