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Ben at 14 Weeks

May 4, 2012 by

He’s changed so much this week that a short post on his achievements seems just right. Over the last fortnight he learned that breast full time is better than anything else. He started by refusing formula, then moved on to refusing breast milk in a bottle. He’s back to fully breastfed now and we got […]

Filed Under: Benedict Tagged With: 14 week baby, 14 weeks old, baby discovers hands, sleeping in crib

Finished it Friday: Nina's cardigan.

May 4, 2012 by

I’m properly proud of this, as it’s my first ever completed baby clothing item and I think it came out okay too. Ben’s is still waiting to be made up but I wanted to get Nina’s in the post so I finished hers off first. That’s Ben’s on the right. I think I liked the […]

Filed Under: Knitting & Sewing, Uncategorized Tagged With: easy knitting, knitted baby crdigan, pink cardy, sirdar, sirdar baby crofter, sirdar patterns

Maths in bits (of plasticine) – fractions for beginners.

May 1, 2012 by

If you know me at all, you know that large elements of my maths teaching revolves around cakes on plates. It’s served me well over the years. In fact, there is a series of blog articles in it somewhere; I’ve been meaning to do it for ages. My main home ed maxim is that there […]

Filed Under: Maths Tagged With: cake maths, cakes on plates, fraction worksheets, home education maths, practical fractions, teaching fractions

The Smacking Thing

April 29, 2012 by

I guess there is every chance that by the end of this post you’ll hate me. Or worse, be deeply disappointed in me. Or angry with me. But there is something I would like to say because I’m a little tired of sanctimonious parenting posts preaching perfection at me. I’ve been meaning to say it […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent Tagged With: bringing up children, discipline, growth in parenting, parenting, smacking

Are you calling me darling?

April 27, 2012 by

Dear Ben, Today you are 3 months old. Do you know that even now I find it hard to believe I am not typing “you should be 3 months old”? I still find it hard to believe our luck. I’m not sure that I ever was very good at trusting everything would generally work out […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Letters to Bene, Uncategorized Tagged With: 13 week old baby, 3 months old, letters to my baby

I went to blog camp.

April 26, 2012 by

Having missed out on the chance to get a ticket because my head was too broken while I was pregnant, I nearly went into rapture when Sally sent me an invite to take up a reserve place. I’ve got lots of time for the way Sally, of Tots100, The MADS and BlogCamp fame, runs her […]

Filed Under: Trips Out Tagged With: #blogcampuk, blog camp birmingham, tots100

Easter Holiday Occupation

April 24, 2012 by

Wow, what a busy few days we’ve had. Ben has had his first night away from home, I’ve had my first day fending for myself in the real world with a baby (!), we’ve had baby jabs and gym competitions and goodness knows what. And we are still dealing with the hopeless reality of BT […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Home Education, Lego, Spring Crafts, Uncategorized Tagged With: easter, easter crafts, easter lego, lego houses, school

Qualifications in life.

April 20, 2012 by

I always thought that when the girls started to get older, the responsibility of exams and qualifications would be the thing that weighed heaviest on me. When you decide to home educate, there are some very obvious milestones that loom up as possible stumbling blocks (did I mix metaphors there or just park some slightly […]

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It's Tricky

April 16, 2012 by

Two nights ago Ben had his first night in a crib, which as you can see from the rather pants picture that I faffed with in an effort to distract myself, is a close to the side of my bed as it can be. I’d say it is as close to my side of the […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict Tagged With: co-sleeping, fear of infant death, moving baby to a crib, new baby after neonatal death, newborn baby

Win a BigJigs Picnic!

April 15, 2012 by

When BigJigs Toys suggested we run a competition with them (disclosure being that we sell lots of BigJigs on PlayMerrily and therefore have a business interest with them!) I thought that with the habitual lovely weather of April approaching, a Picnic Hamper of wooden toy food would be fun. So I’m sitting here getting ready […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bigjigs, bigjigs competition, bigjigs wooden food, wooden play food, wooden toy food

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