Athenas best friend is the daughter of one of my best friends and they were born exactly a year apart, Athena is the younger of the two but they are about the same height. When I think back to when she was about three days old and her parents came over to visit this tiny bundle the size difference…
How often do you answer the question: ‘Hows it all going?’ or similar with ‘oh, fine thanks’. A fair bit if you’re anything like me. In fact what I really want to say to people is ‘Not great actually, I’ve not slept for more than 3 hours straight since my youngest was born almost 18 months ago, I never eat…
Athena is now fully potty trained, and has had very few accidents since she’s been using the loo but we are about to go on a road trip for a week, and will be exploring various parts of the country before we head up to the Lake District, where we have some long walks planned and some fun days out.…
You know when you’ve spent the whole weekend away camping, and you have a couple of loads of washing to do, a car to unpack and a house to tidy and you really need to not have two small people under your feel whilst you do so? Normally I would have them attached to me, trying to ‘help’ but I…
We went on our first family camping trip last weekend, taking advantage of the extra day of the bank holiday weekend, we left early on Saturday and got back Monday evening. For our first trip I think 2 nights was just right and maybe next time we’ll book three nights! You might remember a little video I shared a few…
With The Great British Bake Off gracing our screens with its delicious presence again as of last week I thought it was probably about time I did some baking with Athena. It’s something I have put off up till now because whatever she’s doing Arlo wants to get involved which just wouldn’t go well. However today I plonked Arlo down…
Apparently I forgot all about an August Me & Mine post! I was writing up my yearly review in December and realised there wasn’t one! So this is a picture of me looking grumpy, though I don’t think I was at the time! We were on holiday with friends in the New Forest, but this was at the end of…
When I found out I was expecting a second baby Athena was about 13 months old and I naively thought that I would have her potty trained before her new brother arrived; around 20 months. I bought a potty, sat her on it every so often and very quickly realised that she had no interest whatsoever in using it for…
The last time I did a Stuff on a Sunday post was about a month ago I reckon, and for some reason I’ve not had the time to write weekly updates. Well, I know the reason; lack of sleep and addiction to Stranger Things on Netflix. Anyway I thought I’d do a monthly round up post and our Me and Mine…
Arlo has a new set of wheels; he’s been test driving the brand new SmarTrike 5-in-1 infinity trike. Designed to take a child from 10 months to 3 years and through a variety of stages: Stage 1: Sleep mode – the seat reclines back for comfy naps and has a high back so plenty of head support Stage 2: 10…
Sleep is a funny thing. When you’re younger it just doesn’t seem like a fun thing to do and when you reach adolescence it’s something that you can do for hours, days even! I remember the summer holidays before I started my A levels, I don’t think I got out of bed much before 11am then. Hey, some weekends in…
Koochi isn’t a brand I was too familiar with but have recently been introduced to them as sister company to Cosatto, a brand I do know and love having used a travel system, car seat and highchair from them. Koochi is designed to appeal to a slightly different market, the products have a lower price point but all still come…