My son got stuck in a frying pan today. Twice. The the first time he got it out and managed to step into it. Then he got stuck and couldn’t get out of the pan. So I lifted him up the entire inch needed and back onto the floor. When he got his bum stuck… [Read More]
A Letter To My Son On Father’s Day
Dear Phineas, Today is your first father’s day. But you don’t have a daddy, so we’re celebrating podge mummy day. Right now you don’t know any different. The men in your life are mostly the ones with furry faces, uncles, granddads and cousins. (And cats). You don’t know that some families have one of these… [Read More]
Adventures In Mush: Baby Enforced Weaning.
Snappy has weaned himself off breast milk. We helped, but to be honest he did most of the work himself. He’s been eating pretty well since we started him on mush just before he hit six months. He went from one meal to two meals a day pretty quickly. My wife gives him fruit and… [Read More]
Five Differences Between Cats and Babies
As you may recall, I had some problems with having too many cats when Snappy came along. I still have too many cats and the similarities between babies and cats continue – I have discovered recently that both babies and cats will eat anything off the floor. Crumbs, cat biscuits, fluff… There are of course… [Read More]
Anxious Mum and Clingy Son
Snappy is a good couple of months into the clingy phase. I’m not sure how much more I can take of it. Because I’m the wrong mummy. Changes There are few different reasons why Snappy is feeling so clingy. It’s normal at this age for babies to be clingy apparently, which is fine, sometimes this… [Read More]
Nine Months Old
Snappy is nine months old on Sunday. We’ve officially had him for as long as bethend had to carry him. She is definitely still feeling the effects of that but it doesn’t seem to have put her off having another one. Or me. As long as we have it at a hospital next time. Today… [Read More]
Moving Into Our Own Room
We’ve finally moved Snappy into his own room. It’s been a bit of a struggle but then I doubt there are very many parents who find it easy to move their kids out of the basket and into the cot. He’s literally on the other side of the wall and we’re not even using the… [Read More]
Six Frequently Asked Questions of LGBTQ Parents (And The Answers)
While there are more and more LGBTQ families than ever, thanks to changing societal norms, advances in IVF and IUI treatment and the fact that there are just more people in the world than ever, there are still questions that people have. That people ask or want to ask. People are curious about things that… [Read More]
Quickly Crawling Along
Snappy has gone from only being interested in walking to crawling around the house and garden at a disturbing speed. I was pretty sure he was just going to skip the entire crawling bit and go straight into walking; I bought him a walker and everything, but he’s figured out crawling and going for it… [Read More]
Eight Awesome Toddler Backpacks
So I need a new backpack. Badly. On Monday I wanted a new backpack, now it’s Tuesday and another zip broke and now I need one. I was looking online for backpacks and found some great looking ones – some really cool ones that I really want. I am aware though how bad the weather… [Read More]
