Before Christmas I was introduced to the world of CEWE Photobooks when I made my cousin a wonderful photobook of her wedding using their services! The photobook honestly came back like a magnificent professional album which I would expect if I had employed a professional photographer to come and record my wedding! The camera work was all by little old me but using their incredibly easy website I managed to make my novice snaps look like amazing shots to remember! […]

The festive period, for us, is VERY busy with celebrations because not only do we have Christmas but we have two birthdays as well! Florence was born on New Year’s Eve and Jonny celebrates his on the second of January so we don’t stop the partying till after then! Florence had her brilliant ‘I Can Cook’ party with all her friends a few days before Christmas which I wrote about here and even if she’d only enjoyed it half as much […]

I always call Jimmy a baby but as Florence pointed out recently, really and truly he’s a toddler now! He’s even reached the 20lb mark in weight which means the infant car seat he’s been in since birth is no longer required and a new size 1 car seat like his sisters had to be installed in the car instead! I realise he’s quite old to only be moving up now at 20 months but because he’s so slight, just […]

The build up to Christmas was such a fun one and we had many, many giggles with our elves who came to bring mischief and mayhem to the Rock ‘n’ Roller Baby house! As well as causing rip roaring giggles by planting pants in the Christmas tree and turning our milk blue they also brought little gifts to whet our appetite for Christmas day! At the beginning of December it seemed like a long time to go until the big […]

Florence’s birthday is on New Year’s Eve and this year she decided to have her party before Christmas rather than after. In the summer whilst at the Lollibop Festival and having enjoyed watching Katie Ashworth live on stage with her ‘I Can Cook’ show it was chosen as the theme for this year’s bash and we’ve been busy planning ever since! I’m big on birthday parties, I really enjoy organising them and this one gave me tremendous pleasure. Florence loved it […]

A few weeks ago we were invited to the Ideal Home show by CEWE Photobook. They wanted us to come and enjoy the show with them while they also let us have a play around with their photobook service on line at their stand. On the day they were there to help us and show us first hand some of the things we could do with the books and looking at some of the hard copies of other people’s that […]

I can’t believe we are in the final week! Not 25 sleeps to go but just 5! This month has gone super quickly and it must all be down to the fun we are having with our elves! This week they have been more nice than naughty it has to be said… They left us some chocolates for the Christmas tree! Florence thought this was absolutely wonderful and immediately set about decorating the tree with them. Look at her in […]

The end of year and the end of term, I am beginning to realise, spells a bit of a burn out in my little girl. She’s been busy, busy and on the go as always and I think it’s just about time she has a wind down and a bit of a rest. I forget sometimes that she IS still only three years old and looking at her this week has made me realise that she’s a pretty amazing three […]

Florence is learning to read and she’s doing incredibly well! She sounds words out which I think is quite impressive in itself for her age but what’s even better is that she knows what most of the letters look like and can actually write them down herself too! She mostly writes three or four letter words and people’s names which is interesting because somehow she does understand ‘little letters’ and ‘big letters’. She just finds it a very enjoyable process […]