Booked our medicals YEAH :-)

Our GPs Practice has just rung - and both our medicals are booked for next Wednesday, that's much quicker than I thought we'd be able to do (and both on the same day - I thought we'd have to have one in a couple of weeks and the other a few weeks after that) :-) YEAH YEAH YEAH!! Just got to get hold of Mr Messy and check the date is ok with him - keeping my fingers crossed!! Update - IT IS OK :-) We can have our medicals, get all the forms filled in and signed and get them back to Local Authority's offices all in the same day :-) They will then send the paperwork back to DfES Recorded Delivery and hopefully we will be back on track then!!! Phew!!!

Little Prince had one of his friends round to play - which he was very excited about, he's been asking since 6.30 this morning was it time for his friend to arrive!! Was lovely to chat to friend's mum, unfortunately little friend wasn't very well and ended up nearly asleep on the sofa watching Cars on dvd, so they had to go home. I hope little friend gets better soon. Well it was almost time for Little Prince to have his lunch ready for nursery, so it wasn't too bad, they did at least get some time to play. Only got a short time at home now I've dropped Little Prince at nursery, as I'm back up at the Primary School helping with the cycling proficiency again - don't the weeks go by fast!! Well it was a windy day for riding bikes, but we didn't get anyone blown away PHEW :-) The kids seem to be picking it up really fast this time, we just need to work on minor things (sticking closer to the kerbs and positions at junctions - ok that's not so minor but at least they all know which side of the road to ride on!).

Spoke to Nursery teacher about Little Prince's homework too (yes HOMEWORK in nursery!!) he has brought home the class cuddly toy in a bag with a camera and a book. He has to take some pictures of cuddly, and draw & write in the book. He is an amazingly bright little lad (can recognise letters and numbers, starting to string letters together in proto reading, has an amazingly wide vocabulary) but he doesn't like writing/drawing. He has only just started to draw recognisable faces - not got to bodies/arms/legs stage yet. He can only just 'write' if he is writing over the top of something pre-written for him. This 'homework' was way beyond his capabilities. Teacher already knew of his difficulties/resistance to writing/drawing and it is noted in his records. But she said he will have to learn to write/draw, he can't do all his schoolwork on a computer word processor - so he has to produce something. Fair enough - but each page in cuddly toy's is labelled with the relevant child's name and I'm not sure I want all the other parents to know/see that Little Prince is having difficulties in this area. I'm not ashamed of him in any way - but why should EVERYONE have to know??? Anyway we sat down together tonight after the parents evening, and managed to get a drawing of cuddly toy's face and to write the toy's name over one that I'd already written. It will have to be enough - I'm not prepared to do battle over this at FOUR and put him off/make him feel inadequate!!!

Went to Drama Teen's parents evening and all her teachers were pleased with her work and attitude (she's very polite) - one even said its kids like her that are the reason they are in teaching :-) I don't care if that is a standard, keep parents happy phrase - its good to hear :-) Her form tutor, however, has noticed that Drama Teen won't push herself and is capable of a lot more than she is presently giving (which is a concern of ours too) so she is going to circulate a message to all subject teachers asking them to push Drama Teen a little harder so that she actually works to her abilities and not let her carry on coasting. English teacher said one of the 'problems' was that Drama Teen is sat with a good friend during lessons and can get easily distracted with chattering - so she will be moved to sit next to a boy who is also coasting. Drama Teen has been very, very upset with this decision all evening and has had quite a few bouts of tears about it. Me and Mr Messy are in the bad books too as we agreed with English teacher and didn't argue about Drama Teen being split from her friend. Oh well I'm her mum not her best friend - and I have to strive to do what's best for her, not necessarily what she wants!! A mother's place is in the wrong :-( And I know that she knows that we love her to bits - whether she wants to acknowledge that at the moment or not!!