Tidy Freaks!

I think our car attracts rubbish. Well actually I just have a husband who flings things into the footwells and leaves diet coke bottle lids all over the place. Last week Athena found a random one on a pavement and picked it up and shouted ‘Daddy!!!’ waving it around. So not only is the car full of bottle lids, and…

Stuff on a Sunday #39

Last Sunday was AWESOME because I made a trip up to see my favourite redhead Donna. We arrived in time for lunch and she’d put on a lovely buffet lunch for us, the little ones sat and ate at the kids table and we chatted. Then they headed into her garden (complete with playhouse, swings, slide and sand pit!) which…

Renting around the Country

I mentioned in last week’s Stuff on a Sunday post that we’ve started looking for a mortgage, our first one. I’ve been a renter since I moved out of home in my teens, although I actually lived rent free for a while in the pub where I worked for a bit, and didn’t realise how good I had it! House…

joie steadi car seat review

Review: Joie Steadi Rear facing Car Seat

The Joie Steadi car seat enables your most precious of cargo to travel rear-facing until around four years old (up to 18Kg). In light of recent iSize regulations coming into place that state a child must be rear facing until 15 months as a minimum (more info here) this will be something that a lot of parents will need to…

Stuff on a Sunday #38

This week has absolutely flown by! This weeks main themes are ‘HOT’ and Charlie and Lola… On Sunday Sam did a half day at work so we took a walk to my friend Anna (Anna’s Drawing Room) Artists Open House, which was lovely! We got to catch up with the lovely duo behind Hello Dodo, eat some home made cake…

Big girl beds and stairgates

“Don’t lift anything heavier than your baby” they told me after my C section.”that includes your toddler”. Oh. So the decision to take the side off Athenas cot was made rather hastily after Arlo arrived home. We didn’t want to do it all of a sudden though in case it was too much change all at once, what with having…

What the baby wore: Grey Crosses

I’m starting to put Arlo in ‘proper’ clothes a lot more, rather than just fancier sleep suits. Saying that though the weather is so hot that at the moment he’s often in a short romper or just a vest! This outfit is from a week or so age before the heatwave arrived. A grey wrap over vest from H&M conscious…

Wanderlust: Cornwall

We’ve only been to Cornwall once for a holiday and it was about four weeks before I had Athena. Therefore my energy levels weren’t that high and there were a few things we chose not to do, although climbing all the steps up to the top of Tintagel Castle wasn’t one of them! The lady selling tickets even asked me…

Planes and boats with the iCandy Raspberry

Athena loves planes. Sam loves planes, possibly because his dad was a pilot. His sister works with private jets too so it seems to be in the blood! We decided to give Athena a treat last week and take her to see the planes at Shoreham Airport, although it’s actually Brighton and Hove city airport these days! We took a…

Sleep Pod sun shade from Cheeky Rascals

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently you may be aware we’re in the middle of a heatwave! As someone who carries Arlo in a sling 90% of the time this has meant that we both get sticky and I get paranoid about him getting sunburnt! So this week he’s spent more time in the buggy than ever before…

#WhatmyKidDid and Arlo at 3 months

Welcome to #WhatMyKidDid for July! First, an Arlo update.  Arlo is now three months old! Seriously insane, in some ways it feels like he only arrived last week and other times it’s like he’s always been here! Size: Chunky Monkey! I’m not sure exactly how much he weighs but he’s definitely gaining weight so that’s the main thing! Its weigh in…

In june I…

So almost forgot to write this up but here we go, with a few hours left of June   In June I… Started looking for a property to buy, dun dun dunnnnn! Got confused by everything mortgage related! Gained a TWO YEAR OLD. madness. Watched Cinderella (not as bad as I expected) filmwise and Telly wise I’m watching Humans, My…