(I can’t believe I had to go back to the month Eleanor was born to find a breastfeeding picture. I suppose people don’t just go around taking snaps of me with my boobs out, but still, I spent enough of my time doing it, you’d think there could be more …
Living room > Book corner Yes, this is getting ridiculous, sorry, however, the toy storage items from Vertbaudet won’t be here for a couple of weeks, so I’ve done the other corner of the room and this post will be all about that – the book corner*. I had booked …
It struck me recently how Rosemary and Eleanor both experience extremes of emotion – in different, though sometimes similar, ways. Recently, Eleanor has become very affectionate (and she was pretty affectionate to start with). She is giving constant cuddles (and back pats) and we’re fairly sure she’s been saying ‘I …
Phase One = Living Room No, sorry, this is just the plan. You have to wait until next week for the finished (really hope so, anyway) product. In case you’re wondering what the dickens* I’m talking about, you can read about my crazy storage-sorting mission here. I have now worked …
Did you read yesterday’s review of Audrey Niffenegger’s Her Fearful Symmetry? Did you enter the competition to win a copy for yourself? Today’s Book Week post is a round-up of the girls’ favourite books. They both love their books, though Rosemary is in a phase where she’s decided that she …
We’ve been noticing Eleanor doing things recently, which Rosemary didn’t pick up until much later, and it’s occurred to us that perhaps she’s picking some things up from her sister. It seems like it might be easier for a child to pick things up by copying a child closer to …
I’ve been waiting to write this post for ages and, to be honest, it’s probably a teensy bit premature. You see, instead of writing a post about all the problems we have with getting children and babies to go to sleep and getting them to stay asleep, I wanted to …
So as a parent of a… well, of a child… there are certain tricks or strategies that are required to get the child to do what you want them to do, or not to do what you don’t want them to do – or just to keep you reasonably sane. …
