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I have a playroom!

Well a toy room.
It has been packed up with 'house stuff' since we moved in, and it is practically empty of non toy stuff and filled to the brim with kids toys!
Now all I have to do is continue to fill with toys and sort my living room out and make it into a grown up space.
One day I'll take pics and post ;)

PSA: BRIO ZENTO

Seems like I'm on a one woman crusade to highlight products that don't work or shoddy customer service.
My poor baby has a REALLY sore and bruised bottom today and we think it's down to the Brio Zento car seat that he uses.
We mostly do short trips in the car seat, but today we went back to Happy Chicks to return the poorly Cream Legbar. It's a 2.5 -3hr round trip depending on traffic etc.
My 2year old complained of having a sore bum on his return and kept flinching when picked up/asked to sit down. So my husband checked his bum thinking he had a sore rectum as he's had ongoing problems with having a poo and withholding said poos.
He couldn't see anything wrong so we carried on as normal.
At bathtime I decided to look at the cheeks of his bottom as he was still complaining and flinching when you touched his bottom. He looked to have bruises on the cheeks of his bottom and his lower back. He was born with a Mongolian blue spot so I questioned whether that was it (I knew in my heart that it wasn't but wanted to believe it was).
His bottom is bruised, badly :( We inspected the car seat and it is rock hard! We've never thought to inspect it in that way. My older son used the car seat for a while when he was younger, I just hope he was never subjected to such pain.
I can't believe that this happened! I feel I have subjected my child to an abuse. I strapped him into it daily, without a thought. Thank God when his older brother was not with us I let him use his car seat (kiddy comfort pro) so less pain for him I hope.
Upon Google-ing I found this thread. Seems it is a known problem. Maybe there's more info out there. It was enough for us. The car seat will be going in the bin!

Poor bird

It's lost so much weight and so quickly. I mean I handle them every day and the change has been almost overnight. Poor thing.

Tis alive!

It may have caught a cold/chill. It's breathing is much better and it seems to be getting better.
It had some tuna and I've bought some apple cider vinegar (ACV) and intend to give it some tommorow. It's great having a pet food shop so close!
I have heard - (somewhere) that apple cider vinegar is supposed to be a bit of a cure all in humans also (don't quote me on that).

I'm scared I'm going to find a dead chicken in the morning

The largest of my two chicks had laboured breathing tonight and I think maybe it's breast bone is protruding compared to its 'sister' :(
I'll be really sad as I've actually become attached and it's the more friendly of the two. Also, my eldest just named them after him and his little brother.
I really hope it's something and nothing.
I wasn't going to get chicks originally as  I know they are more susceptible to, well, everything. I didn't really want to expose my children to the very real possibility of losing a pet (well more than I had to iykwim)? But after looking after my cousins I thought it'd be a good experience, and it is. But I really hope it's something and nothing.