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What a difference a year makes
Well, actually, what a difference a year and a few months make. After I posted the weekly portraits of the boys, with Little O sitting on the pig at Skansen, I decided to look back into my photo...
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This and that
Image: Localgraphics I can sympathise with this after the summer holidays… …and this holiday experience too. Some great childhood memories were sparked by this. From a US point of view but raises an...
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R2BC – the police car edition
It’s been quite a long time since I joined in with Reasons To Be Cheerful – a really long time – but I’ve decided it’s time to start linking up at Michelle‘s again. So here are this week’s reasons: -...
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No, no, nap, no
These days Little O is just growing up so fast. In fact, in his first week back at preschool, we had a call asking if we would like him to take up an available spot in the next class up from the...
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Skansen – something new, somewhere old
We love Skansen. And what’s not to love about it? History, fairground rides, pony rides, bears, wolves and wolverines (yes, seriously). We love it so much that both boys are using it as the subject of...
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Out of the mouths of babes
These past few weeks we’ve noticed that Little O’s language has taken another leap forwards. And it has led to him saying some very funny things. On arriving at the beach: - “It’s very big.” - “What’s...
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Making (some) sense of the mystery
Since I returned to work in mid-February, I’ve had to go and pick up the boys from nursery (well, mainly Baby E) on a handful of occasions. And that has meant trying to negotiate the mystery that is...
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How I learned to stop worrying and love dinnertime
Recently on Facebook, I posted a dinnertime cry for help. Our evening meals have gradually been getting worse and worse as the boys play up, refuse to eat, throw food and egg each other on. I had...
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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...
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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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