New Tricks
We’re rapidly approaching a year old (well in a few weeks time), and N’s been practising some of his new favourite tricks. I love the way he just practises over and over again a though he’s so excited that he…
Family life
Everything family oriented on bubbablue and me, parenting, milestones, children, growing up
Settling in at nursery
After his last settling in session yesterday, today N starts at his day nursery properly. Yesterday’s session was for 2 hours to include lunch. He did cling slightly when I went to hand him over, and was a little upset…
One born every minute – Dads
One Born Every Minute starts again on Channel 4 at 9pm this Wednesday 4th January, with the theme of dads. They’ve linked up with NetMums to get people to share their birth experiences and here’s mine with my thoughts on the…
Oh Christmas tree
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I was struggling to get agreement to put the christmas tree up…excuses given mainly revolved around “it’s dangerous with a nearly one year old”. Thankfully, after a lot of moaning and hints…
1st birthday preparations
Well, I say 1st birthday preparations, but actually I’ve not started thinking about them, other to agree that our NCT joint 1st birthday party can be held at our house, and to debate whether we need to have a specific…
Nursery newbie
It’s now less than a month to go before N starts at day nursery as I go back to work then. I had a bit of a panic when I realised I’d not heard anything since sending off my cheque…
A-Z of baby led weaning food experiences
Food’s always a worrying thing when it comes to babies. If it’s your first, you’re probably scared of weaning and how it’ll go, then once they’re eating it’s a worry about how much or what they should be eating. I…
Flirting baby
My boy’s a flirt. Even when he’s ill (which he’s been this weekend). He loves people and has always been a smiler; whenever we’re out and about, I’ll see people smiling and talking to him across the room, and when…
Our hand foot and mouth experience with a baby
We’ve been quite lucky compared to some of my friends, in that N’s not really been ill much…a touch of diarrhoea, a couple of colds, but thankfully nothing’s really hit him too badly (touch wood this continues). But last week…
Keeping in touch days
I’m officially off maternity leave now (as of yesterday)…so getting paid again (yippee!) as I’m now on annual leave until I start back in January. I’ve been doing a few keeping in touch days which are a great idea –…
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…
