family life & travels
When you were expecting, you probably spent some time designing and decorating a lovely and comfortable nursery for your baby-to-be. Now that your baby is a lively toddler, you are quickly realising that it is time to upgrade their room into one that is more suitable for a walking/running/growing child. While new parents decorate the
While we were away on holiday over the past couple of weeks, Chloe had her third birthday! One and two I could cope with, but three?! It is just so official. A proper little lady on our hands, no longer a toddler or a baby. She is the sass queen and full of chatter and
This is an advertorial post in collaboration with Cow & Gate Growing Up Milk. Now that Max is at school, it is just Chloe and I during the day. I remember having these one-on-one days with Max way before Chloe was born and they were so special. So until September, Chloe and I had never
It seems like baby proofing your home can be pretty straightforward. As they’re crawling you just need to make sure things are out of their reach, right? I am still baffled by how people have little trinkets and ornaments around their fireplaces in photographs when they’ve got a toddler. With my two, it would have
One thing that I find hard when we travel, is deciding whether to take a stroller or not. Chloe is at that age (2) where she likes to walk some of the time. But with only little legs she gets tired easily. And she is still at the age where she will have an afternoon
When you have a new baby, you hear from everyone what they think are the things that you need. There are plenty of things that you don’t need to. It all becomes obvious as you go on. But what are some of the must haves that you need for a toddler? I’ve been reviewing a
Chloe is nearly two but I don’t have plans to potty train her until the summer really. So for now she is still in nappies. I thought a nice step for her might be to wear pull-up style nappy pants, to get her ready for being potty trained. We have been reviewing Moony Nappies recently,
print gifted from my friend Michelle at Cre8tive Hands Chloe has the smallest room in the house. For a long time it was a bit of a junk room turned office. It was used as a kind of dressing room too so there were lots of random bits in her room. When we play it
Max is my little milk monkey (is that a thing?!). Regardless, he loves drinking milk and has done so since I stopped breastfeeding him when he was 9 months young. Drinks milk with his breakfast, milk with his lunch and milk with his dinner (plus some water in-between of course, parenting police) – he can’t
