Bumpkins & Babies Chat Thread

[Fraggles]

I didnt leave N until he was 14 months and even then it was only so I could go in to hospital. Im sure it will be fine Colsy.

Kte they do a different dropper than frontline if its not working btw as some fleas have become resistant. Bombs are great I never found powders worked. Pets at home do a good spray called zodiac thats really good too. We rarely got fleas when we got that.

 

[Chaos]

I've never left Missy over night .. the longest I've left her is 3 hrs while a friend watched her here and she was asleep lol

 

[littlekitten8]

I've left James overnight regularly to work night shifts. Going to be away from Friday to Sunday next week. He will be fine hun. Right off to go catch a few zzz's before I start my 1st of 3 night shifts. Looking forward to Monday.....I have a date!

 

[Kte]

Colsy: I have let Chloe sleep over at my parents twice now. Both times she has slept fine, she did go to bed later than ususal and needed some company to settle her in but other than that there were no problems . . . or so my parents told me! It can't be so bad if they have had her twice I'm sure he will be fine and if he isn't maybe just think that they, compared to you and OH, are only going to experience it for a short time and will have chance to recope one he has returned home to yourselves

LK: Hope the shifts pass quickly. Have fun on the date on Monday too and hope all goes well Hen do sounds fun too!

Fraggles: Thanks looks like another trip to my old haunt!

 

[Kaites]

I've never left Emma overnight either- no way I could inflict her terrible sleeping on someone else without feeling too guilty to enjoy the child-free time Hope you have a great time this weekend

Well, we're all packed ready to leave for the weekend- just need kids to wake up from nap and then be picked up by parents Long weekend here and we're getting outta the city asap since it's going to be a traffic nightmare- Canada Day weekend is always insane here being the capital and all but this year Will and Kate are here too so there is extra security and road closures downtown Anyway, off to enjoy some more time at the lake Hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[aimee-lou]

We've never left Earl overnight. A couple of evening trips to the cinema, and obviously during the day, but I don't trust anyone enough (sounds awful but it's true) to be able to looks after him, or to give up that precious time with him. My parents wont be able to cope with him, and while MIL has put him to bed on a number of occasions when we were living in Essex, I don't know, but the thought of him waking and me/hubby not being there chills me. I know he would be fine.... my logic says that he'd probably not wake up til the morning as he rarely wakes in the night now, but still, there isn't anyone I would be willing to leave him with, so I think this is the issue.

re: fleas. I've only ever found fleas on Dylan once and I doused him in flea shampoo and it seemed to work. They were hedgehog fleas so no eggs to deal with, just massive great jumping adults! He has program tablets from the vets now. Not had fleas in nearly 4 years.

Long day at work today - was in for 9, left at 5,30 and little or no lunch break. Work is ok I guess but I'm tired from the 4am starts (thankfully it was a 5.30 start this morning but still lol) and I'm starting to buckle again. Thankfully the tablets are not making me feel sick anymore, but I think I need another holiday. Thankfully only 6 weeks until I hve another week off. Have also just found out that I have to use up all 28 days before the middle of October and I think I have about 4 days more to use. May book a week off in September too

Craftymum - hope jacob is feeling better from teething. Earl has been cutting all 4 canines and that was bad enough. Dreading the molars but thankfully they'll be the last ones.

 

[MilosMommy7]

colsy - i've left milo tons of times. especially when i was prego with Ava because i was in the hospital so much. he actually seems to sleep better when he's at someone else's house!

 

[Kte]

CraftyMum: Hope Jacob is feeling better and his teeth cut through quick enough Hope you can get the bleeding sorted as well, can't be nice at all especially if that's one of the reasons you got it

Milo'sMummy: Happy 20 months to Milo yesterday

Aimee:

Kaites: Enjoy your long weekend, hope you have a fantastic time.

 

[Kte]

Forgot to add

We are off to a birthday party tomorrow, i'm all excited for Chloe lol. Its her god parents' little boy's birthday, sadly I can't remember if he is 4 or 5 this time though Should be fun though. I'm not so stressed this weekend as Nij has been away so I have been pottering around in the evenings so no big list waiting when I wake up - bonus! Why can't every week be like this

Well, I think I may hold a record . . . for breaking prams! Don't worry Fraggles, the Luna is safe! It's the pink mobile, I'm quite sad, I like it now, minus the chintz! The breaks have slipped so they don't work properly when I pop them on, not great. Although its funny as it sounds like when I was little and used to put cards and things on my bike spokes to make it sounds like a motorbike. At the same time, its not good as its harder to push

 

[Fraggles]

kte you are cursed.....I need to sell my old pram and not buy a new one lol

 

[colsy]

Wedding for us tomorrow. A friends' wedding I mean, not ours LOL. Smart hotel, a nice new frock (though I just saw it's now in the sale, which is always a bit of a killer), decent weather forecast - oh, and midcycle day approaching, so maybe a bit of NTNP/TTC All I gotta do is chill, remember that Monty will be totally fine overnight, and maybe stay clear of overdoing the champagne, as we still have to travel home on Sunday and then have our child back!

