Encouraging babies to enjoy books
Oooh, I found this test your vocab to test the size of your vocabulary. Ok, so it’s nothing to do with children (well, if you have kids, you can test theirs as well which will help with the researchers), but…
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Photo queuing
I love getting proper professional photos taken of my baby. Of course I take loads of my own photos, but you can never get a nice background (unless you want to set the place up properly). It’s lovely to have…
Baby separation anxiety at swimming
One of the groups we decided to do was swimming. I’m really keen that N will enjoy being in the water, not be scared of it and be a good swimmer at an early age. I quite enjoy swimming although…
Love those (nearly) new toys
Yesterday was the first local NCT nearly new toy sale. It was different to the usual sales in that it was a table top one, just selling toys/games/books, so people booked a table and sold their own stuff. I wasn’t…
Could it be Magic…land? Magicland soft play
It always used to be easy to meet up with friends and babies when they were tiny. They slept or fed but generally would stay in their prams out of the way while we conversed, drank coffee and ate cake…
Listography: Top 5 Randoms
This week’s listography from KateTakes5 is top 5 random things I like. They have to be explicit, and not generic (eg I like chocolate is not unusual for most people!). I can think of lots of things I don’t like, but…
Christening Day
Okay so it was a while ago now, but thought I’d better share what we did for N’s christening (or is it baptism? I never know. I call it christening, the vicar said baptism, but he never corrected me so…
Family visits
We don’t get to see my nan that frequently. Well, my mum does (it’s my dad’s mum rather than hers) her duty and regularly visits, takes her shopping & out for lunch, but as my nan never goes out any…
Listography: Top 5 famous folk I used to fancy
Well, no posts recently due to having a 24 hour bug, and now having a horrible cold. Plus the OH’s now ill so I’m sorting out N all day with no time to spare. But, saw this listography and thought…
Nappy change wriggler
Arrrgghhh! My guess is that there’s lots of mums (and dads, grans etc) struggling with their wriggling babies during nappy change times. Ours has started to get ridiculous over the last couple of days with N flipping straight onto his…