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Suggestions needed.. over the most ridiculous thing..

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Twiglett · 19/03/2005 19:35

We went on a short break a few weeks ago and I told DS (4) he could pack his new Spiderman backpack with toys and bring them, but he couldn't bring any more than would fit in

Anyway he did (and he packed a load for his baby sister too which I thought was really cute )

But .. he wouldn't unpack them to play with them

And .. he still won't

He carries this blinkin' backpack upstairs with him at night and sleeps with it in bed with him, he carries it downstairs in the morning

He rarely plays with the toys in it, if he empties it its for 20 minutes and then it gets re-packed (small whinge about zip not closing easily cos its so stuffed)

Anyhoo .. it is beginning to annoy me .. I want him to unpack it, put his poor toys away, play with them like a normal kid and use the backpack for swimming

But its life and death this backpack

its driving me ma.a.a.d

so I need suggestions on how to either a) get him to unpack it or b) stop having periods of actually caring that he's lugging a great big backpack stuffed full of knights, power rangers and mutant hero turtles

(I even found 3 socks, a pair of pants and a toothbrush in it yesterday )

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tiffini · 03/04/2005 21:24

you offered him some independence in packing his own bag, i expect he feels all grown up, and proud of his handy work. (bless him)
I would'nt take that away from him.

And hey, he can help you pack the grocery shopping from now on, providing he lets you unpack it when you get home.

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Twiglett · 03/04/2005 21:28

its been a MONTH, he's still going to bed with it, bringing it downstairs in the morning

the night before he came down with chicken pox, he came into our bed in the middle of the night .. and he brought the bloody bag

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tiffini · 03/04/2005 21:29

LOL

GeorginaA · 03/04/2005 21:55

PMSL Twiglett Can we at least have a photo of the bag?! I just have this morbid curiosity...

suedonim · 03/04/2005 21:58

Rofl!! How cute.

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Twiglett · 03/04/2005 22:01

this was at centreparcs

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Caligula · 03/04/2005 22:03

Ah! He looks so sweet!

Who would have thought from such a lovely photo, that he's such a nutter?!!!

colditzmum · 03/04/2005 22:15

Ahhh. Well it is a ver nice bag, and if I had one, I would want to keep it with me all the time too.
{grin]

GeorginaA · 03/04/2005 22:17

AW bless him, he's a very cute nutter

He's fantastic

MamaMaiasaura · 03/04/2005 22:45

aww bless he looks adorable.. i think it is a boy thing at that age. ds gets attached to all sorts of things.. last week on holiday it was a piece of seaweed which i made him leave behind.. no easy iykwim. i got a photo of him with it too.

GeorginaA · 03/04/2005 22:45

Mirage - I have to ask - did you find out where the kapok came from?!!!!

hub2dee · 04/04/2005 09:45

Your dh told me you sleep with a Gucci handbag under the duvet by your feet, Twiglett.

He said something about 'quite a few break-ins round here' and the 'missus likes to keep her passport near her at all times' - is it really that bad South of the River ?

Maybe ds is just copying you ?

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Twiglett · 04/04/2005 11:06

Take that back hub2dee

I don't even own a handbag, Gucci or otherwise

(all my money goes in the back pocket of my jeans)

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Twiglett · 04/04/2005 11:07

You're just jealous - you know where we live is far nicer than where you live

(mmmm right, there's no way I'm getting away with that - I will accept that you live in a particularly nice pocket of North London - but who wants to live in North London, when they could be in our village with the laydeeees)

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hub2dee · 04/04/2005 11:45

Twiglett said it: she doesn't have a handbag. She hasn't accused her dh of being a liar though, so she obviously does sleep with a bag by her feet under the duvet. Must be one of those free plastic ones. Don't you get sweaty feet dear ?

Drove down Loughborough Road on the weekend and through the Junction. Thank goodness it was sunny.

We then had dinner in Clapham which was full of BYTs.

I think I'll be boring and stick to the old laydees around here instead of raucous young laydees such as yourself.

hunkermunker · 04/04/2005 11:47
alicatsg · 04/04/2005 11:50

I'm loving this thread. Everyone in the office thinks I'm finding much to laugh at in my report on the Russian mobile industry.

hub2dee · 04/04/2005 12:01

hunker... you started it... I'm just a sheep...

Twiglett: Haven't you watched S&T and their 'hints for lardey arses ?' I think they advise against adding bulk to the derriere.

SoupDragon · 04/04/2005 12:25

Oh dear, he still has the bag??

hub2dee · 04/04/2005 12:32

Soupy: saw a shop in CrouchEnd yesterday named in your honour. Was going to snap a picture on dw's cameraphone but was in (a) in a rush and (b) lost, so didn't.

Only kidding, twiggy one, about the bulge. We all know you do body-double work for Pamela Anderson.

Prufrock · 04/04/2005 15:02

Twiglett - he is adorable - with or without the bloody bag

decmum · 04/04/2005 15:06

Great kid....how about you tell him that for yr next holiday he will be able to take a lot more with him and needs to start a box in his room where he can keep that stuff?

clary · 04/04/2005 16:14

lol at this thread, really brightened up my afternoon!
(BTW it's not just boys, dd (3.10) puts things in bags all the time)

hub2dee · 04/04/2005 16:49

Could you perhaps give him some magic bricks for his little bag ?

I mean HOUSEBRICKS and tell him he must carry them around all the time because the tooth fairies live in bricks making really strong teeth from the cement and clay etc. etc. etc.

After two days he'll be 100% bored of his heavy bag.

Blu · 04/04/2005 17:23

Ah, bless - how can you possibly nag him like this? Leave him alone to enjoy his toys and his bag in his own way - unless of course a mackerelly smell starts to permeate