Wonder Mum

What can I say? She takes after her Mum! I think you'll particularly like the fairy wand 'pointer' :) WM x

This was just a little tale I thought I'd share. Baby A takes things very literally, as all children her age do. So when her Daddy asked her to 'say when' when he was pouring a drink for her the other day, she understandably seemed a little confused. 'Say When', he said again, still pouring into her little cup. She still looked confused but clearly wanted to say the 'right' thing. Daddy still hadn't twigged that she didn't have a clue what that meant so insisted one final time, 'Come on, say when'. She gave the best reply a 2 year old could give. 'Tuesday?' she said? With a look that said 'hopefully this is what you meant?' I think she thought if she didn't get it right, Daddy was just going to pour water until it spilled. So she said the best thing she could think of to answer his rather odd test. To all intents and purposes, it worked. Both Mr Big & I collapsed with laughter so he did stop pouring. ...

We woke up to find the weather people were right and snow had fallen! It's so much more exciting when you have kiddies! Outside we went, while it continued snowing, and built a total of 4 snow people! We even had to pop to the shop to get more carrots for noses! Baby A loved all the excitement. It was fun. We even had a snow ball fight across the street with 2 neighbouring families. I'm not sure who was having more fun - the adults or the children! Here are some pics of the day :) WM x

I popped home between appointments today to find baby A and her nanny making 'gingerbread girls'. The shop had only 'girl' cutters left apparently. They get my vote every time :) WM x

This is very quick, but a follow up to 'dressing like a peg bag'. It seems Baby A & Mr Big if left unattended with some pegs will make their own amusement! WM x

It's been well over a year since I painstakingly removed all 4 layers of wood chip wallpaper from our hallway, landing and ceiling. And finally, we got plastered! Woohoo! Progress! And my ever-so-clever Mr Big also put up a new bannister to match our now not-so-new staircase. It all matches. Perfect! There was the odd plastering casualty but nothing soapy water and elbow grease couldn't fix as you will see from the pics. You never know, we might even attempt the infamous kitchen soon, the rate we're going!! WM xx PS - excuse the 'porn star' moustache Mr Big is sporting - it's for Movember and not a permanent feature! x

We had a fantastic weekend away at the end of September at our friends wedding in Cornwall. Bit of a trek but well worth it and we managed to go down a day early to make a proper break of it. I was a bridesmaid so had lots of wedding duties to tend to the evening before and on the day, of course, but we got some quality family time in beforehand and it was wonderful. Baby A squealed with delight when we let her 'off leash' without having to wear her butterfly bag with reigns attached. I felt a pang of guilt - she was so delighted to be free I realised we don't make the time enough to go where she can just run free. Then I got over myself and remembered we've got our beach hut and she runs free on the beach all the time! It was fun though. We went to Tintagel Castle and Baby A adored running all the way down the hill to the actual castle, along by a bubbling stream which she thought was the best thing ever! She was so exhausted by the time we got to the botto...