Jesus Lives in our bathroom….
14 Apr 2010 1 Comment
in children, Day to day stuff, Family, funny, Funny stuff, humour, Imagination, kids, update Tags: bathroom, children, funny, jack, jesus, nemm
During the holidays Jack was in the bathroom getting his face washed and his teeth brushed (Not really washing the bathroom from ceiling to floor and covering everything in water… Honest!)
Anyway I could hear him chuntering away to himself about various things that 4 year olds talk to themselves about. Five minutes or so later he marches straight through into the middle room walkes over to Luke and says:
“Luke Derner! (complete with pointing finger) I have been talking to Jesus and he says I have got to tell you to be quiet because you are giving me a headache!”
Poor old Luke didnt know what to say. He’d been sat playing really nicely on his own up tll that point and looked quite perturbed to be getting a telling off from jesus for something he hadnt even done lol.
So there you go… We have Jesus in our bathroom!
Its been a while!
06 Oct 2008 2 Comments
in children, Day to day stuff, Family, kids, Kids having fun, Milestones, Random thoughts, toddlers, updates Tags: credit crunch, jack, kids, Luke, nemma, nursery, pre school, toddlers, update, work
Whats been happening in the Derner household?
Well Jacks started nursery in a morning. He loves it, but STILL hasnt stopped crying when I leave him in a morning. I think its more for my benefit than actually not liking school. He’s happy enough once Ive left him for a couple of minutes and is really excited and tells me what he’s been up to when I pick him up. He’s been invited to a couple of party’s too so Im hoping he starts to settle soon.
I think one of the problems is the noise levels, its really loud in there (As its bound to be with lots of pre school kids running round) and he doesnt cope well when theres lots of background noise. Its because of his glue ear I think. Which brings me nicely onto the next update.
I took him for a hearing test last week and the Doctor finally cottoned onto the fact that Jacks not actually hearing the noises during the tests half the time, he’s just reacting in the way he’s expected to. He does a test where he has some spinning top shaped discs and he has to tap them against a machine and then when he hears the noise he puts the disc in a box. Ive said the last few times that he’s just putting the disc in the box because he knows thats whats expected of him, not because he can hear the noise every time.
They’ve tried a different test on him this time and its proven how low his hearing is. The doctor has decided to send him for a consultation with the Ear nose and throat surgeon to see about having gromits fitted. Im hoping that this does the trick and that it makes things easier for him. His speech has caught up a lot but I still feel that his hearing affects his day to day life. Especially now in nursery as he cant always hear what his teachers are saying to him and when we visit places like play centres he is a bit overwhelmed at first because of the amount of noise. I dont think people realise how much Glue ear can affect kids and thier behaviour, and dont realise how much it can slow thier development down.
Luke has started pre school, I had nightmares about him screaming the place down when I left him BUT he’s been the complete opposite. He’s settled in really well. He loves going to big boy school and wanders off as soon as we get in there to play and doesnt bat an eyelid when I tell him Im going. I honestly think its because he goes with children he’s grown up going to groups with and its in the same room as all the playgroups we go to with the same staff. He’s picking things up quickly like where to hang his coat and what to do with his coat tag etc. Basically Im really proud of the way he’s coped. After expecting the worst possible scenario he’s made us proud! He’s definately getting more independant. Its only 2 hours a week but its definately worth taking him!
In other news I’ve got a new job. After five years of working on and off at the cricket club Ive been offered another job at a local pub closer to home for more money with gaurenteed hours and they are a bit more sociable hours too. Im not getting in at 1 and 2 o clock in the morning and Im working four nights a week instead of 5. Its early days yet but Im enjoying it. I miss the club though, but more for the people I work with and the regular customers than the work itself. Its different I suppose waitressing but I’ll get used to it in time.
Karls still working hard. He’s bought a comressor recently and has started respraying bits and bobs for people and seems to be enjoying himself. The window tinting side of things has slowed down considerably this year, but thats down to the credit crunch I think. Everyone we know with thier own businesses has said the same thing. People just cant afford to spend money on luxarys for thier cars!
Thats about it I think. Not much been happening, we’re all getting used to things changing so havent really had the time to do much else!
Here’s some recent photo’s
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- My New Nephew Jovi.
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- Jack supervising Daddy and Uncle Blane fixing Daddys brakes last week.
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- Mean and Moody Luke.
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- Blue tongue!
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- “My got a blue tongue too Mummy!”
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- I love this picture!
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- Chillaxing
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- We’re having a duvet day….
Drayton Manor Park – Thomas Land!!!!!
