Bumpkins & Babies Chat Thread

[Fraggles]

Hope Harry's teeth are through as quikly and painlessly as possible. It's heartbreaking when you can hear them cry isn't it.

 

[Kte]

Fraggles - Yey glad you managed to eat out

Flora - Pesky teeth, hope they speed through now for Harry so he isn't suffering with them too long

 

[aimee-lou]

Flora - hope the teeth come through quickly and quietly. I think Earl is teething at the moment but it's hard to tell as he has all the symptoms of a cold - not good as I HAVE to go to work on Monday so hubby may have to stay off with him if it;s a case of him being poorly. As for the bed, Earl doesn't seem to know he can get out of it at the moment. He will sit and wait for you to get him up lol. I'm sure that wont last long! lol

Fraggles -- The PJ's are an ASDA special I think. We have a bit of a collection of pj's as they seem to be the item that Earl grows out of the quickest! lol I don't know what that's all about. Maybe it's my tumble dryer?!

Colsy - Sorry I didn't comment earlier re: clothes! I've actually shrunk lol. I was just over 10 stone before having Earl. I was hovering at 10.5-11stone after having Earl but since going back to work I've gone down to 9.5 stone! I'm not quite sure where the weight has gone from. I know my trousers - all of them!- don't fit!! but like you I can't afford to replace to i'm wearing belts and long tops to cover up the imperfections! I'm usually a 12 on the bottom and a 10-12 on top. I have no idea what size I am now I'm going to have to buy some new ones soon byt seeing as I've just had to buy Earl a whole new set of clothes (including 2-3 years sized vests!! ) and hubby needs a lot of new t-shirts as MIL's washer ate a few of them, I'm at the bottom of the list lol. Shame I haven't got any excuses or presents coming my way lol.

Anyhoo's - I'm off out this aft once Earl wakes up. Hubbys birthday tomorrow, and I need wrapping paper and a couple of little bits for him still. Bought him Toy Story 3 on DVD so looking forward to watching that tomorrow! lol

Hope we're all havinga good weekend!

 

[Kte]

Evening all,

hmmmm will be back once miss is in bed, it aint happening today!

 

[littlekitten8]

Evening girls. Hows everyones saturday going?

Flora - hope poor Harry is feeling a little less sore soon.

Well having left the house at 10.15am to go food shopping with my sister in law we finally got home at.....6pm!! Got to hers at 10.20am and we left to go shopping at about 11am cos she was just getting up as we arrived lol. Went to Tesco and Harvester is right next door so she decided she would treat us to lunch. So we went into Tesco and bought all the non-fridge and freezer food, put it in the car then went for lunch. Unfortunately we were sat right next to a birthday party so there were about 20 screaming 8 year olds making one hell of a racket so the woman taking our order got it all wrong! Didn't even order James's food dippy woman. So mine and SIL's came out, mine was wrong and James's didn't even appear. Told her mine was wrong and asked where James was and she looked blankly at me and asked if I had asked for it! Soon got sorted though and James ate a whole child's portion of pasta, 1/2 a piece of garlic bread and some chips. As well as a fair amount of salad bar. Don't know where the hell he put it! Then we went back to Tesco to get all the fridge and freezer stuff. Went back to SIL's for a cuppa at about 3.45pm and ended up staying til almost 6pm lol. We put on The Sorcerer's Apprentice (awesome film!) and so ended up staying rather longer than planned. SIL bought James the cutest little pair of wellies which he loves with dinosaurs on them. So now James is in bed and I am cooking homemade rice pudding for tomorrow.

 

[Kte]

LK: Glad you had a good day, minus the screaming 8yr olds and the food mix up! Chloe has been a bottomless pit today too maybe its just a growing time or something?! Sounds like a nice meal James had

Trying to think where to begin . . . it's been a good day lol Spent lots of quality time with Chloe, lots of giggles and fun. She has been a bottomless pit though when it comes to food today, she had weetabix for breakfast with a bit of apple and some grapes, then some yoghurt. A banana (not emergency lol) and some of mine, a big scrambled egg for dinner, some soreen, a buiscuit, some more apple, some more grapes, some baked beans (whilst tea was cooking as she couldn't wait!) then some tea, chicken pie, wedges and peas, then a mini choc bar and another yoghurt

She was really brave today and has decided she wanted to tackle walking down stairs (holding onto me). Before she has done one or two steps at the top holding onto me and then asks to be carried but today there was no stopping her, she kept on climbing back up and asking for my hands so she could hold onto them and walk down. She did try and grasp the banister a few times but it was still a little out of reach / awkward for her to grip. It was so nice to see her trusting me and being so brave walking down

Nij called me up earlier too to say he'd booked me a hair appointment at 2.30 I didn't even get around to moaning it needed doing

Lastly, we booked our summer holiday I sold enough gubbin's on ebay to be able to afford the sun holiday We're off to Wales! We gave Chloe a crayon and asked her to draw on the map they give you and the first place she hit we would go . . . and she chose Wales. I'd excited as the last time I went there was to Cardiff with my Mum and Dad years and years ago so it's going to be nice and different.

Colsy: Sorry forgot to reply too. Clothing wise, hmmm well really I am a 12 not on top and a 14 on bottom, but I managed to get some PJ's from M&S at Christmas and the bottoms were size 12 too. I managed to loose quite a bit of weight last year (trying hard to maintain, darn current sweet tooth) as before I was top 14 and bottom 16.

 

[Kaites]

Happy Saturday ladies

Hope everyone is having a good weekend Ours has been pretty relaxed. We slept in and went out to breakfast with my family this morning. Emma and I took a lovely 2.5 hr nap after breakfast

I think the blocked milk duct progressed to mastitis last night- had a fever and flu-like symptoms. I really didn't want to go to the hospital so drank lots of fluids, took ibuprofen, got Emma to drink like there was no tomorrow, went to bed early and today I'm much better. I contemplated going to the clinic this morning, but without the fever, etc., there is no way they'd prescribe antibiotics anymore anyway. So today I'm just taking it easy- duct still isn't 100% but much better.

