I’m going to Britmums Live!
That is, I’m going to Britmums Live! if I can sort out childcare. Being summer does cause issues as farming is a bit up in the air at the best of times so it’s hard to get my OH to…
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Not so sunny BloxFest
Last year’s BloxFest (my old village’s May festival of stalls, food, crafts and 3 stages of music in 3 of the village pubs) was great fun, and packed out due to the great weather. This year the weather’s cold and…
Review: Playfoam – sensory play fun
When he was younger, N was never really that keen on getting mucky during play. I tried gloop, paint and the other usual messy play ideas, but he only really wanted to use utensils to play with rather than his…
Radio rocker
Today is/was Radio 2’s Today programme – all day they’re celebrating the orchestra, and on each show they’ve got different orchestral sections playing pop music and the like. Having played clarinet and saxophone (with a smattering of piano chucked in)…
Biting toddlers
Does your toddler have bad habits like biting? N doesn’t bite. On occasions when he’s playing he might go to hit me, but so far I’ve been able to just tell him that ‘hitting’ not nice, it hurts people, and…
Toddlerisms #8: MY mummy
It’s been a while since I shared some Toddlerisms on the blog. N’s been a bit slow on providing amusing phrases, but he’s started to become really protective over us, ie his mummy and daddy. Nursery is where it’s been…
Summer picnics
Now we’ve had a bit of sun and heat (it’s taken until May this year), it’s been the perfect opportunity to get out and have a picnic alongside lots of outdoor play. We don’t have garden furniture (not really got…
Getting dressed
Although N’s been helping me dress him for a while (arms go in the sleeves when I hold the coat or jumper) and he’s proficient at removing items – can take his coat off, pull his trousers up and down,…
Bank holiday racing
A glorious bank holiday weekend meant a chance to head over to a local point to point race meet
Childcare Gurus
The BBC magazine website yesterday had an article about six childcare gurus who changed parenting. It was an interesting read, and although I hadn’t heard of the earlier people (pre-Penelope Leach), I’d heard of the ideas behind some earlier parenting…
The thought of swimming…
And so to Saturday again. Swimming. We love swimming now (after almost a year of hating it and having serious water wobbles from N and me), so I have to be careful in the morning not to shout too much about…
