The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind!
On Friday, Supergran and I took Moobles and VB to the farm. It was fabulous! They kids loved looking at the animals, and Supergran and I cooed over some teeny baby guinea pigs, but the big hit of the day was the adventure playground. Moobles choked down a couple of peanut butter sandwiches and then shunned the rest of the lovingly prepared picnic in favour of dangling precariously off climbing frames and walking the wrong way up slides. Velcro Boy cheerfully ate most of the picnic as well as a decent amount of sand and grass and then attacked SG while she was "resting her eyes" for five minutes.
The best, best bit of the day was a call from my lovely brother to let us now that him and his wife had just had a scan which confirmed they are expecting a healthy, wriggly baby on New Year's Eve! Hurrah!
Saturday was spent with some very lovely friends in Brockwell Park. We spent the morning in the paddling pool then retired for ice-cream and a run around. Gadget Man met us all after work and had a drum lesson to teach, so off we went. He went to teach his lesson and I took the kids to another park. They were grubby and exhausted by the end of the day, but had sooooo much fun!
Sunday 27 June 2010
Wednesday 23 June 2010
A lovely day!
It was uncharacteristically hot here in South London today, so Velcro Boy and his big sister Moobles, spent most of the day in various states of undress, prancing about in the sandpit and paddling pool.
At one point Moobles came downstairs pretending to be me, wrapped in one of my dresses and wearing a pair of my high heels. Unfortunately a little while later she came to find me in the kitchen and informed me that "Velcro boy is playing in the paddling pool with your shoes". Oh dear. He was indeed sitting, fully clothed in the middle of the paddling pool, splashing about with my shoes and looking rather pleased with himself!
We ventured out to the Post Office today because we had a parcel to collect and I was hoping it was something exciting. Moobles rode on her new bike (well, she sat on it, I pushed it along and steered with the parent handle) and VB rode in our Solarweave Connecta which was the only thing light enough to sling with today. It's my newest sling, and I love it, it's very thin but supportive and UV protective too. Unfortunately, the parcel turned out to be something for my husband AKA Gadget Man, so nothing exciting at all, just more gubbins for his Iphone. We enjoyed the walk though and cheered ourselves up with houmous and strawberries when we got home (although not at the same time!).
At one point Moobles came downstairs pretending to be me, wrapped in one of my dresses and wearing a pair of my high heels. Unfortunately a little while later she came to find me in the kitchen and informed me that "Velcro boy is playing in the paddling pool with your shoes". Oh dear. He was indeed sitting, fully clothed in the middle of the paddling pool, splashing about with my shoes and looking rather pleased with himself!
We ventured out to the Post Office today because we had a parcel to collect and I was hoping it was something exciting. Moobles rode on her new bike (well, she sat on it, I pushed it along and steered with the parent handle) and VB rode in our Solarweave Connecta which was the only thing light enough to sling with today. It's my newest sling, and I love it, it's very thin but supportive and UV protective too. Unfortunately, the parcel turned out to be something for my husband AKA Gadget Man, so nothing exciting at all, just more gubbins for his Iphone. We enjoyed the walk though and cheered ourselves up with houmous and strawberries when we got home (although not at the same time!).
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Velcro?
Well yes, I've come to the conclusion that Mr Velcro could learn a thing or two from me. I seem to have at least one child attached to me at any given moment during the day (and night, if I'm really lucky!) I've made a conscious decision to allow my children as much access to me as they feel they need, and I'm completely happy with this choice, even when they're hanging off my ankles while I'm in the loo!
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to blog about although I'm fairly sure I'll mention the kids a lot, so I suppose I'll start by introducing them and me.
I live in Sarf London with my lovely husband and two funny children, I have vague dreams of having chickens and rabbits roaming around the place, but as we live in a teeny Victorian terrace, we've settled for the odd visiting neighbourhood cat, fox and giant rats!
Our daughter is 3 going on 13, her current interests include glitter, pink, princesses and cats. I had noble intentions when she was born of never buying her anything pink and instilling feminist ideals in her from the off. However, I neglected to account for the switch that seems to be implanted in every toddler girl and gets flicked around their 3rd birthday, she went from playing with shape sorters and puzzles to pink and fluffy overnight. We've decided to embrace the pinkness, she likes it, it keeps her happy and we get a quiet life. Besides, she still loves climbing, jumping in puddles and rolling around in the mud, so I'm hopeful it won't be princesses and ponies forever more!
Our little boy is 1, he mainly spends his day eating inappropriate objects, drinking "Mik" and sitting in a sling. He's a very different soul to his independent sister, he loves cuddles and is very sociable and smiley but prefers to stay close to us rather than attempting to climb trees with his sister. Slings have proved very useful in parenting him and he's at his happiest when wrapped in some fabric and tied to an adult. This has led to me becoming a sling agent for Petit Poppet (www.petitpoppet.co.uk), I'm such a sling enthusiast it seemed like a natural step to be able to introduce others to the wonderful world of babywearing!
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to blog about although I'm fairly sure I'll mention the kids a lot, so I suppose I'll start by introducing them and me.
I live in Sarf London with my lovely husband and two funny children, I have vague dreams of having chickens and rabbits roaming around the place, but as we live in a teeny Victorian terrace, we've settled for the odd visiting neighbourhood cat, fox and giant rats!
Our daughter is 3 going on 13, her current interests include glitter, pink, princesses and cats. I had noble intentions when she was born of never buying her anything pink and instilling feminist ideals in her from the off. However, I neglected to account for the switch that seems to be implanted in every toddler girl and gets flicked around their 3rd birthday, she went from playing with shape sorters and puzzles to pink and fluffy overnight. We've decided to embrace the pinkness, she likes it, it keeps her happy and we get a quiet life. Besides, she still loves climbing, jumping in puddles and rolling around in the mud, so I'm hopeful it won't be princesses and ponies forever more!
Our little boy is 1, he mainly spends his day eating inappropriate objects, drinking "Mik" and sitting in a sling. He's a very different soul to his independent sister, he loves cuddles and is very sociable and smiley but prefers to stay close to us rather than attempting to climb trees with his sister. Slings have proved very useful in parenting him and he's at his happiest when wrapped in some fabric and tied to an adult. This has led to me becoming a sling agent for Petit Poppet (www.petitpoppet.co.uk), I'm such a sling enthusiast it seemed like a natural step to be able to introduce others to the wonderful world of babywearing!
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