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Friday, May 17, 2013

I e-mailed a friend at work today and got her out-of-office auto-reply, which stated that she'd be away from her desk until late March. I think it's her way of announcing the imminent birth of her baby. Which is surprising as I didn't even know she was pregnant. Although I had my suspicions...

Anyhoo, here's what she can expect in nine months time...


That's Toby heading out of the kitchen with the resigned look of someone who's just narrowly failed to corner Chloe by the tumble dryer. He's picking up speed every day though, so it's only a matter of time.

And as it happens, he's not the only one making good progress at the moment. We've received Amelie's 'Individual Monitoring Sheet' for this term from the nursery, which is basically a school report for the under-fives, and in addition to a detailed evaluation of her strengths and weaknesses (the latter being jam sandwiches), it includes this direct quote from the girl herself:


She always did make rubbish towers.

More worrying, however, is this...


Very open about her home life??? I find that slightly terrifying. It's a miracle we haven't had social services on our doorstep. Let's face it, the moment they saw Amelie's visual representation of our flat as some kind of crumbling hovel, and then heard about what goes on here, they must have been tempted to give her Esther Rantzen's phone number.

To be honest though, I think they have a lot of sympathy for us. Having spent seventeen months looking after Amelie for three afternoons a week at that nursery, her key-worker's final comment is this:


That smiley face speaks volumes.

4 comments:

Peter Chapman said...

Lisa's Facebook had the story quicker than you. Therefore I'm cancelling my subscription

Beckie said...

Very open about her home life - a chip off the old block then :)

Lisa said...

That made me laugh, Beckie

Phil's Mum said...

Do you think the school knows what's coming to them?