This morning we were very excited to receive two big boxes full of beautifully packed Plum baby food! I love filling in questionnaires and apparently we won the prize for telling Plum our opinion of fromage frais! The prize was £50 of Plum baby food and we were sent meals, cereals, fromage frais and sauces which we can use now as well as more varieties to use at 7 months +. This was such an amazing prize and fun to open through the layers of tissue paper! Of course we had to sample one so Edward had Raspberry and Rosehip…
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Edward loves all things giraffe (or perhaps I love giraffes and just like to buy him things!). Anyway, he has a couple of Sophie teethers which he really enjoys chewing and a giraffe soft toy. So when I was googling ‘baby’ and ‘giraffe’ I was very happy to see that cuddledry have brought out a handy towel to dry your little one safely. I had to buy it! We use it every bath time and as you can see my little one is happy to snuggle in it after his bath. The idea behind the apron style means you can…
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We spent a lovely weekend with my family on the Isle of Wight which is where I grew up. We managed to squeeze in a visit to the seaside town of Ventnor as well as a trip to the lovely beach at Ryde. Ventnor is full of charity shops and I bought 3 lovely vintage jigsaws for 10p which were a complete bargain. The pieces are large (perfect for chubby baby hands in a couple of years) and reminded me of a chunky wooden jigsaw my grandparents’ kept at their house which I often played with. I’m hoping to get…
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I am really enjoying making things for my little one. He has a great bedtime routine which means by 7 we have evenings to ourselves and I can get my sewing out! A couple of weeks ago I started on some simple tshirts which I finally finished: hedgehog giraffe dinosaur jellyfish I bought the tshirts and followed a simple pattern from Sew Hip magazine. Each animal is decorated with some colourful ric rac and the name of the animal embroidered. I didn’t enjoy the freehand embroidery (they look a little too like a child’s handwriting!) but I love the finished…
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Since my son was only 2 weeks old he developed eczema on his face and body. At first I wasn’t too worried and tried to keep his skin moisturised with olive oil. I only washed him in cooled boiled water without soap and washed his clothes separately with non-bio detergent. However, within 6 weeks the patches got bigger and itchier. I made a appointment at our local health centre and we were given a huge bottle of E45 to liberally apply. We discussed possible triggers to the eczema such as allergies to our cats, the washing powder we used or…
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My little one has reached the stage where he loves to play. He spends the whole day laughing and giggling but his face really lights up when you get down to his level and play. We’ve tried not to go too mad buying toys but I didn’t anticipate his favourite pasttime would be lying on his baby gym sucking plastic rings! This post was written for Week 21 of Tara’s Gallery The theme this week was Playtime For more ideas for playtime check out The Play Academy.
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I spent this evening making some vegetable purees for my little boy. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working our way through some tasty foods from Hipp Organic and Plum which have gone down very well. However I really want to make my own purees so I read Annabel Karmel’s Top 100 Baby Purees for some inspiration. Today I stopped off at the local supermarket and bought a butternut squash and a bag of carrots. I washed, peeled and cooked the vegetables separately and then pureed butternut squash, carrots and some leftover mashed potato in our blender with a…
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While I was pregnant I joined lots of clubs to help me decide what products I should use. One of my favourite is Hipp Organic and we have been sent some great samples of baby foods. I try really hard not to succumb to marketing gimmicks but I genuinely like Hipp Organic as it is an established brand, the food is pure and simple with no added nasties and the recipes are nice and simple. So it didn’t take me long to purchase a weaning kit when I was thinking about weaning a few weeks ago. Look at all the…
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In July 2008 we were lucky enough to spend a day exploring the acoustic mirrors at Denge followed by Derek Jarman’s garden in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station. The garden was built around his cottage on the shingle beach. Flowers were planted around items which had been collected locally, including shells, driftwood, and fishing tackle. Flower beds was interspersed with stone and wooden circles and interesting metal sculptures. I love this place although I wouldn’t want to live there! This post is for Week 21 of The Gallery: Nature