Riley

230/365 The Preschooler

I have accepted the fact that I have a preschooler, not a toddler. Sort of. Maybe. A fact that has become extremely more obvious as she stands in front of the mirror brushing her own hair because she doesn’t like it spiky or as she conducts highly complex conversation with various dolls or toys. But [...]

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Blogging, Choices and Little People

There are a few perceived risks when you make the decision to blog about your children. One is that someone will see the pictures of your child, track you down and abduct them, or something similar. The other (far less paranoid and more realistic) risk is that your blogging will offend them, embarrass them, humiliate [...]

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Elmo, Monkeys and iPads

Sometimes the funniest thing in the world is an Aunty pretending that Elmo is a monkey and swinging him around on the jungle gym. The Aunt in question also brought over an iPad. Riley’s uptake of technology is truly terrifying. I can only imagine the amount of new things I will have to learn just [...]

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I Have a Spatula . . .

She was moonlighting in a friend’s toy kitchen today. It was a birthday party. There was cake, and more cake, and sprinkles. And there was feeding the ducks. And there was ball pits and trike dare-devilry. It all ended in an exhaustion tantrum. Which didn’t put a damper on any of it.

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Ice Cream Good

She woke up just in time to steal her mama’s ice cream, right after she devoured her father’s. Girl after my own heart. filed in

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Smiles

The theme this week at i heart faces is Smiles. filed in

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Toddler Hands

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For the Love of Driving

Already developing some mad driving skills. Getting my license very late myself, I’m starting to realise that I missed out on all of those road trips we could have done before we had kids. Because I’m all into road trips – just picking up and going somewhere I have no illusions that doing a road [...]

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Mooshy

Who wouldn’t want to kiss those mooshy cheeks? It’s no secret (if you twitter) that I’ve been feeling a little low. A few things happened today to cheer me up. When I got in the shower this morning there was a lovely message from Mr Goog using the foam letters that we have in there [...]

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