Doolally hour
My friends and I always used to refer to the time between 4 til bedtime as the witching hour, as it was always the time that the babies started screeching – for food, for playtime, for sleep etc. We had…
Thoughtful discussion
Nursery mums (and dads)
For the second day on the trot, we’ve had to hang around at nursery waiting for one parent (oh ok, it’s been the mums that are the culprits) who’s hogging the person doing child handovers and day run through, while…
Little chef in the making
N loves to help me cook. Actually, maybe not the actual cooking process, more the being able to see what’s going on. He gets really ratty if I’m preparing food and I’ve not pulled a chair over for him to…
Toddler free luxuries
Today I’ve had a day off work with N still in nursery as he has less ‘holiday’ allocation for nursery than I obviously get from work. My car was going in to service and for MOT, so I thought I’d…
Conversations at the petrol pump
I obviously take after my mum, as random people always seem to start talking to me. (Can’t understand why, I’m sure I must have an ‘I’m on a mission’ face on – maybe it needs more work!) The last occasion…
Cradle cap returns
Cradle cap’s a strange thing. Either your baby has it or doesn’t, there’s seemingly no reason why. If they get it badly, it’s obvious you need to try and help solve it whether that be massaging in oil or using…
Clocks back, full moon
It’s been a bit of a spooky time over the last week what with the clocks going back, new moons and today Halloween. We haven’t celebrated Halloween this year (living in the middle of nowhere means you can get away…
Choosing names and learning to write names
When you choose a name for your baby there’s lots of questions you ask yourself, unless you just go with the name you’ve always loved and always intended. What do you like and hate in names (e.g. alliteration with surname…
Sunday supermarket sourness
Today we had to nip to the supermarket (again!). We had a choice of car parking space due to no-one really knowing that it was open longer hours on Sundays due to the Olympics relaxation of trading hours. We were…
Toddler training and toddler chores ideas
It’s great having a toddler…if you train them well, you can have your own little servant. They can even start having their own responsibilities. Toddler chores. We’ve not got quite that far but N does have a touch of it…
What makes one baby group work and another not?
Over the past year and a half N & I have been to lots of different baby & toddler groups. We were lucky at the beginning having had a group of good NCT friends where we could all agree to…