Category Stuff to Keep Toddlers Busy
The Book of Life with a Pre-schooler
Given that half-term means all our normal scheduled child-busying activities weren’t on, Weasel and I decided to go to the cinema to check out The Book of Life. I’d love to say this was some kind of informed decision, like I thought “I hear there’s a new film produced by Guillermo del Toro, that should […]
The House of Magic – Cats, magic, should be the perfect Weasel film
After weeks of sweltering weather and playing in gardens, parks and country houses, we thought we might have a break and go to the cinema. There are actually quite a few kids’ films on at the moment, being summer holidays and all, but Weasel went for The House of Magic due to her obsession with […]
Spaghetti Fun – More Things to Blame on Pinterest
Looking for something to keep Weasel and the Ninja busy for half an hour, and stop them from begging to watch telly (I’m starting to feel it was a bit of a mistake introducing them to Dora the Explorer this week, but more on that later), I thought I’d break out my kids stuff board on […]
The Lego Movie with a Toddler
With Weasel’s uncle visiting, Husband had an excuse to take a Friday off and all head off to the cinema to see the Lego Movie. I’m pretty sure the three of us were looking forward to it more than Weasel was; she would have probably have preferred to go see the Tinker Bell film again […]
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy and Lots of Popcorn
With our newly found freedom to go to the cinema again, Weasel and I headed off post-gymnastics on Friday to see the new Tinker Bell film, Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy on opening day. My choice would have been the new Lego film, but Husband would be none too pleased if we saw that […]
Attempt 732 to Get Weasel to Recognise the Alphabet
Let’s start off with the admission that I have zero patience; not that this is any kind of revelation to those who know me personally. These kids are born, why can’t they bloody well read straight away?! What do you mean they can’t understand basic mathematics? How can they not see the difference between green […]
Garden Centres – Cakes, ‘Puppies’ and Potted-Plants
Slightly rainy Saturday? Too chicken to brave a softplay on a drizzled weekend? Out of fish food/greeting cards/Shih Tzu calendars/random sweets in jars/shit you never knew you wanted? Excellent, garden centre it is then. We did genuinely need fish food and a 2014 calendar (on sale for 50p, whoop whoop!), so the garden centre with […]
Pizza Making the Cheating Way
I’m pretty sure we did pizza making before with Weasel, but it was the make your own, get sophisticated ingredients and watch a toddler cry and choose bed over eating dinner sort of pizza making experience. This time was a lot less planned and a lot more child friendly as it involved a lot less […]
Happy (Very Late) Halloween!
As we’ve finally got around to carving a pumpkin, I thought I should say a big happy Halloween from Weasel and Gravel! The Ninja mostly tried to eat the seeds and Weasel refused to stick her hand anywhere near that pumpkin whilst at the same time got upset whenever anyone used ‘her’ pumpkin scraper for […]
Creating a Lollypop Spider Army for a Halloween Party (or in this case, Weasel’s Birthday)
It’s good having 2 kids born within 2 weeks of Halloween. Ok, so you don’t get comparatively bargainous garden barbecue birthdays, but you do always have a handy theme if needed and the shops are full of costumes for fancy dress. This year Weasel wanted a Meg & Mog themed birthday, and for those of […]
adventures with gravel 