When the kids get hold of the camera – eek!

photo of mummy

Can I take your photo mummy?

It’s not a surprise to hear the words ‘Mummy, can I take a photo?’ meaning with my camera or smartphone after all they’ve been photographed more or less every step of their journey so far in the five years they’ve been with us. We spend a lot [...]

HABA 75th anniversary – Felt biscuits – Role play

assorted cookies HABA

HABA are a wood manufacturing company known for high-quality baby and children’s toys, as well as children’s games and furniture. HABA has been around for 75 years, to celebrate in style they chose 75 bloggers to take part part in reviewing a selection of their products. So we have one post per day for the [...]

HABA 75th anniversary – Crab Squirter

crab squirter

HABA are a wood manufacturing company known for high-quality baby and children’s toys, as well as children’s games and furniture. HABA has been around for 75 years, to celebrate in style they chose 75 bloggers to take part part in reviewing a selection of their products. So we have one post per day for the [...]

The Girl with a Brave Heart – children’s book

the girl with a brave heart

I absolutely love it when Barefoot Books send us one of their books to review because I know I’m going to be reading a beautiful story with gorgeous illustrations in it and The Girl with a Brave Heart is no exception.

This story is a tale from Tehran by Rita Jahanforuz who is also [...]

Bling up your scooter, sista!

 

Alice not happy as her scooter hasn’t been blinged yet.

We’ve had our micro scooters for about a year now and the girls are super fast whizzers on them. I take them to pick them up from school as usually they are tired and therefore start moaning

‘I don’t want to walk [...]

LeapPad apps – Mr Pencil and Minnie Mouse Bow-tique

Mr Pencil leap pad game

The latest Leappad apps to be downloaded onto the girls machines are Mr Pencil and Minnie Mouse Bow-tique, both have kept them amused for a long time and both games were easy enough for them to get started straight away without me having to intervene.

Mr Pencil

Teaches -

Letter writing Number writing Art [...]

Our very pink and princess phase

BUild a bear shop

The thing with little people is when they discover something they like, they do nothing but play that game for EVER. We are going through the PINK and PRINCESS phase of life; many colours will not even be considered and can cause great arguments, I have taken to selling green to them as [...]

LeapPad 2 – which apps, eBooks and games?

Taking photos of my favourite teddies

We decided to invest in LeapPads for the girls’ Christmas present this year and they love them.

Here’s what I’ve noticed with my twins.

They eagerly played with them all over Christmas and we changed the four batteries in each console a couple of times. However they [...]

Leap Pad 2 and accessories

Alice with Leap Pad2

This is not a sponsored post, The Mister and I decided – ok I decided, that we’d get Leap Pad 2′s for the girls for their Christmas present this last year, the Mister went along with it grumbling about he never got to take the decisions which is just as well [...]

The Kite Princess

The Kite Princess

New year new book to read and the next book from Barefoot Books that I want to highlight is The Kite Princess written by Juliet Clare Bell, illustrated by Laura-Kate Chapman and narrated by Imelda Staunton.

If, like me you have mini princesses in your home then they will adore this beautifully illustrated book [...]

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