The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
Three year old Fluffy randomly potty trained herself just a few months ago – you may have read my post about toddler led potty training. Tiny, however, just doesn’t get it, bless her. So when we were sent some Thomas & Friends potty training books, we thought, wonder if this will help?! It’s funny to think how […]
Where I live, the health visitors are a combination of ill-informed, useless and non-existant. That’s not to say they all are, but I’m pretty convinced that the ones that work around here were put here purely to scaremonger vulnerable mums with their nonsense gossip and then disappear off the face of the earth when […]
Many children have an attachment toy or blanket. This attachment gives them comfort when they sleep, when they go on holiday or if you fall into the trap of allowing it… They take it everywhere they go. You then make countless trips down the motorway when you find it’s been left at Grannies house, because […]
Bunny recently moved schools and the difference in her is remarkable. She’s not as tired, because she’s not spending a large chunk of her day stuck in traffic. She’s also getting to school on time, because of this (most of the time). The money we would have spent on petrol for the school run, […]
A while back I wrote a post titled “Tablet computers: How young is too young?” after deciding, reluctantly, to buy my oldest daughter (then 6) a tablet computer. The thing I like about writing these posts, is I often begin the post, with a certain view, but the debate it encourages amongst parents, often brings […]
Yes… I realise I am probably a little late to the party on this one, seeing as my twins are nearly three years old and have been “toddling” for over a year now! The thing is, the twins have suffered a developmental delay from birth, due to my HELLP Syndrome in pregnancy, which caused […]
Recently we won our appeal to move Bunny from a school 6 miles away (half an hour in traffic), to a school 6 minutes walk away. We were thrilled, but only had a day and a half to get used to the idea, before the move happened. I rushed out and bought Bunny’s new uniform, threw […]
I seem to be seeing a lot of questions on twin parent forums lately, about “when is the right time to move toddler twins to a big bed?” and “what type of bed” to move them to. Well of course the answer is different for every family, the same as it is for when you should […]
Two years ago, to the month, Bunny started doing acrobatic gymnastics as a hobby. One hour every Saturday. She loved it from the very first day. Two years on, she is about to take part in her third Christmas show with the club. She now does gym for 2.5 hours per week and has […]
I was lucky to never experience the “terrible two’s” with Bunny. She was an angelic two-year-old. I’m paying for that now she’s seven though and seems to think she is seventeen! The twins however, are another story. They are now two years and four months old (almost) and serious troublemakers. “Double the trouble and double […]