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The baby has had her first pedicure. I am not happy about it. I was down the beach with friends, and friends of friends, when I suddenly had to run home for a few mins to deal with an urgent matter that needed to be dealt with, um in the bathroom. When I returned, literally like 8 minutes later, my angelic baby girl now has red toenails! I am mortified! All I can think is of the chemicals going into her porus little membranes! She could have been allergic to it as well as wheat! How am I going to get it off? Using more chemicals! Grrrr. I’d left her with my friend, and it was her friend who I’ve never met before who cajoled my friend into painting the baby’s nails, so I felt unable to say how annoyed I am as I’ve only just met her. She’s an 8 months old baby for god sake, you don’t put chemicals near them! And to cap it off my baby sucks her own toes, she might ingest the varnish, (I know cute – she’s going to be a yoga teacher I think),! I wonder if I am being over the top…. I am being a neurotic mother? Or is it okay for me to be peed off? If it was me, I would have asked before I did that, but then I don’t think I would have wanted to taint a beautiful baby’s weeny toenails. I’m surprised they just didn’t go the whole hog and pierce her ears and dress her in a Reebok sweat suit.. I would have asked if I felt that it was a good idea. I would not have just done it. Thing is, it was a hot Sunday afternoon, I imagine everyone had had a few drinkies, they probably wern’t thinking. I forget because I am not drinking in the day. You can’t drink in the afternoon when you are looking after a baby single-handedly. Y’know in case you flake after one magners… which I usually do… baby bedtime with an afternoon hangover is no fun…. I was so looking forward to summer with the baby thought it would be fun fun and sun, but now I’m worried I’m just gonna be always having to get home to do baby stuff whilst others are drinking and sunbathing. I tried to take baby on the beach, I even bought her a SPF 50 sun tent for her to sit in, but she wanted to lounge outside with us, and of course she wanted the one thing I didn’t want her to put in her mouth…pebbles. Unfortunately the beach is full of the little blighters…it’s blummin made of them. Perhaps for once though it is actually better than sand…. I wonder what would happen if she ate sand… She’s teething and eating everything and anything at the moment, she chews on my phone, my bracelet and of course her favourite- the TV remote control. Still no sign of her first tooth….I’m scared… will it be awful? Will she scream all night as the first tooth pierces through her gums? Hopefully it will just appear suddenly and painlessly with a free toothbrush and some Colgate. Ah well I’m sure it won’t be as bad as trying to take nail varnish off a toenail with a moving surface area of 3mm x 3mm…..