Pebble, A's nappies changed in the hot weather, but they were hard poos, so I felt really guilty for letting the poor thing get dehydrated. She had a beaker of water thrust at her at every opportunity after that!
How are you getting on with your enormous to do list LG&T? I wish I could help. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
Happy birthday (belated) to MrsJB.
I'm using my Quinny Zapp at the moment, as the Mountain Buggy is half packed (to check that it would pack small enough for ParcelForce to take it after the Ebay auction. The Zapp is usually my "car buggy". Put a deposit on the Zoom pushchair and should get that early next month. Will just have to push it about a bit with one baby in it!
We got burgalled again on Sunday night when we were in bed. Bastards. Three laptops, two digital cameras, DH's TomTom, my wallet, S's and my passport (by the door to take to the bank the next day) and one car key, though the useless f*ckers didn't even take the car, which would have actually done me a favour. Was in emotional distress when I thought I'd lost four years of family photos on the laptops, but thankfully had backed up all but the last three or four months on the BT server. (Cried with relief when I found that.)
At least three other houses in the area were done the same night. The police told us about another one on our road, but when Tesco rang to get a new card number to pay for my delivery and I said I'd cancelled mine due to a burglary, they said I was the third person in the immediate area to say that. They must have had a van and gone round checking windows because of the hot weather. They took the bag for the Quinny Zapp for the loot, which is effing annoying becuase I'll have to replace it and the car seat adaptors and the instruction manual if I want to sell it.
We only realised after the police had gone that DH had left the downstairs toilet window unlocked and that's how they got in. We're keeping quiet to the insurance company about that. Police said they might have hooked the keys off the hall table through the letterbox so that's the story the insurance company are getting. I'm already worried they won't pay. We told them when we moved in that there was an alarm installed, but that it didn't work. When I check the insurance policy it says we have a "non-specific" alarm and that we're supposed to have it turned on at night. Plus we're supposed to lock the front door locks at night and leave the keys in... All the stuff you don't bother to look at when the policy arrives. They appointed a loss adjuster when I reported the theft so it looks like they already have no intention of paying in full. Had to go out on Monday to get a cheapy cheap computer as we can't really wait weeks and weeks to find out if our stuff will be replaced. Lloyds outdid themselves and managed to replace my debit cards by yesterday morning, which is pretty good going. MBNA really annoyed me by trying to sell me, yes sell me fraud protection when I cancelled the credit cards. I mean, I know the operators probably HAVE to ask, but then they're told to ask you why you said no! "It's 6.20am and I've just found out I've been burgalled and you're the second place I phoned after the police. It's really the last thing on my mind right now." was my tart reply. FFS. They could at least ask in a nicer way. Say, "if you think you need fraud protection, we do offer a service", would do...
Have had the alarm repaired now, but I get hacked off about having to lock myself in at night and have my downstairs alarmed. Should be enough to close your door at night. Before I moved to the UK, my back door was always unlocked. Not that I had much to steal, mind... When I moved in with DH in his loft, we twice had burglars on the roof, trying to get in the skylight or fire doors, which ended with DH and the security guard from the next door development chasing them off with a metal bar. Only after the second time would the developers put alarms on the scaffolding to stop the ne'er do wells climbing up to our roof. Then we got robbed in our next place, just days after our honeymoon. That was a "secure, gated" development, except half the contractors in London knew the front door codes... Someone got in and kicked in the flat door and robbed the laptop (with all the honeymoon photos), plus the camera and video camera. Then last October I didn't realise the decorator had opened the living room window before he left and someone climbed in and stole my good digital SLR camera and my purse and now this. I feel under siege!
A has learned the sign for sleep and came over to my chair just now and asked to go to bed. Awww.