Thinking ahead to the holidays for family. Let us know things that you guys might want or need.
Declan:
Bowls to eat from. We have a bunch of spoons and one bowl, which is actually mine from childhood.
Sippy Cups, or Avent things to convert bottles to sippy cups.
Clothes (he’s in year old clothes now at 6 mos, [...]

Things are moving forward fairly well. Declan is getting very mobile, he’s just still a bit uncoordinated, but I have to be very careful.
He had his first taste of chocolate today which was my own stupid. I was trying to use up the last of the Nutella with my toast this morning, and I stupidly [...]

The parenting website I frequent PunkyMoms is doing a SuperMega Secret swap over the next three months, of which I’m a participant. Over the next few days I’ll be compiling suggestions, as suggested, of ideas for things that would be good ideas for gifts. Although maybe they’ll be helpful for family and relatives too, when [...]

You may see the new and strange counter which has shown up with the reverse in layout now that Hallowe’en has been and gone. November is National Novel Writer’s Month. Participants ‘compete’ to see who can manage to write 50′000 new words on one piece of work before November ends. Given I’m a budding writer [...]