Due April 2009 - Episode 13 - Springy's getting married in the morning, Ding Dong the April mums will shine (or at least swell some more!!

[SmuttyNuttyTaff]

here we go

Bleu - when you're done with Boffs d'ya wanna do dd's room for me? pink nevada i supply cake biscuites and all the tea/hot choc/coffee you can drink

BB - sounds like me too

Oooh I like those colors too Lulu I think they're sublime. I like cool colors like that myself, but out house is a bit modern and some how we've ended up with very mondern furniture, so DH and I are trying to be adventurous...How dull of us to think painting is an adventure, but you live how you can

Fab name your colour has Smutty. That must be a fun job, coming up with paint names.

Nutty that's nice, a dusky rose color Now you're more in driving distance and offering refreshments too...I'l think about it.

lol the bottom of her room is done in lilac spring just the duck egg at the top needs covering she wants it pink so we agreed on the nevada rather than the candy. I cant believe i actually bargained with a 4yr old regarding paint?!? and tis pink (im not a big pink fan)

Mom never let us choose colors for our bedrooms...white or cream that was the choice...though we did get to decide what color the rugs she made us were (and then of course we always go the bedding colors to match the rugs)

I'm not huge on pink either Smutty, although I think that Nevada colour is quite pretty. I'm trying to make sure I dress DD in plenty of other colours before we hit the inevitable pink faze that all little girls go through.

I do remember my favourite outfit when I was little - pink trainers, pink tights, pink ra-ra mini skirt, pink sweatshirt accessorised with pink legwarmers and a pink stretchy 'Flashdance' headband.

It was the 80s....

ahhh it's her room after all, i dont have to live in it just clean it, so she can have what she wants (i am toooooo soft obviously lol )

I don't like pink at all and I am petrified if I have a girl that all my friends (who LOVE pink) will buy it loads of yucky pink clothes!

I think it's good to involve kids in how their environment looks. How else can you expect them to take pride in it and look after it.

That said DDs room is going to be largely white for the foreseeable future. Once we know whether she is sharing it with a girl or boy we can make a call about how to accessorise it and what colours to add (I saw a nice apple green that I though I could paint some of her furniture in if it ends up being a room for a girl and a boy.)

luckily DD's fave colours of the moment are Pink, Purple (i love purple) and red (i like red too). so at least there is some variation. she chooses most of her own clothes too and there's suprisingly very little pink there, which is nice.

LuLu bless you and your 80s pinkness (was it that day glow pink?)

BB - it will happen if it's a girl. I remember DH getting back from work about a week after DD was born. Countless pink thinks had arrived and were strewn everywhere. He looked horrified and asked if there had been an explosion in a pink factory.

Oh I am going to be inundated with Hello Kitty crap!!!

BB either start pleading with them now not to or prepare yourself for the inevitable pink barrage (it's going to happen and the pink lovers have many an excuse lined up about how adoreable, couldnt not get it, i didnt think you would have any pink etc)

BB dont you want the hello kitty mac stuff though?

Hello Kitty is kind of cool in a kitsch Japanesey way. I was more freaked out by scary bubble-gum pink teddy bears grinning at me insanely from all around the room(and hid them in case they gave DD nightmares). And all the pink clothes. She was so jaundiced in the first couple of weeks that she really couldn't carry off pink so I kept her in white.

Gahhhh the Bubblegum Bears did they get you too LuLu??

Yes but only because it is MAC make up and has lovely packaging!!! I'm talking about the H&M Hello Kitty explosion that I am probably going to face!!! I don't hate HK but my sister and friend love it and I know that is ALL it will get if it is a girl! Also think Boys clothes tend to be a bit more funky when they are really little!

Ah there will be no pink bears - that will be stipulated!
My nice nursery is going to be full of plastic rubbish!

See now here is the dilemma - if it is a boy we have no name and will fight like cat and dog to chose one. if it is a girl I get said pink bears!!!

The bears terrorised me Smutty!!!

(still recovering)

I think I might have to lay down a 'cuddly toy' embargo for this baby cos the number of bears etc that DD has is quite obscene. Does that make me an ungrateful sow?

BB - nearly all my friends have boys and have always been really envious that I have a girl to dress. There are some great things out there, and it is possible to avoid pink. (And I think H&M are OK about exchanging unwanted gifts too, so you can keep a token HK T shirt to dress baby in when around your sis and then go and get lots of other stuff that you like better - look out for their zip up babygros!).

most of ds's stuff would look very cute on a little girl too - i have to say i dont mind a little bit of pink - but certainly not all day every day. and boys clothes certainly seem to be brighter - have some lovely bright green babygroes etc whereas a lot of the girls ones are pastel shades.

dh seems to have signed for three parcels from kiddicare when only two arrived - hmm. wonder if they will find the stray package when they get back to the depot, or if we have lost the stair gate for good?

hey hey, no probs smutty x

oooh i just thought, i wonder how auld alliance is?

ok am off home - see you all tomorrow. hope you have lovely evenings.

Wow I have learnt a lot about you all today!

I would love to go to a Richmond meet up or Cambridge in Summer - Boffin, can you say online which is your college or best not?