Arlo has some new travelling buddies for trips out in the buggy! The Ted & Tess Pram String from Ambi Toys has been accompanying us and Arlo loves to play with the little bears! There are five coloured bears on an elastic with two plastic rings at either end to attach it to your buggy, car seat or cot. In…
I have hardly seen some of my previously close friends since I became a parent of two. This is for a few reasons, but it does upset me a bit so I’ve been thinking about why: Friends never get my full attention in restaurants or coffee shops because I am: Stopping Athena from emptying the sugar bowl/salt shaker/ water jug Asking…
We are in the midst of house buying, everything seems to take forever and it’s very frustrating as I just want to get in well before Christmas, unpack and then start sprucing it up! I’ve got so many projects in mind, some big ones like replastering the walls to get rid of the weird textured plastering (hello? the 1970s called…
Every baby with an older sibling needs their own little island of protected space away from trampling feet and grabby hands and for Arlo that’s his Fisher Price baby gym! Suitable from birth (and it seems like only a few weeks ago that when he was on it he couldn’t even reach the animal!) right into toddlerhood, which we know because…
‘Read On. Get On.’ have a mission to ensure that every child leaves primary school at 11 being able to read by the year 2025. It makes me sad to think that there are children out there that don’t know the glory of getting lost in a good book, of sneaking the light back on after they’ve been told to…
Last Sunday we had the most perfect family day out in London doing touristy things! My love for London is well known but there are still more than a few attractions I’ve not visited, but now I can tick another two off my list thanks to 365 Tickets! According to my mum I turned down the chance to go on…
Jamie Oliver’s Proposed Sugar Tax: Here’s Why I Think This Needs to Happen The saying goes “you are what you eat” and if you looked closely at all the foods you ingested you might not like what you see. The invention of fast-foods and more convenient grocery store items have done a number on our overall health. Depending on your…
I love baths, they’re one of my favourite things ever, and much as I do love a nice long soak on my own in a hot tub with a good book these days a family bath is pretty good fun! I’ve always had baths with Athena, right up until the night before I had Arlo in fact, so was really…
There’s a new dancing dude in our house, the Fisher-Price BeatBo, he’s a funky little thing who plays songs, dances and even remixes your own songs (or whatever you choose to say!) and plays them back to you! I will admit at first Athena wasn’t too sure when he first came out of his box, but once we’d shown her…
Some sibling love on the London Eye Sibling interaction this month mainly consists of the following: Random forehead kisses from Athena to Arlo Lots of hair grabbing from Arlo much to Athena’s annoyance Athena replacing her toys (hastily snatched from his little hands) with something of Arlo’s Athena asking for Arlo when she wakes up, and once even asking for…
So I probably win the award for the latest post about the most amazing Thursday night I’ve had in a long time, the #AsdaMeatup a few weeks back to celebrate National Burger Day with a BBQ courtesy of Asda. A big yellow bus (okay, two as there were so many of us) chugged us all up the hill and out…
Amazingly this week has been gloriously warm and sunny still down here on the South Coast! Annoyingly last weekend it was a bit gloomier where we were in Norfolk, but not one to be put off when I’ve decided what I’m wearing, I just added leggings! I’m also fairly excited that it’s soon going to be autumn, there’s almost nothing…