Learning names
It’s taken until now for N to really get to understand and learn names. He’s obviously known his own for a long time – both the proper word (although being long, he can’t say it in full similar to most…
Thoughtful discussion
School dinners vs packed lunches
Last week, there were indignant voices from parents and others about proposals that schools should ban packed lunches (ok, so I’m behind…) I’m all for making life easy as a parent, and having good school lunches would definitely do that. …
Bedtime snuggles and cotbed escapes
Sometimes toddlers (and babies) can be really unpredictable. They might knock something off routine, and you’ll be none the wiser why unless they can communicate clearly what the problem is. When it comes to bedtimes, they’re often the most mysterious…
Interview with an almost 2 1/2 year old
These interview questions have been going round my Facebook friends recently. While I can have a conversation with N, he’s not really got into ‘favourites’ and ‘bests’, so I wasn’t sure how it would go. Needless to say, even after…
Water play – water, water, everywhere
Spookily at the moment, water is taking a big part in my life…the main part of my job is water at the moment, so there’s no getting away from it when N gets involved with water as well. Generally N’s…
Jumping all over the world…on trampolines
One of N’s favourite activities at the moment is jumping. He’s been able to jump both feet off the floor since about 20 months old (although a pitiful height obviously). Along with the bouncing, he usually shouts out ‘jump’ every…
Guest post: Baa Baa Black Sheep: In Defence of Decision
Although the strapline for this blog says it’s about the journey of having a child when you’re not a baby person, it’s not often that I specifically write about that. But when my guest writer approached me about writing a…
Bounty and freebies
If you’ve not been on social media much recently, you might not be aware of the hoo-ha that’s going on with Bounty reps and photographing newborns in hospitals. Mumsnet have started the Bounty Mutiny (cool name), and there’re various petitions…
Eggstra-ordinary – egg box appearance
Last night we came in from our family birthday party celebrations to see a large egg box that someone had left on the table in the hall. Interesting I thought, and moved it to the kitchen out of the way…
Hand washing
If N continues the way he is, he’ll be spot on his hygiene. He’s still a big fan of washing his hands, helped I expect, by the continued excitement of running water. No idea why children find it so exciting,…
Mud kitchens
Nursery have a new feature…a mud kitchen. I used to think N was bad with sand, but at least that was dust-able off (and even when he mixed it with water, it wasn’t too awful on the washing front). But…