For my next self-appointed assignment with my new Nikon D3200 camera I decided to give taking pictures at an evening event a go! I wanted to take pictures in a darker environment of both people and of interesting objects and when I was invited to a local children’s museum for the launch of their latest exhibition I knew it would be the right scene for the pictures I wanted to capture. I knew there would be lots of people, it would be […]
Florence is a big craft fan and would happily spend hours upon dedicated hours paying great attention to detail in her work. She’s only three but already is very artistic and I’m extremely proud of how clever she is with it. She colours inside the lines, can draw people with heads, bodies, limbs and proper faces with hair and I just love to watch her work before proudly displaying the latest on our fridge. She loves anything crafty really and […]
We are mainly doing baby led weaning with Jimmy because that’s what he dictates. I find that he rarely will accept food on a spoon so I mainly give him finger foods and it works much better for him. He likes to eat and enjoys meal times whereas Florence never did so I’m just happy that he’s eating anything at all! Baby led weaning can be a messy process and while I’m happy for finger food to fly around I’m […]
Last night we were lucky enough to be invited to come and watch ‘Madagascer Live‘ at Wembley! The touring show is here in London for 3 nights only so what a treat for us! We are, as you may know if you’re a frequent visitor to my blog, massive fans of theatre! Theatre of any kind! But it never gets more exciting than seeing something live in a massive arena like Wembley! Often when we see something on such a massive […]
We’re back from our half term stay with my Mum and I have to say, I’ve thoroughly got the holiday blues… It doesn’t help that the weather outside where I live is cold, grey and wet today… It’s the sort of day where you just want to curl up and dream of the summer. So I am. I mentioned in my post on Friday that we have already planned a couple of little breaks for this year as well as […]
From very early on I established a bath after supper and before bed routine for Florence. It is, I hasten to add, the only routine I have ever put in place and continued with and Jimmy has just followed suit. I’m just not the kind of Mum who does routines in general I guess but we do usually stick to this one and it works. It helps them relax and unwind while having a splashing good time before getting in […]
For a while now I have wanted a steamer to clean certain things in the house. After getting my Vax Bare Floor Pro which we reviewed a while back and seeing how well it cleans the floors with very little effort it confirmed to me that steaming might just be the way forward. For things like grouting in the bathroom where I’m otherwise spending hours with a toothbrush scrubbing away! The cooker as well, that takes ages and you know what, it […]
This information has come to my attention so thought I would share… Educating the children of London for 110 years! London Early Years Foundation celebrates success this March 2013 is a momentous year for the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) as the most respected social enterprise in the Capital celebrates providing first-class day care and parenting support for 110 years. The registered Charity, which reaches out to a diverse mix of families across London will be celebrating its success by offering parents […]
Having made our own puppet theatre this weekend, we decided that we really needed to have some home made puppets to go with it! Well, any excuse to get some glue and glitter out eh, and that’s just me! Florence loves decorating wooden spoons and we decided we would make our puppets using some as they are very cheap in the supermarket but when we got there we found some wooden spatulas for just 28p (Asda) and thought they would […]
Last night Florence and Jonny were playing a new made up game of ‘Puppet Show’. They were just using the puppets and toys at my Mum’s and making up stories and performing them to each other in the play room. It was so inventive and clever and making them laugh in bucket loads so this afternoon I decided we would use an old box and make our own proper puppet theatre for their brilliant shows to be performed in! We used: A […]
