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Oh, you know what… behave.

July 13, 2012 by

Light and fluffy. Light and fluffy. Must try harder. If this 8 seconds of video doesn’t make you smile, I don’t know what will 🙂 This is Bene in his new Stokke Sleepi. There is no way we could have afforded this – he would have had a travel cot – but we were gifted […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Reviews, Thinking Tagged With: 5 month old, baby bed, baby cot, depression, Stokke cot, Stokke Sleepi

A head filled with heavy nothing.

July 13, 2012 by

Oh dear. No blogging. We’ve actually been having a good time, if you count charging around like loons a good time. I could write lots of posts filled with interesting stuff. I will do. But not here. If you read my other blog (and thank you to the people who do and commented, I really […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: anger, baby blues, butterness, fear, grief, infant loss, pnd, rage

Where'd the Bene go? Here he is :)

July 7, 2012 by

Gratuitous boy pics. You know you want them. He looks a bit bigger in that blanket these days. Did I mention we all completely love him? He rolled today, proper rolled with arm out from under and head up. Rolling and sitting in a week.

Filed Under: Benedict, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby rolling, baby sitting, five months old baby

Further Tudor Doll Costume Merriment.

July 5, 2012 by

I’ve been enjoying watching a real change in my girls over the last few days. Amelie and Josie have both really persisted at sewing Tudor clothes for their Groovy Girl dolls and have got better and better as they went along. Both sewed gather petticoats in jersey fabric (idea for a doll, falls really nicely) […]

Filed Under: History etc, Home Education, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: dolls clothes, Kentwell, learning about tudors, living history, making tudor clothes, Tudor clothing, tudor dolls clothes

Blogging like the old days.

July 3, 2012 by

The girls want o make Tudor costumes. Normal practise is to make rough versions first and get the hang of it. I thought we needed to start very small; groovy girl small. Rather to my surprise, Josie has managed amazingly well. She’s completed, all on her own and with increasing neatness, a petticoat with waistband […]

Filed Under: Home Education Tagged With: drawing animals, making dolls clothes, tudor costumes

A day in the past.

July 2, 2012 by

Try to remain calm… We left the house, all of us, in one go. We went somewhere. We had a nice time. Miracles! Lots of our friends have started doing Tudor reenactment at Kentwell Hall. You might think we would be dead certs for this, I certainly have always wanted to do something of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, History etc, Home Education, Trips Out, Uncategorized Tagged With: How Tudors Lived, Kentwell Day, Kentwell Tudor Day, Kentwell Visit, Tudor Life, Tudor re-enactment

More Sport Hama Bead Designs & Home Ed Life.

June 30, 2012 by

So the Olympics are coming and my sporty girls have entered into the spirit it and helped me get some Hama Bead patterns together. They’ve been very creative and we’ve put a free set of ideas (I’ve lost my design disk… again 🙁 ) on BeadMerrily for Hama Bead enthusiasts. There are a few Maddy […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads Tagged With: free hama bead designs, free sport hama bead ideas, gold medal in hama beads, hama bead gymnast, hama bead medals, hama bead olympic torch, hama bead swimmer, hama beads, ideas for olympic crafts, olympics in hama beads, taekwondo in hama beads

When I was just a little boy…

June 28, 2012 by

Dear Ben, You are 5 months old. You are part of us. You have been here long enough that your sisters don’t always want to marvel over you and sometimes want to hand you back. This is amazing; I hope you will never know how amazing. This month they have forgiven the world enough not […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Letters to Bene Tagged With: 5 month old, baby at 5 months, baby blowing raspberries, baby learning to sit, early sound copying

Coming up for air. Breastfeeding amendments.

June 24, 2012 by

A few days ago I admitted defeat over exclusive breast feeding. It hasn’t really worked for Bene and I all that well; he has gained weight brilliantly (he’s over 16lbs at just short of five months, which given he was 5 1/2 lbs at one point is quite impressive) and he sleeps all night which […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Fimo Models, Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: 5 months, breast feeding, hungry baby, mixed feeding, weaning, weaning to solids

Finished it Friday: Ben's Cardigan

June 22, 2012 by

I fear I left it too long with this one. I started it when he was a few weeks old and got distracted, thought it wouldn’t matter because he was so small and then he got huge through doing all the feeding that stopped me knitting and now this is clearly only going to fit […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Creative Every Day, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: blue baby cardigan, easy baby knitting, finished it friday, green baby cardigan, knitted baby cardigan, sirdar baby crofter, sirdar patterns

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