Christmas is my favourite time of year and yesterday we took some time out to make a gingerbread house with my youngest niece. It’s become a bit of a tradition and this year we tried a kit from Dr Oetker, which included the gingerbread, icing and sweets. It was really simple to put together. Daddy assembled the house and placed strategic dollops of icing and my niece decorated with marshmallows, jellies and smarties. The finished gingerbread house – the perfect holiday craft and it only took 30 minutes!
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Last week my steriliser had a spectacular meltdown in the microwave. To my horror I opened the door and this is what I found: One quick tweet later and the lovely people @TommeeTippee_UK had despatched a replacement steriliser. Fortunately we had a spare cold water steriliser which we could use for a few days so we just had to replace the bottles. We’ve used the microwave steriliser since Edward was born and it’s fantastic. It’s small, compact, easy to load, and holds four bottles and accessories. It sterilises in just 8 minutes and the contents remain sterile for 24 hours…
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We’ve now been using our lovely beginning….bath products at every bath time for the last week. Edward is taking his responsibilities as a Maclaren Kid Tester very seriously and we’ve been looking at each product, having a chew on the packaging and smelling each bottle before use. Bath time is usually quite simple as we generally only use E45 bath oil but we’ve been pleasantly surprised how easy it’s been to incorporate the Maclaren range of products during and after Edward’s bath time. Edward loves the bath products, they make his skin very soft and help him relax. We usually…
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As you know Edward is an official Maclaren Kid Tester and he was recently sent beginning… by Maclaren bath products to test out in his everyday life. The other day we were very excited to receive a parcel containing beginning… by Maclaren. The packaging is beautiful and just what you would expect from such a well known brand. Edward loves anything new so was eager to hold (and suck) the packaging. The travel kit for baby contains miniatures of their natural and organic-based ingredients without harmful toxic or chemical additives. As a new mum I try to use only organic…
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We’ve been using the Quinny Zapp Xtra for the last couple of months now and our third assignment is to spread the word about the Zapp Xtra. As you may know the Zapp Xtra was designed with feedback from Quinny Zapp users. Modifications include a forward or rear facing seat which also reclines and is suitable from birth. The Zapp Xtra is sold with car seat adapters for all Maxi-Cosi infant seats, a hood and rain cover and the (optional) Zapp basket. Edward loves the Quinny Zapp Xtra and finds it very comfortable and sleeps soundly in it. We always…
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The lovely people at Stokke asked if we would be interested in reviewing a Table Top for our Tripp Trapp. Now we all love our Tripp Trapp. It makes mealtimes easier as we can all sit at the table together, it enables me to put Edward somewhere safe whilst I’m busy in the kitchen, it grows with your child and it’s the only item of baby furniture that I would recommend to anyone. To be honest though, I was a bit sceptical about the point of the Table Top. When I opened the box I was pleasantly surprised to find…
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…the snow finally came. I’d been watching the news about the snow fall and feeling left out until last night. About 10pm the snow started falling and barely stopped all day. Fortunately my husband was discharged from hospital today so we decided to take Edward for a walk so he could see his first snow. This was also our first opportunity to see how the Quinny coped in the snow. So we bundled ourselves up in layers of clothing and off we went. The Quinny handled well in the snow. I had to push it quite hard to get it…
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I am very excited to tell you that Edward has been chosen as a Maclaren Kid Tester! He won’t be testing other kids but as part of Team Maclaren we have the opportunity to test beginning….by Maclaren bath products! A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a bottle of their new Balancing Facial Mist for mum’s on their Facebook page so I can’t wait to try more products 🙂 We’ll be reviewing the products throughout December so check back to read our thoughts. You can also join Maclaren on Facebook and also follow them on Twitter.…
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This year we’re very excited, ok, I’m very excited, as it’s bubba’s first Christmas. This means I get to go completely over the top with buying Christmas presents, putting the decorations up and generally getting into the Christmas spirit earlier than ever. So I was very happy to review Snowflake, the new CD from The Rainbow Collections. Following the success of Lullaby, a children’s bedtime CD, and Toybox, a collection of nursery rhymes for playtime, the Rainbow Collections has released the final album in its trilogy – Snowflake. Snowflake brings to life traditional Christmas songs. The album includes 16…