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We have a Bumbo – it’s been purchased for less than £15 including postage and it arrived in its genuine Bumbo box. It’s not a Chinese fake, it’s real and it’s brilliant except for the faint smell of cigarettes. I HATE people who lie about their non-smoking home on their eBay sales. OK so it’s only happened this one time but I still hate it. I found out because I picked it up off the floor and sniffed the bottom. I don’t make a habit of sniffing things but my baby’s stuff is important and I picked it up and just had a sniff and there was the cigarette smell. I guess it will disappear in time in my non-smoking home but it does spoil the excitement a little.

Husband did all the things I either can’t be bothered to do or physically can’t do – like picking sales that end at midnight when I am asleep, to place bids on and searching for weird spellings of Bumbo (although that could yield some very strange items!)

I got my boy to model his new thing for you and he looks happy… although he may have been having a pee at the time. It can be hard to tell the difference some times.

Boy in his new chair!

The Bumbo buying has been taken out of my hands. After several abortive attempts to purchase Bumbos from eBay which resulted in me running around swearing like a trooper and taking it out on him indoors, husband has decided he is going to buy it for me (deliberate or cunning, you decide). Trouble is he says he’s not going to pay more than a certain amount for it. We could be waiting until the baby is walking.

OK so I bombed on getting recycled bedding for my moses basket. I went on a tour of my local charity shops but I wouldn’t keep my dog in most of what I found. Well, it actually was a tour of highs and lows. I did managed to get a beautiful handmade sheet and pillowcase but it’s in pink with little flowers on it and clearly for a girl. I’m guessing my little one won’t notice but will I scar him for life if I put him in pink bedding?  The rest of what I saw was just yucky and remained on the shelf.

So I went on eBay and everything on there is either new or in bundles complete with moses baskets. So I have to put my hands up and say I went to a baby shop with my mum and bought new baby bedding. Sheets and blankets, really cute ones in cream that are not gender specific so there is no crass socialisation of my little one. I also bought a new mattress but then you have to buy new mattresses so that’s OK! My mobile phone is playing up today so I’ll try and get a pic of the pink bedding (divine) on later.