The Summer Days Linky ~ What a Week!

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Welcome back to the Summer Days Linky with myself and Karen from Stopping at Two. You can read more about it HERE. You can link your summery posts at the bottom of this post.

The start of this week was beautiful. It was so lovely we even had to wear suncream, which has been a rarity this summer!

You may have already read about LV’s very eventful birthday on Saturday, if not you can read about it HERE. We also managed to get a couple of days work in the allotment, with LV and O being the main ‘helpers’. FYI, if your trying to get rid of stones having a toddler around is NOT going to result in stone free vegetable patches! Although he did give it a good go, as well as helping me break pallets apart.

My Sunday Photo ~ The Stolen Chocolate

I was recently sent this lovely box of Cadbury Milk Tray chocolate for the purposes of adding to my Mother’s Day gift guide. Sadly I only managed to eat about ten chocolates myself as, on Thursday, I caught my toddler and the dog munching away happily at them. Looks like neither of them like hard caramel or turkish delight mind as these were kindly put back in the box half chewed!

I could have lived with the pinched chocolate but Dewi, the dog, was rapidly sick and O can’t eat dairy so they both REALLY paid for their gluttony. Also O needed a much hated bath as he was sticky from top to bottom!

My Captured Moment ~ Big Red Tractor

This is one of Lee’s favourite photographs of LM.

She was two years old and we were on a camping holiday in Devon. One of the highlights of our trip was to a hedgehog hospital. For the life of me I can’t remember the name of the place though! There were farm animals, hedgehogs, a trampoline and little ride on tractors and yet LM wanted to spend all her time on this big red tractor.

The one thing that makes me smile the most is the shoes she’s wearing. They are a pair of Clarks Doodles and she wore them for the entire summer, which we were blessed with sunny weather throughout. Her feet bore the half circle tan mark for years and years. I swear even if you look at her feet now, almost a decade later, you would still see the faint outline!

I’d love to find out the name of this hedgehog hospital. Does the red tractor look familiar to you?

My Sunday Photo – Felt Pens and Plasters

Have a toddler covered in felt pen? Hide the evidence with plasters. Job done!

These plasters cost me £1 for 75 in Poundland and kept O (and the big kids!) occupied while I made dinner one day this week. After he’d coloured over himself with the pens of course!

That was one well spent pound in my eyes.

How to collect a urine sample from a toddler!

It’s 100% guaranteed that if you take your toddler’s nappy off and you dont want them to, they will instantly pee on the floor, your lap, or in your bed.

But that one time you need really them to pee on command? It is like getting blood (or urine!) from a stone. That is until the millisecond your not looking and they pee on the sofa of course!

So having had to go through this ordeal recently I thought I would pass on my tips, with a little humour thrown in for good measure, because, well, if you don’t laugh you’ll cry right? So here are my: READ MORE »

Review ~ Sassy Bloom Box

A little while ago I was asked to review a Sassy Bloom Box. Now I had heard of these fantastic little boxes and had also seen some reviews so I was absolutely over the moon to be given this opportunity.

If you don’t know what a Sassy Bloom box is, in basic terms it is a subscription box service. But in reality it feels a little bit like Christmas once a month! When you sign up on the website, which can be for a one box off or a subscription, you fill in your child’s details such as age, gender and name. When your box arrives all the items inside have been chosen to be perfect for your child’s age and gender.

You can also get these lovely boxes tailored for those ladies in their 3rd trimester. So if you have a friend who is heavily pregnant (or you just want to spoil yourself!) you can also get a box with lots of goodies in. I think this would be an ideal leaving gift for a work colleague or if your child’s teacher were to go off on maternity leave. You would only need roughly £1 from each child’s parents and you have a fantastic leaving gift!

My Childish, Ranty Post

Just to pre-warn you (if the title didn’t) that this post is not me at my most dignified, this is basically my version of a toddler tantrum, stamping feet and all!

*****Message to my daughters: Girls I know you read my blog so please pay attention and take note!!!!!*****

I refer you first to my post a few months ago, about all the things I have found in my bed. Then there was the one about children pinching anything and everything that belongs to you. They were quite jovial posts, a bit of a lark. But sometimes, mostly when I’m tired (I have had about 12 hours sleep total since last week!) I can get really annoyed at the little things but especially the fact that my bed is always full of crap and bits, my quilt is strewn all over the floor half out of the cover and my headphones are nowhere to be seen.

I NEED MY HEADPHONES!

Yes, I know, being in a paddy about headphones is ~~totally~~ a bit childish.

But they are MY HEADPHONES!!!

Win a BMW Ride on Car!

Do you have a little one in your life that adores cars, or anything to do with cars? Or maybe you have always dreamed of cruising the streets in your own shiny new BMW? Imagine being able to own one of these lovely ride on cars:

The BMW Baby Racer

Guest Post ~ Carving Pumpkins with Mummy of boy girl Twins!

With half term and me being extra busy with my special posts this week to celebrate my Blogaversary and my 100th post I just haven’t had time to write a Halloween post as I had planned to.

With that being the case a good friend of mine (although we are yet to actually meet face to face!) Jess who blogs over at Mummy of Boy Girl Twins kindly offered to write this guest post for me. Her twins are a lot younger than mine so have that extra Ahhh! factor too 😀

Carving pumpkins with the twins

Don’t hurt my new friend!