Dancing with Dinosaurs

Upon finishing his dinner, which had been spaghetti with tomato sauce, Nicholas approached me. He was, as is typical after such a meal, rath...

This post is a bit late, but I thought I'd share how we are doing Advent this year. I can't remember where I got the idea for this, ...

What happens when you tell a hat-obsessed two year old that the wooly-circle-on-sticks you are holding is going to be his new hat? This! ...

We had an appointment at the Children's Clinic at our local hospital on Thursday. This was our final developmental check at the hospital...

What do you do when you are fed up of simply using your pens for drawing? This is what Nikki did:

Nikki has his own special Christmas Tree. I've been so eager to get this one out, but I waited until the 1st of December because I didn...

I had to go into town yesterday, and since I don't have a car and my Mum didn't need anything in town (I usually only go when she...

We've not done much Tot School after all. Planned lessons went out the window a little bit to allow for Birthday celebrations and potty ...

Harry the Hoover! Finally, my new hoover has arrived. Nikki was sooo excited! He has been talking about his new friend Harry Hoover for we...

I have a card for my camera! As you can probably tell from my previous post. I still haven't found the one Nikki 'tidied' away f...

Nicholas has been practicing being a ghost. At bedtime, for as long as he can get away with, he will sneak out. The odd thing is that he sil...

In our case - not potty training! Nicholas was left in the dubious care of my father yesterday. I say dubious because he will allow Nikki to...

I don't know of many toddlers who eat their vegetables first and then ask for more with complete disregard to the meat and potatoes. T...

I am now happy to say that Nikki is potty trained . He might not always remember to go and have a little accident (he is only two - playing ...

Nicholas has started singing to himself all the time . His favourite is the ABC song, but he knows (parts of, at least) several others. This...

I could not believe it when I heard my front door close. Nikki was down for his nap and had finally gone quiet, so I assumed that I had lef...

Today, we managed to go to playgroup with no nappy and no accidents! We are still not there entirely - Nikki needs me to tell him to use t...

I know, I know. Nikki is getting so many languages, do I need to add more? Honestly, in a perfect world we would have a different language f...

Nikki is now at the age where he repeats everything . This is incredibly cute when he is watching his Chinese dvd and repeating vocabulary. ...

It was Bonfire Night here in England on the 5th, a celebration of the thwarted attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up parliament in 1605. The bo...