Yes, name is rather twee isn’t it?!
Not bad at all, I have signed up for the next 10 weeks – not too expensive as they do a sibling is half price offer and the cost is reduced for block booking. Rather amateurish and a little ‘toddler group’ in its planning but the kids enjoyed it.
It was not that organised really, they did have a theme of ‘teddy bears’ which they had emailed me and I had forgotten, but as that involved collecting them all in, swapping them all over and then putting them all to one side which had more than one child in tears about some other kid holding their teddy – it was probably just as well!
So there was the teddy bear version of chucking your car keys in the middle at a 70s fondue party, then some singing and actions, then some random banging of instruments before they got a parachute out. I bought a parachute after seeing how much all the kids loved Karen’s at Melrose although it is still hidden away to bring out during a rainy day moment, so that went down well. Then they got out a bubble machine and all the kids ran about popping bubbles (infact Karen, are you sure you are not supplying ideas to Twinkle Tots – can I expect to see lapbooking there next week? 😉 ). During all this Scarlett fell over and went splat on her nose which meant she spent a while sat on my knee but they both claimed to enjoy it at the end and seemed to fit in quite well. Davies was by far the oldest and biggest child there – I think there were about 15 kids altogether – mine were the only siblings, mostly girls and mostly around the year old mark. Davies was very good and mindful of them all being smaller than him. Not sure how much he will really get out of it although I guess it is confidence building for him, but I really want Scarlett to be part of something so we’ll see how the 10 weeks pan out and make a decision from there.
I was chatting to the woman at the end about the set up – asking whether it was a franchise as she has an email address and quite well presented promotional materials and she used to work for another similar franchised music and movement company and got bored by being so restricted so broke out to do this on her own – which explains the lots of different elements not quite gelled together yet. I think it has potential and might even try and chat to her a bit more about it as the weeks go by – not something I’d ever consider doing paricularly but the mechanics of these type of business interest me and I have some half formed ideas floating around in my head about such things.
Kids are currently trashing the lounge whilst we hang around before going to Tumble tots – Davies’ TT T shirt was found crumpled up but clean in the bottom of his bag and Ady made me promise to iron it – he used to be the kid at school in too short trousers and too big shoes that all the other kids picked on so he is very conscious of the kids appearances not marking them out – I on the other hand don’t want to pass such shallow notions onto them (and also will do anything to wriggle out of ironing!) but Davies did make a hama bead car yesterday which I also promised to iron so I might just rouse myself to manage both 🙂
Shudder, just the name is enough to put me off really but if I could get MIL to look after the other two it would be nice to take Fergus.
Comment by Jenny — 25 February 2005 @ 1:52 pm
yeah come – he’d love it.
It’s at the church hall in Broadwater next to the library and Downsbrook school (very strange peeping into the school field again after 20 odd years stood with my own children I can tell you!)
Comment by Nic — 25 February 2005 @ 3:30 pm