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Cambridge Mummy on… best friends being parted by going to school

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Here are two best friends. They are also known as a Daddy and soon to be 4 year old son. Or Lovely Bloke and W. But there’s a problem looming. All too soon, they are going to be separated for hours at a time, when W starts big school, in September. He goes to pre school nearly every day, but that’s not the same in our minds. It’s optional, not obligatory. Lovely Bloke and W get to do stuff together, like going to Waitrose on a Friday morning, doing the shopping and having a milk and cake together in the cafe. I hear that it’s all very civilised, until W decides he’s bored of it and says “right, lets go”…

And even before big school happens, E 0r BIG E, as I’m referring to him, will be home from school for the summer. This will be great in itself – lots of adventures and opportunities for playing for all three of them. But right now, he’s at school 9am – 3pm ish and it means that lovely as E finishing school will be, it’s also going to mean that Lovely Bloke and W will have even less time together, for their pootling around, doing jobs, getting into trouble and having fun when they think no one is looking.

So right now they are on countdown, and I don’t think either of them have realised it yet. I don’t like how sad they will be when they do realise. So for now, I’ll treasure these photos of them sticking “bugs” on each other’s noses, boobs, bums and arms. Which ones do you think W did?

When we were gearing up for E going to big school, it was exciting, an adventure. Now it’s time for W to make the transition, I just want to cry. I’m sad. It’s the end of an era. I know it’s a good thing – we are raising two bright, enquiring, relatively polite, funny, good to be with boys who are thriving at school and pre school. We love the smug parenting moments when we are told about something good, kind or smart that they have done. But the other bit of me, just wants to snuggle under the duvet with them. They are growing so fast. Sometimes, I just want time to stand still.

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W and his food….

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I was so busy today with work stuff, that the time flew by. E has been having lunch at pre school for ages now, but W was doing his first time having a packed lunch there. Lovely Bloke was fretting about it, especially as they both ate very little for breakfast. Fast forward to 3.30pm and I go to collect them. It’s one of the perks of self employment – being able to pop out for half an hour, to do the school run. Turns out W has eaten apple at morning snack and eaten a lovely afternoon snack. But at lunch time he did a lot of watching and not enough eating – other than his cake and salami.

E ad W got into the car and started devouring their packed lunches with fervour. It was actually quite sweet in some ways – they had been too busy / nosey / distracted to eat at lunchtime. Upon arriving home W doesn’t want to go digging in the garden. Instead, he proceeds to request, nay demand, food. And lots of it. He had a second portion of crackers, and salami, and apple. And then sausages which E took me to the fridge and instructed me to cook “right now”….

I fret so much about their eating. I really do. E is in a phase of eating beef and chicken at the moment, followed by him adopting the muscle man pose. We then have to feel his “big strong muscles”. It’s quite funny really, as he used to not eat much at all. God willing, W will follow in his footsteps at some point. At the moment, all he wants to eat is Salami and chocolate. And drink hot chocolate. He loves to drink his hot chocolate.

It was the programme last week, My Child Won’t Eat that’s altered my perception at the moment – if W is eating something, surely I should just let him get on with it? It’s important that he eats a balanced diet, but surely instead of a perfect diet, how about him just eating some good stuff and some stuff that’s not so great. And if that’s all he wants to eat, I should maybe let him.

I’ll probably go back to fretting about their food next week, but for this week, I’m going to be a bit more relaxed about it….
Do you fret about about the amount of food your baby, toddler or little people? What’s your approach…..