Hypersensitive

Well, I'm pleased to report that the new mattress was very comfortable, however Mr Phil has an issue with the new bedding that I've bought.

It seems that when I got into bed last night, Phil has taken the duvet cover off and removed the pillow case from his pillow, and under close interrogation it appears that the 100% cotton covers are not gentle enough for his baby soft skin, in fact he likened it so sleeping in a bed wrapped in grease proof paper! Cheeky bandit, all I can say is that perhaps he's not used to new sheets and their crispness, or the benefits of cotton bedding... but for sure he's adamant that he doesn't like the sheets and isn't going to sleep with them on the bed. I did try to explain that the new stuff is the same as the old stuff, it's just we've not slept in them for, ooh I dunno, at least 700 days and worn them in, neither have they been spun around a washing machine at 3000 rpm on a regular basis being blasted with fabric conditioner. We do have a bit of a scuffle about this and eventually we settle on the idea that Phil will sleep with one of my uber soft fleecy blankets while I'll sleep with the duvet with the cover on. I don't have a problem with it after all but then perhaps my skin is rather crocadillian in comparison to Phil's peachy covering.

In light of all this, this morning I put the sheets in the washer to see if I can make them more to Phil's liking and once that is done its time for Rupert to have his fortnightly bath and bouffant management session. He was a bit better in the bath but rather like a sponge he soaks up so much water he usually weights twice as much when you lift him out of the bath and before you can wrap a towel around him his shaken himself from head to tail getting most of said water over you, the bathroom and anything else that maybe in the splatter zone.

Once he'd dried off we gave him a hair cut, this time a number 1 all over (well that was the intention but Rupert was getting fidgety so he's got a number 1 over the top half and the rest is all a bit long! We'll try again tomorrow to tidy him up a bit.

Posted by Abi on the August 5, 2006 9:48 PM

sjon at August 7, 2006 7:34 AM