Tuesday 13/02/2007: Jack thinks Salami is Lama, and we are trying to explain the difference but he is not having it.........Also yesterday we put him to bed and he would not go to sleep, so Gareth went in for the third time to tell him off for singing and jodling. He must have heard him approaching the door because when he got into his room he was sat on the bed with his legs crossed his eyes shut and his fingers in his ears repeating over and over again "Don't shout daddy I am not listening....."
Friday 19/01/2007 The morning starts fantastic with all of us running around with our normal getting ready routine. Gareth goes into the Jack's nursery bag to check that he has a set of clean clothes and finds his nursery report. Aaaaww..... Jack's very first report. We open it with huge enthusiasm and we are greeted with the following;
Jack is by far the most energetic boy in the whole pre-school. He is bright and very loving,although sometimes his energy can be a problem. He always wants to play and be moving,and does not have enough patience to even participate in song time,which is an active time. He is a sweet boy and tidies up well. When we ask him to apologize to someone, he does. We just can not get him still even when we are changing his shoes to go outside. Jack is lovely and all the teachers like him,he just has trouble cooperating. Even though he doesn't listen to lessons there is no doubt he is soaking up information like a sponge. He talks well in English and is picking up Hungarian very quickly,without being thought in Hungarian. He just seems to understand what the other kids are saying in Hungarian and repeats it. Jack gets on well with the other kids except for one girl who has caught his habit of hitting,we are trying to teach both of them that hitting anyone is wrong. Jack is staying out in the garden longer and having lunch with the big kids. This has improved sleeping time a lot,and Jack is already making friends with the other kids he plays with, When he wakes up in the afternoon he is a lot more cooperative and friendly.
Oh my god we have produced a monster, was my first thoughts this morning after reading this, I quote the first line "Jack is by far the most energetic boy!!!!!!" and my next favourite "Jack gets on well with the other kids except for one girl who has caught his habit of hitting," HIS habit of HITTING?????????? I was completely mortified when I read this and I am already looking forward to school. I will probably be one of those parents that receive a phone call at least once a week "Mrs Tracey? we have your son again in the headmasters office, can you please come and pick him up?"
Oh well what can I say ? He didn't come with a instruction manual, it's just obvious that we are failing dramatically as parents........That was until I confided in some more experienced parents which just laughed at me and my concerns and told me to stop focusing on the negative and look at all his positive feedback. And it is true he is the most beautiful little man I have ever met
Thursday 18/01/2007 There is wake up calls and there is wake up calls. We currently have a guest staying with us, and he is occupying Jack's bedroom. So Jack is sleeping in a spear bed that we have bought and is placed in our bedroom with us. This morning I woke up with Jack being sat nicely on my head with a cold wet soggy nappy singing nursery rhymes, minding his own business as you do!!!!!
Sunday 14/01/2007 So we are out and about doing family stuff and pushing Jack down Vaci Utca in his pushchair Jack is singing and mummy and daddy are talking. Out of the blue Jack screams out " Mummy, daddy shut up! I am singing"
Saturday 13/01/2007 Gareth was flicking through the Hungarian channels on our TV when he finally found some sport. It was handball Norwegian v. Hungarian woman Handball. Jack was playing in the living room, and when the TV eventually caught his attention he stops up looks very thoughtful for a few seconds and then blurts out " Oh.... MY GOD!, Daddy !!!! they are doing it wrong" referring to the fact that they where holding the ball and not kicking it.
Friday 12/01/2007 Jack was carefully slipping his pennies into his money bank and when he had ran out of pennies he shouts "Can I please have some more money! " Gareth replies "No, Jack there is no more pennies" "But, Daddy I need some" "Well you will have to go out and get a job" So he looks at me and daddy, puts is head on the side looking very thoughtful for about 3 seconds and replies very chirpy "Okay" "me Jack go to work, bye,bye"
Saturday 06/01/2007. So Me and Jack are at Budapest Zoo looking and learning about all the animals. In the zoo they also have a farm section where they keep pigs, horses and a rather large and old cow........Jack is fascinated by the cow which at this point is trying to lick Jack's face. At the same moment the cow lifts his tail up and starts to pee, Jack at this moment nearly falls over with amazement and his huge big blue eyes are nearly popping out of his round face, in the next second the cow starts doing it's number two business and at this point Jack nearly passes out. And with no warning he stomps off to the zoo keeper starts pulling his top and shouts frantically and with a complete panic in his voice "Excuse me, excuse me you need to change his nappy, it is going every where and the cow is dirty"
Tuesday 02/01/2007
"What you do'in daddy"
" I am trying to get the shutter down"
" ohh.........."
(a few seconds pass....)
"Is it stuck,daddy"
"Looks like it"
" Ohh............give it a good bang, daddy"
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