I have been off work sick this week.  A summer’s cold.  Or, just a cold summer.  Either way, I had a call from the nursery at 11:40am saying that Tosha had come in from playing outside and his eye was swelling up.
No one had seen what had happened, but it appeared to be a bee [...]

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Tolii graduated from the Oak Tree nursery this evening. Friends can see all the graduation photos in our gallery (remember to log in there).
Its off to Whitchurch Primary school for him come mid-September.  In the meantime, he can now coast through the rest of his summer at the nursery….
Tolii’s A-Levels (Attending Lunch, eating voraciously, even [...]

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Today was Tosha’s first day in the Oaks group at the Oak Tree Nursery. Like Tolii before him, he aged himself through Acorns and then Saplings.
Tosha was on best behaviour all day; as Tolii showed him about and guided him through the daily routine (play, play some more, eat, play some more, tidy-up, eat, [...]

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Tolii said he was disappointed that no jokes were done at his nursery in celebration of April Fool’s Day.  Daddy had warned him to be on guard for some, not knowing if any of the staff would have a little bit of fun with the kids or not.
So, daddy told him this joke tonight, instead:
“Why [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that Tosha has the habit of saying “SOME” (Russian for “by myself”). I thought I’d elaborate using this morning’s incident as a perfect example.
Tosha is fiercely independent. He is very proud of the fact he can do so many things by himself. He does have an [...]

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The Oak Tree Nursery had one of its open evenings for parents. Andrew popped in to find out the dirt on Tosha and Tolii. Well, all’s well.
They confirmed what we already knew: Tosha can put his point across quite well without words, thank you very much. If he wants something, then he’ll [...]

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