Kaites, enjoy the lake. Kte, glad you've had a better week (are you saying you find life easier when N is away?). Aimee, hope your l-o-n-g day at work goes quickly. LK, enjoy your hen weekend (or is that next weekend?).

Tata all, see you next week xxx

 

[Fraggles]

Enjoy the wedding Colsy

 

[Kte]

Fraggles: I know, seriouly unfair! I'd feel uncomfortable having only 1 pram though, I like to have a back up

Have a lovely time at the wedding Colsy

In answer to your Q: in a way yes, becasue he goes to bed so early its hard for me to clean as I would like, tip-toeing around a sleeping him and Chole! Also, last time I just got on with it last year he just ended up texting shovel face behind my back, so maybe that's a paranoia issue on my behalf. Plus, he has his days off and I come home and the house looking like a bomb sight still whereas now it isn't . . . so I am not stressed it's a mess or mad that he hasn't lifted his butt. Even though last week he started washing more again after a nagging session however, you get my drift

 

[MilosMommy7]

kte & colsy - have fun!


today i'm hopefully taking the kids to see an old friend of mine and her kids. her daughter is just 1 month older than milo. and i havent seen them since december of 09!

 

[littlekitten8]

Colsy - its next weekend. I'm on nights atm yuk

 

[aimee-lou]

Colsy - hope you had fun at the wedding!

Sorry i've been a bit quiet ladies. BFN and AF arrived today, plus a few money issues have left me a bit down tbh. I think hubby and I have decided we're going to move before the next one gets here as we're not happy with this house. It's too small to have 2 adults and 2 children in it!! Its only 2 bed, and while that wouldn't ordinarily be a problem, given the fact that Earl needed his own space from the very beginning, we don't think sharing would work for the first few months so we'll have to have a think. We've got to stay until December anyway (contract) but after that, we'll see how we get on.

Other than that, all quiet. Spent the day yesterday going bits and bats and playing with Earl lol. Love it!!

 

[MilosMommy7]

aimee - sorry to hear about money problems and the witch coming. we're having some here too seeing as my OH hasnt had 10 hour shifts like he used to get. our house is only 2 bedroom as well. but both kids are in our room since we co-sleep. one big bed, toddler bed, and crib all in one room

 

[Fraggles]

Milosmummy I totally get the all in one room. We are severely overcrowded here.

Aimee

 

[colsy]

Morning girls. A very quick one from me as I need to work this morn, and I need to do so quickly. But oh my, the weekend went sooooo well that I just had to pop in to say hello and let you all know that our first trip away from Monty went swimmingly - according to grandparents he was good as gold the entire time, he went to bed perfectly for them, and he slept straight through til 6am On top of that, we had THE best time at the wedding. I haven't danced for that amount of time all in one go since before Monty was even a little twinkle in his daddy's eye. The happy couple were once seriously into the whole Ibiza scene, so once the older members of the family had drifted off to bed, the DJ moved from wedding songs to house tunes, and us 'young-uns' (who am I kidding?!) did a lot of hands-in-the-air stuff OMG I felt like I was 22 again, living back in London.

We also had a sneaky trip to our local pub on Fri night, being as Monty was in bed and grandparents happy to oblige. And that really set us up for the weekend, because there was a local band playing indie covers all evening - basically it sounded like a band playing my entire CD collection More reminiscing there, as that was JUST like being back at uni.

So after that fab but exhausting weekend, I'm now in some serious need of and totally don't feel like working. Fortunately grandparents are still here and have got Monty this morn, while I work and OH does some draught-proofing work under the floorboards in the lounge.

Back to reality this afternoon I think. But hey, it's good to know we can still party if we try

 

[Kte]

Morning all,

MilosMummy: Hope you had a nice time and had a good catch up.

Aimee:

Colsy: Glad you had a great time and taht Monty behaved too