07 Sep 2008 1 Comment
in Family, fun, Funny stuff, Kids having fun Tags: Days out, days out with toddlers, drayton Manor Park, Family, jack, Luke, nemma, Rollercoaster, thomas Land, zoo
As we’re both off this week we decided to take the kids to Drayton Manor Park for the day so we could have a look at Thomas Lnd and take the kids to see the animals.
Even though it was chucking it down we enjoyed every minute! The kids were amazed by all the thomas themed rides and Luke had a really close encounter with a tiger! They even managed to get me on a rollercoaster! lol (Ok, so it was a kids one, but it still went really fast! lol)
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- All Covered up and ready for the rain!
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- Luke meets a tiger!
They do an offer during the week in term time meaning that toddlers and a parent get in for £14, so it cost us £28 for all four of us to go. Normally the tickets cost £23 each for an adult so it was a bargain!!!!!!!
Would totally recommend the place to anyone who has thomas mad kids like us. we all really enjoyed our day!
Highlights were the tourblesome trucks rollercoaster, the animals, the boat ride in thomas land, and the Pirates adventure (A boat ride through different pirate scenes with a bit of a flume and water splash, I got soaked and had to walk back to the car with a wet through bum!)
Robin Hood and the Pirates…..
06 Aug 2008 2 Comments
in Days out, Family, fun, Imagination, kids, Kids having fun, toddlers Tags: children, day out, edwinstowe, festival, jack, kids, Luke, nemma, nottinghamshire, robin hood
One of the boys favourite films at the minute is the Disney version of Robin Hood. Luckily we live near to Edwinstowe (Where the major Oak is, Robin Hoods “Home”) It takes us about 30 minutes or so from here to get there and this last week it was the annual robin hood festival.
If anyone lives near Nottinghamshire they should definitely try and get to this event with Kids. Its Brilliant!!!!
The boys absolutely loved it, we watched puppets, spent hours looking for Robin Hood (only to run away as soon as we saw him), bought the obligatory Robin Hood Hats, had a picnic in the restaurant at the visitors centre, watched musicians wandering round performing and Jack even had a run in with a dragon! (I think this was the highlight of the day!) We unfortunately missed the jousting display as were too busy trying to carry all the money Jack had pinched from the bank (Don’t think he quite got the whole idea as he even pretended to get it out the hole in the wall lol)
The boys went dressed up, Jack has a peter pan outfit that we adapted slightly and made him look like Robin Hood, and Luke went as Robin Hoods Pirate friend!
Pirate Luke
He was enjoying himself until Mummy got the camera out!
We had a brilliant day. Parking was a bit of a nightmare as the parking stewards didnt seem to know exactly what to do with such a huge amount of cars, but other than that we had a brilliant time. If anyone is considering going next year then I would recommend giving yourself the full day there and taking a picnic!
Heres the info for this years festival so you can see the sorts of things going on.
Daddys got a new Pootan…..
07 Jul 2008 1 Comment
in Day to day stuff, Family, fun, Funny stuff, Kids having fun, toys Tags: children, funny photo, jack, kids, laptop, nemma, newcomputer
What do you think? Karl was setting his new laptop up tonight and Jack decided he needed to play with his pootan…….
Picture update….
13 May 2008 Leave a Comment
in Day to day stuff, Family, fun, Kids having fun, update Tags: children playing, Family, jack, Luke, nemma, sun, update, weather
Been so busy recently its unreal.
Cant really do a full update but here are some recent pics.
You can get the general gist of whats been going on from them.
Went to Mum and Dads van last week for a couple of days. Karl stayed at home and me and the kids went with a friend and her little girl.
Other than that not much to tell really. Weathers been gorgeous so we’ve been out and about as much as possible. The kids are virtually living in thier UV sunsuits. So much easier than having to try and wrestle them to put sun tan cream on every hour or so!
The Pictures of Jack and his grandad were taken while they were testing out the new wii fitness board. Jack wanted to join in so he had a “Jack Board” made from an argos catalogue! lol. He thought it was brilliant because he could do the same as Grandad!
Jacks New Bike….
04 Apr 2008 3 Comments
in Day to day stuff, Days out, Family, fun, Funny stuff, humour, kids, Kids having fun, toys Tags: bike, Imagination, invisible, jack, kids, toddler, toys, vivid imagination
What do you think?????
Here he is sitting on it. Its one we found as we were walking home from taking the dog for a walk yesterday….
Its very noisy, goes very slowly up hills, apparently gets very dirty and only goes faster when you promise some easter egg when you get home. It also makes revving noises constantly, gets filled up with petrol in Jacks bedroom at night and sleeps in his bed with him.
I got told off for sitting on it by mistake yesterday too lol
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