Bumpkins & Babies Chat Thread

[Kte]

Morning all

I shoud be cleaning, I'm packing for our different adventures next week as well as getting the house presentable for parents coming to Chloe's pre-birthday party tomorrow This place looks worse than when I started! It doesn't help I am having one of those days where I can't make any decisions

I realised this morning that Chloe gets all ecxited about her formula bottles so I am going to have to start mixing up her cups a bit so she doesn't get so picky when she drinks more cows milk.

 

[Kaites]

I hope Chloe's prebirthday party goes well today Enjoy your week of adventures too (just in case you aren't around the computer )

 

[Kte]

Kaites: Love your new avetar picture of Emma!

I'm not sure if we are taking the lap top, prob not until we go to Southport, there is no way Nij could cope without his lap top, he took one to the Isle of Wight a few years back. Mon / Tues I may be able to get on but will be having a good gass at my sisters and entertaining my nephews so won't be around much mid week.

The party was fab. MIL/FIL came at 12 but Chloe was still in her PJ's! I got her into her party clothes - her little witch outfit and then not long after my parents turned at about 1.30. They were here for a good few hours then Chloe's godparents and their little boy turned up and a couple of Nij's friends. Chloe seemed to have a great time, loved the attention and her presents! So far she has a little cooker / kitchen toy from Nij and I, a turtle thing that you push on the ground that has light up ears and a nursery rhym CD from my Mum and Dad - plus some fleecy PJ's from them that she loved to hold. Nij's parents got her a cosy looking coat and a ride on car thing, (Disney princess) and then her god parents kind of got the same ride on thing but Winnie the Pooh. She did say we could have the receipt but we decided to keep both as they are slightly different, they have different gadgets and buttons pretty much, plus I decided we could use one outside next year (they last until she is 3) and one just for indoors. Nij's friends got her two big cuddily teddy bears and we let her open a Miffy book, paints, paint brushes and a hat and mitt set from us. She loved playing with all the different ballons we got too and thankfully there were no popping incidents!

Hope everyone else is having a nice weekend and hope your all okay

 

[Kte]

Oh and since I may not be around may I add;

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and

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[Neferet]

Kte- The party sounds awesome! Sounds like Chloe had a really nice time. =]

I have a bit of a problem... I can't seem to control myself when it comes to buying halloween costumes for Ike. He has 3 so far and I plan on buying 3 more lol! I suppose he can wear 1 to the halloween thing in baby group tomorrow and then wear one on halloween... and I guess he could wear one for his birthday party on Thursday. He'll probably end up wearing a different halloween costume every day until halloween lol!

It's his birthday in 3 days and I'm freaking out a little. I haven't started buying any of the food or anything and I need to get plates, cups, decorations and stuff. Oh, and party bags. I have loads of stuff to go in the party bags, but no actual bags yet lol. Why do I have to be so picky?! But yeah, even though the next few days will be a bit mental trying to get things sorted, I'm really excited about his 1st birthday! =]

 

[colsy]

Hi girls, only a very quick one from me today as trying hard to get a project finished so I can have the rest of the week off! (It's a nice life being freelance!) Anyway, just wanted your thoughts on this one - https://www.babyandbump.com/toddler...es-put-bed-even-now-aged-1-a.html#post7439985

And also this one! https://www.babyandbump.com/natural-parenting/445666-ideas-home-made-gifts.html#post7442514

Kte, great to hear you and Chloe and family had a lovely birthday party.

Sorry to short, hope to pop back again later xx

 

[colsy]

Sorry, my post seems to have come up twice. Only meant to post it once.

 

[colsy]

How do I post photos within BnB messages? Thanks for help! (My pics are on my computer, not on a website.)

 

[Kaites]

If they are small enough, click "go advanced" and then you can attach images (paper clip icon) from your computer or upload your photos to a photo sharing website like photobucket or flikr and then just click the "insert image" icon and paste the URL where your photo resides on the photo sharing website. Sorry if that is clear as mud

 

[colsy]

I think I've inserted a pic of Monty's birthday cake(s) ... but not sure if it's worked ... oooh, I think it has ... will try posting it now.

 

[Kaites]

Happy Monday

I'm finally legitimately on the computer now (before it was part of a game with the kid I babysit- might have to play that one again ).

Kte- Glad to hear Chloe enjoyed her party! She looks like she's having fun in the piccies

Colsy- The cupcakes looked lovely We had cupcakes for the tiers of our "wedding cake". I've attached a photo of Emma's duck cake that my mum made (Emma loves ducks). Hope work went smoothly for you today

Neferet- I hope the preps for Isaac's party go well

Emma is fast asleep in the carrier on my back so I should probably try to mop the floor or do something constructive. Hope everyone is having a good day!

 

[Neferet]

Colsy- Those cakes look so yumtastic! =]

Kaites- The party preps are going really well. Can't believe he'll be 1 the day after tomorrow! And OMG the ducky cake looks awesome! =]

OMG Just did the paternity test. I wish I'd never agreed to it. I know for a fact that FOB is Ike's father. The swabby things made Isaac scream. Poor little guy. =[ FOBs dad was really nice though.

 

[sam76]

That cake looks fab!!

Hello everyone how we all doing and babies aswell? well im off work today took George for his jabs, 3 of them, its so nice being off and spending time with him, miss this alot, hows everyone doing, any news i have missed, is anyone doing anything for halloween etc, any mummys pregnant or trying?? dont get chance to get on here much, miss it so much really, as this group is fab, and it helped me alot xxx

 

[Kaites]

Happy belated birthday Earl!!!! I hope it was a fantastic day

Quiet in here this week! I hope everyone is well. Not much going on here to report- been getting Halloween stuff organized for daycare and sewing up a storm (in the process of converting a cheap winter coat to a babywearing coat).