Emma's cold is still hanging on too- all the sleep is probably doing her some good too though.

Flora- Hope Harry's teeth finishing cutting quickly

Colsy- I think I'm the same size as pre-baby but I'm definitely a different shape- it's like the fat has shifted around to slightly different spots I'd love a wardrobe re-do too but there is always something more important to spend money on.

Kte- Sounds like a nice holiday you have planned Chloe sounds cute climbing up and down the stairs

 

[Kaites]

lol- Emma just posted my last post before I was finished

I think that must be her way of telling me to get off the computer!

LK- sounds like you had a nice day out with your SIL

Aimee- Earl looked cute in his big boy bed!

sorry if I missed anyone!

to those that need them!

 

[craftymum]

LK Good news about the Docs, hopefully it's something less serious and easily treatable
Aimee Love the pics of Earl in his bed, he looks so grown up
KTE Jacob's another dummy fiend, can't keep him off it at all, he loves it!
Flora Hope Harry's teeth come through soon, not fun, great news about him settling at creche

Jacob has been stuffed with a cold all week and has a wee chesty cough too but I think it's all coming from his teeth as he is cutting all 4 canines at once, poor wee man Hopefully they come through quickly then it'll just be the 2nd molars after that and that will be him done with teething.
We were at my niece and nephews joint birthday party yesterday afternoon, Jacob had a ball and all the kids loved him, he ate lots of unhealthy party food and played with his cousins and their friends, he was knackered when we left and slept sound all night.

 

[Chaos]

Afternoon girls!

67f here today, got all the windows and doors open and cleaning. I got two adults who are 'dying' with cold and a toddler that is blowing green snot bubbles out her nose while dancing to toddler tunes on TV lol. At least she is in a good mood! I think part of her snots is because her two vampire fangs up top have just poked thru .. that makes .. (counts) 14 teeth now. Bloody gremlin!!!

We're looking to come home and visit the UK in May .. flights are expensive tho at the moment! $700 per person, and we'd have to pay for Missy cause I aint having her on my lap for 8 hrs. Well .. the actual flights are only 200, its 500 bloody fees and taxes!! GRR

Kte: Missy has days like that .. where she devours everything including the cat food, then she has days where she just nibbles on stuff and barely eats! Kids are odd.

Kaites: Glad the blocked duct resolved its self.

 

[florabean1981]

Not sure if it's the teeth or delayed reaction to his mmr or just a bug of some sort but harry's got a skanky face n cold n a fever, poor little bloke. It's been a long day so I'm expecting a long night too with him.

Hope everyone else is doing ok?

 

[Kaites]

Sounds like lots of green, snotty-nosed Bumpkins around Hope everyone is feeling better soon Emma's still streaming green goo too

Chaos- Want to send some of that nice weather our way? Hope you manage to get home for a visit, despite the flight costs (it's insane the taxes on plane tickets)

Nighty night!

 

[colsy]

We're looking to come home and visit the UK in May ..

So does this mean we should plan a Bumpkins meet somewhere for all of us?

 

[Kte]

Morning all,

Assignment due in 5 days and doing really badly again Struggling to get motivated and I am writing about motivation. Soup time I think!

Chaos, it was funny you mentioned cat biscuits as she tried to get to them last night Enjoy the nice weather Those taxes are awful!

Colsy: I was thinking the same, if Chaos is up for it / can fit us in.

Hope everyone who is poorly feels better soon

 

[aimee-lou]

Well you can add us to the list of the afflicted! lol

Earl came down witha sniffle on Saturday and has been getting steadily worse since then, and I've been following a close second/ Hubby has a tummy bug (has had that bout a week) but Earl and I seem to have avoided that in favour of the mother of all colds!

He's also been sick afer his lunch of shreddies which was all I could eat therefore Earl had that too lol, and has discovered that he can get out of his bed on his own so was up every 15 or so minutes from 2am onwards. Consequently today we haven't gone anywhere, just vegged at home. Earl has had 2 naps, I've had 2 naps lol, and I have had to miss a day at work and hubby a day at uni to look after the pair of us! We are a sorry state lol

Been a bit of a naf day really.

Hope we're all doing better than us lurgied lot! lol

 

[littlekitten8]

Oh dear we really do have a load of snotty little bubbies. James is all snotty too and sounds a bit wheezy so going to be keeping a close eye on him tonight. He is probably a bit old for bronchitis but there is alot of it going around here atm. He also has a little graze on his nose from falling over in the garden. He leant forward to put a toy down and overbalanced hitting his face on the floor (which is all patio slabs). I felt so guilty for not catching him but he had already run away from me as I was unlocking the door

I tried him with Cows milk again the other night. Was not a good plan. He seems to have grown out of his lactose intolerance...til I give him milk. He was up 5-6 times that night crying. So we have gone back to his lactose free formula again and will leave it another couple months I think.

I think we should arrange a Bumpkins meet up when Chaos is here!!

 

[florabean1981]

I'm away beginnin may in Cornwall for divefest then away end of may in north Wales with friends but other than that, I'd b up for a meet!

 

[Kte]

Afternoon all

Hope everyone is okay

I've popped a question in the toddler section https://www.babyandbump.com/toddler-pre-school/525290-pram-tertainment.html

Assignment going okay-ish! Soup time again and back onto it!

all.

 

[Fraggles]

Afternoon all ooooh a meet up would be good.

Well ive been today (my FB status says why)

 

[littlekitten8]

Fraggles - whats up hunni? I dont have you on FB