These sports markers give me such horrendous PE flashbacks; the gym teacher (Miss Lawton) barking instructions at us as we stood shivering in the cold, watching her jog along in her shell suit, throwing the coloured markers down on the grass as she went. "GIRLS! This...
Toddler, Baby and Me: The Thirteen Month Update
I must stop writing these updates at the last minute - although, why change what is now such an established habit? I think that the majority of the monthly updates I've written (and I've done one a month, without fail, since July 2015) have been hurriedly typed at a...
Quality Time on the Changing Mat | AD
This is my third and final post with Huggies Pure Wipes and I wanted to talk about how nappy-changing time can be one of the most important times of the day in terms of connecting with your baby and having a bit of fun. If you have an absolutely jam-packed schedule of...
Winter Warmers: The Higher-Tog Sleepsuits
Just a quick post: some higher-tog sleepsuits for those with f-f-f-f-freezing houses. (To be fair, it's not that bad now that we've worked out the heating, but it still gets a little bit nippy in the small hours!) Most babies and toddlers are just fine in the 2.0 tog...
Toddler, Baby and Me: The One Year Update
This is where I'm supposed to write "how time flies!" "I can't believe Ted is a year old already!" or "it seems like only yesterday that Ted was a tiny newborn wrapped in a little blanket!" But actually, the past year has felt exactly like a year. Perhaps it's because...
Parenting Highs and Lows: January 2018
A new feature for you, to supplement the written monthly updates that you read here on the blog; Parenting Highs and Lows will be a chatty, rambling video about all of the good and bad things that have happened over the course of the month - struggles and triumphs,...
The Best Ever Kids’ Ice Lollies!
I know that it feels very unseasonal to be talking about ice lollies, but they're the most-requested treat in our household (both me with my Mint Magnums and Angelica with her Mini Milks!) regardless of the temperature outside. Our appetite for "frozen things on...
The Parka Family
Ted is now the proud owner of a miniature parka - the last member of the family to get one. I virtually live in my green parkas - I have a few in various states of disrepair and so I wear the really scuzzy one for being in the garden and my posher one for town. (I...
My Most-Used Natural Baby Products | AD
In my second post with Huggies Pure Wipes (the first one, The Art of Nappy Changing, is here) I want to run through some of my most-used baby products for bath and body. I could fill pages and pages with reviews of all of the things I've tried (I use them on myself as...
Inside Ted’s Nursery: It’s All Change
What with all of this sleep talk (Ted is sleeping through, just about - read the latest update here) I thought I'd touch upon some of the changes we made to Ted's cot and nursery set-up. Because before we went in with stronger sleep tactics (change to routine,...
How I’m Getting My Baby To Sleep Through The Night…
OK so I'm going to - tentatively - put it out there that my baby sleep-inducing methods might actually be working. We've had five nights in a row of solid sleep from 11pm-7am, which is simply unheard of until now. It's a revelation. (So long as you ignore the night...
A Letter to my “First Time Mum” Self | AD
When Vicks BabyRub got in touch with me to see whether or not I would like to write this post, my first thought wasn't "ooh, what would I tell myself as a first time Mum?" but "oh my God, Vicks do a BABY RUB?" I can't tell you how many times I lamented the fact that...