Neferet- Poor Isaac! I suppose it's better to get that kinda stuff done before he's old enough to remember, even if you know who the FOB is

Sam- I hope George's jabs went okay

Hope we're all well

 

[Kaites]

Happy Birthday Isaac!!

Hope you are having a fabulous day!!

 

[Neferet]

Isaac is having a fabulous birthday! He's having his nap now (dressed as a cat =D) so I'm gonna go get myself ready for his birthday party and then get him ready too. =] So excited. So far I deffo prefer Ike's birthday to any birthday I've ever had. He loves all his presents.

 

[Kaites]

Glad to hear he had a good birthday!

Gah, I'd love to vent about work atm!! I'd love to drop one of my families and say "things just aren't working out" before I get screwed over because I feel like that's the way things are heading. I wouldn't be surprised if they look for new childcare if I don't cave to this issue since it sounds like they have been through quite a few providers in recent history, which also makes me wonder if other providers told them not to come back End of the day, I guess I have to be happy with work since it's also my home and I am still getting emails from people who are interested in my daycare, so the clients are out there... blah!

On the up side- today is Friday!!! Weekend plans?? My hubby finally has a whole weekend off Other than dressing Emma up for Halloween, no real plans (just relaxing). I think i'm going to dress her up today in her costume though so that I can take some piccies of her with her little friend. He's dressing up as Tigger- I had originally bought an Eeyore costume but returned it once I found the duck costume. I kinda wish that I hadn't returned it now since the two of them would have looked so cute together!

Anyway, I should eat some brekkie before the kiddies descent upon my house for the day. Hope everyone is well

 

[florabean1981]

everyone, how the heck are you all? It feels like forever since I checked in here, lol. Sorry for being 'MIA' recently; I was a bit poorly with a stinking cold, then we went away for hubby's birthday last weekend for 4 days to Dawlish in Devon (beautiful) & stayed in a static caravan, which Harry thought was the best thing ever! We did the usual type things, but by far the best was going to paignton zoo for the day- if any of you are ever down that way (near Exeter) I would defo recommend going there for the day- it was brilliant for all ages

Since then, Harry's had a squidgy tummy I'm really hoping it's not related to the fact I've been giving him 1-2oz of cow's milk as a drink each day for the last week? I honestly can't think what else would be doing it since none of us have eaten anything unusual or anything we haven't had a gazillion times before? He's leaked pooey nappies 5 times in the last 2 days which is just gross & I've got old mixing bowls full of dirty clothing soaking in napisan on my kitchen worktops now in hope his clothes arent wrecked!!!

I breifly skim-read through the other posts...

Happy Belated birthdays to everyone, and happy birthday to those of you celebrating over the next couple of days.

Colsy- Harry has started criying everytime I put him to bed; heartbreaking, but he usually stops after a couple of minutes, lays down & goes to sleep, so I figure he's learning.... He's finally sleeping 10-12hrs straight through now, so that's great too. And with regards to eating crayons- Harry still puts blimming EVERYTHING in his mouth; I've given up trying to stop him; if it's gross he spits it out, if not, he munches away on it like it;s the crummiest thing in the world... silly boy. I turned my back for like 5 secs at baby group 2 weeks ago to get a paper towel & when I turned back, Harry eating the paint covered paint brush with one hand, while holding the glue stick in his other hand And he was covered in nice pale blue paint with a big smile on his face... I was like WTF? How can you be so quick???!!!! i guess what doesn't kill them only makes them stronger!

Hope those wo've been ill feel better soon

and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! I only got Harry an orange sleepsuit with 'mummys little pumpkin' on the front this year since OH is away working, so it's just me & harrybo & I didn;t feel like going out anywhere.

anyways, better go to bed soon. Long day of boring housework tomorrow. Oh joy!

 

[Kte]

FFS I just wrote loads and its gone adn the internet is so slow. So

Evening all :wave:

Hol good so far, spent longer at my sis than planned and Chloe loved playing with her big cousins.

The accommodation at southport is a bit of a dive but could be worse I guess.

Happy bealted birthday to Ike, sounds like you both had a great time! Sorry cant do glitter thiungy as this dongle thingy is sloooooooow

Kaites: Hope the prob is resolved and hope to see Emma as a duck! Cute!

Speak to you all soon

 

[Kaites]

Since Kte's connection wasn't up to doing a Sparklee for Isaac, here's a belated one

https://img-s3-01.mytextgraphics.com/sparklee/2010/10/30/4dce2df8146f11d72f89647cb6cfd789.gif

Hope everyone is having a good weekend I should be menu planning and looking up activities for our dinosaurs theme (November is going to be dinos and reptiles- should be fun!) but I'm taking a little break I think the little "issue" that was brewing may have been successfully squashed- sounds really adversarial but I really feel like with this one person, if I don't stand my ground, I'm going to be walked all over (been a few minor things so far but this one was a bigger issue).

Flora- I hope Harry is feeling better soon If the napisan doesn't get the stains out of his clothing, try sunning the stains out. That always works well with cloth diapers- just hang them wet outside (doesn't need to be a super sunny day for it to work) or place on a window sill. For really stubborn stains, put a bit of lemon juice on first and then sun them. HTH harry sounds cute with the paint and glue stick- Emma did something similar with red paint and it looked like she was wearing lipstick

Kte- Sounds like you are having a nice holiday Are you just away for one week?

Right, need to grab another and get back to work... to those that need them!