Squidge has an obsession with ‘brum cars’. Anything with wheels is a car to him: scooter, train, the vacuum cleaner… though that’s minor detail when you’re just turned two. The latest addition to our car collection is the BRIO Push…
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Once he got to around six months, I noticed a bit of a leap in E’s development. Part of that was a noticeable change in his awareness of his surroundings, and him becoming increasingly inquisitive. His favourite things in the world…
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A baby’s first Christmas is an exciting one. They have no idea that it’s Christmas, they don’t know what presents are all about and they might wake up in the small hours but it will probably be for milk rather…
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There seem to be hundreds of people living in our house this Christmas. There are of course only five, but the house feels very full and I feel as though I’m buying gifts from a whole host of different categories…
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Your life isn’t fully complete until you have a pet chimp, right? Well luckily for you, Spinmaster have provided the solution to your chimp-sized hole in your life. We have tried out an assortment of robotic toys over the years…
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The Challenge A couple of weeks ago, Wicked Uncle asked us if we knew of an adult without any young children of their own who would like to undertake a special kind of challenge. Auntie Hayley – my sister –…
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As exciting as that would sound to my football-mad children, the unfortunate reality is that they are unlikely to ever have the opportunity to train with actual Harry Kane. Especially since he’s busy playing in the Euros at the moment. What…
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Our favourite place to learn with the children is outdoors, but sometimes we just can’t venture out. I don’t like cold or wet weather very much. The boys tend to play inside on days like that because I’m a bit soft! That doesn’t mean we…
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One day after school last week, the boys came home to find a box from Kinetic Sand Build on the kitchen table. To their great delight, we had been sent Kinetic Sand Build Crash ’em Cars and they couldn’t wait to…
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One of the latest playground trends is Num Noms; collectible scented characters with scented shell lids! Take a Num, the outer, soft, squishy, hollow characters, and nestle it on top of a Nom, the inner, hard-shelled characters that are either motorised…
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