Little Miss Bossy

Like the title says, Elizabeth is getting quite bossy these days. She took my phone off me this morning, put it down, then gave me the remote control and said "Tumble?" (as in Something Special with Mr Tumble).

And later, she took it off me again and said "come on mummy" and pushed me out of the seat to get her something from the kitchen.

She's very insistent with her noes now too. It can take a while to find out what fruit she'd like to eat in the morning now.

I went to a new session at the Children's Centre this morning. It was a "Story Time" session. They start by reading a book, then have activities around the room that relate to the book.

I wasn't pleased when they said there was a table of snacks and drinks. The snacks were; bananas, biscuits and cakes. They and the juice were sat at child height for them to help themselves throughout the session.

We are trying to avoid giving Elizabeth too many sweet things. She's never had proper sweets or chocolate bars, as far as we know... But I do not think it's fair or right to deny her these things when they are right in front of her. So she had a biscuit and a banana. She wasn't insterested in the cake.

As for the drinks. Well, Elizabeth mostly gets her drinks in sippy cups or re-used juice bottles. She gets to try an open cup now and then, but she's still not perfected that art. So everytime she went near that table I would have to run and make sure I got there first, so that she wouldn't tip a cup of juice all over herself. I was too slow one time... Grr!

I won't be going back, at least not until Elizabeth is a little bit older.

I find it strange that the children's centre would even offer biscuits and cakes. It's run by Sure Start, and they make a big deal about eating healthy food. I know a biscuit now and then isn't going to hurt, but why bother offering it? Why not just have the bananas? Most of the children were perfectly happy with a banana.

/rant

The health visitor came round this afternoon to give me the Red Book for baby 2, and make me aware (although I already knew) of the services available etc. She's new to our local Clinic. Seems nice enough. I did make a comment about how Elizabeth didn't get her 9-12 month review and her book start pack. Apparently she should get another review at 2 years. We'll see...

Elizabeth was her usual angelic self in front of visitors. She chatted away and passed the leaflets etc between me and the health visitor. She even impressed her with some counting.