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What a difference a fortnight makes
Do you remember that I said how we were interested to see how Baby E would react to his baby-swim classes? Well, he reacted in a way that we really had not expected. He screamed and cried when he was...
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year! I’m taking a small break for the next couple of weeks and focusing on family time, so I think it will just be weekly portraits from me, so I wish you all the...
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Ear plugs required
Here is a bit of a conundrum: Baby E’s hair frequently ends up looking like a complete and utter tangly mess, but when it is freshly washed and dried, he has the most gorgeous curls. The problem is...
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Stockholm globe from Nordpil – a review
After writing about the Stockholm globe from Nordpil, Hugo from the company contacted me to ask if we would like to try out assembling a globe and report back on how we got on. We jumped at the chance...
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Dummy no more
Little O is growing up before our eyes so quickly these days that I might very well have to start calling him Big O on here instead. The weekend before last, he announced that his dummy (which he only...
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How not to visit Santa
We visited Tomte/Father Christmas at NK at the end of last week. Still, it is a 50% improvement on our trip to see Tomte last year…
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Mamma love
I got some cuddles this evening with Baby E. Well, until Husband came back into the room, and then I was abandoned. Lovely while it lasted though.
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Parenting: the hardest job there is
Yesterday was one of those days, you know, when this parenting gig just seems too hard, too complicated. Parenting on the survival level. We have some problems recently with Little O being too rough...
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The hardest job, but the most rewarding
And now everything changes yet again. Most likely this is a just a temporary change, so I am going to enjoy it while it lasts. The boys are friends this week, and are, on the whole, playing well...
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Hello Autumn
Hello Autumn by englishmamma featuring h&m scarves H m scarve $6.43 - hm.com Zara Leather Desert Boot zara.com Skjorta, $15 - lindex.com We had our first frost of the autumn this week, and it is...
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Developmentally speaking
Another week has flown by and I’ve not managed to post anything. And this time, it hasn’t even been because of fun activities (like making fascinators, last week), but because of work [sigh]… The week...
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Boys on bikes – how to explore by bicycle
We had a breakthrough last week: a cycling breakthrough. We have now got the boys on bikes thanks to new child seats and we have managed to get out and explore by bicycle four days out of seven last...
View ArticleThe pox – take two
But of course… Just when we thought we had escaped the chicken pox for E this time round, he comes down with it. So we had O back at preschool for three days before we had to pull E out. The great...
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Potty training saga
It wasn’t until I started to write this post and looked back at posts from last year that I realised that our potty training saga has been going on since last June. We wanted to get him out of nappies...
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Tips to ease chicken pox
Thank you, chicken pox, for those “interesting” few weeks, but we learned a couple of tricks for dealing with you and since you won’t be coming back to us again, I thought I would pass on these tips...
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Potty training the easy way
The boys are so similar in so many ways and yet they are also very much their own little people: chalk and cheese. Potty training is a very good example of this. It was slow going to get O potty...
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Learning how to potty train boys
A few weekends ago we packed the potty away. And I have to say that I am glad to see the back of it. The boys preferred to drag it into the playroom and sit on it there, like a throne. No, no, no. So,...
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How to survive travelling with children
As the summer season approaches, we’ve started planning our holidays. We love to travel and explore new places. Our trips have not always been without incident though. I thought I’d share what we have...
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Western Cape, South Africa with children
When we visited South Africa for the first time in 2013, we had no idea that we would fall head over heels with the country. We love visiting so much that we have just booked our fourth trip there....
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