December 2010
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0 - 12 months top ten baby essentials - Cal's...
A year on and I can barely remember the first weeks when Cal was a new born. Edie’s mum however has shamed me into getting my act together with her top things that helped her with her with a new baby by the six month mark. A year later and here, finally,just in time for the new year, are the things that made life easier as we struggled through the early months with a new baby at the start of...
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While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads
While our little family coughed and snuffled through most of Christmas it was still, as always, the most wonderful time of the year and we have plenty of perfect Christmas moments to remember.
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Snowman Inspection II
Currently in the midst of a second heavy covering of snow over Dublin, baby and I took the opportunity to carry out a second round of snowman inspecting. After a serious wrestle trying to get baby into the carrier, with both of us layered in coats and jumpers, we eventually made it out. Deeper than last time, the novelty of the snow appears to be already wearing off as the majority of people we...
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Snow Booties
Last year with a new baby in the middle of winter a hand me down pair of Patagonia booties saved our little ones feet from freezing. Baby socks do not stay on, most baby shoes do not stay on. Our Patagonia booties stayed on and I will forever love them for that.
This year, with a cruiser days away from walking his little soft leather shoes are not at all suitable for the surprising amount of...
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Cal's 1st Birthday
This weekend we celebrated Cal’s first birthday. After much preparation; secret shopping, baking, favour making, we had a quiet morning together, just the three of us, celebrating our new little family and an afternoon of rowdy celebration with wider family and his little buddies. There were some tears, some wrestling for toys but mostly it was a wonderful day. Thank you to all who helped us...
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We still love Bread & Jam
I love bread and jam or jam and bread, but I also love I Love Bread and Jam. Featured here before we love them enough to mention them again. I Love Bread and Jam make, as they say themselves, super tiny little dresses which are customisable by the customer so you can really get something original. Edie isn’t quite old enough for them yet, they start at two years, but as soon as she is...
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What Katie Ate - Bumper Christmas '10 Edition
Hooray! It’s finally here, and we’re in it! The best thing to happen to food and Christmas, What Katie Ate’s Bumper Christmas ‘10 Edition is out now featuring cookies, sweets, New York, London, Dublin Christmases, this will keep you full of cheer and your mouth watering for the holidays.
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O Tannenbaum
Last Christmas baby was only a week old and the Christmas tree was just a green shape with some twinkly white lights. This year however the tree is an indoor playground with plenty of safe wooden and plastic ornaments at the bottom for baby and the cats. But I do enjoy lifting him up to show him the special ornaments, safe at the top of the tree and hope they fill him with wonderful dreams of...
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Baby Elephant
Very happy to see Baby Elephant included in the eumom shop. They are an Irish based site with stylish, quality products, such as Green Baby, Mama Mio and organics for kids, and are perfect for new mummy and baby gifts. Their customer service is also excellent which makes for a great shopping experience. Very handy for a last minute delivery for someone’s new delivery.
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Paper Snowflakes
Having a new little person in the house means you try all sorts of things that you might not normally, hence my poor efforts at making paper snowflakes. For those of you who don’t remember your kindergarten training and want to make snowflakes that look good, try these step by step ones from How About Orange.
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Trunki - Gruffalo Style
I have liked the Trunki product since their early days back on Dragon’s Den and have seen it in use many times with my nephews using theirs to transport toys for a one night stay to an international holiday with plenty of wheeling around in airports. My personal favourite and Santa wish list for Cal has got to be the Gruffalo Trunki, based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s...
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BEABA Love
One of my major can’t do withouts at the moment (and more of them later) is my BEABA babycook. This genius product has been a godsend as we’ve been weaning Edie onto solid food over the past couple of months. It steams, blends, defrosts and reheats meaning you only need one gadget for all baby’s meals. No need for separate steamers and blenders here. Excellent not only for less...
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0 to 6 Months Baby Essentials - Edie's choice
There are so many things we have found helpful over the first half year we have spent with Edie, from the strange hypnotic and calming effect a rugby match on tv has on her, to the endless entertainment that can be provided by producing a tiny tangerine, the best ball ever apparently. I could wax lyrical about the virtues of bibs with poppers over bibs with velcro (don’t wake baby when being...
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The Heart & the Bottle - Oliver Jeffers iPad App
I don’t think I have run faster to download anything before, but Oliver Jeffers’ The Heart and the Bottle for iPad was well worth the near fall down the stairs.
Illustration by Oliver Jeffers is beautiful as always and read by the wonderful Helena Bonham Carter, who needs more in a story telling experience. But much credit to Bold Creative for the interactive elements which are so...
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A very monster Christmas
Time is getting tight for international online ordering for Christmas but if you have the time get your order in for these brilliant Make Your Own Monster Kits by Donna Wilson at Third Drawer Down.
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Water Bobble Baby
I had seen the adult version of the Water Bobble some time ago and liked it. Now I have found the baby Bobble and love them. Certified BPA free, made from recycled products and is recyclable, and a carbon filter that can be replaced every two months. It is bottled water from the tap with bright shiny packaging to fulfill our consumerist needs with a friendlier alternative to store bought bottled...
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National Crafts & Design Fair - Chic Hens
We managed to slide the car out of our driveway at the weekend to make it to the National Crafts and Design Fair. Not as big a turnout as they would normally have but plenty busy for me and a baby trying to crawl wherever he can. There was so much to see and many wonderful unique pieces however my favourite was definitely the very lovely Chic-Hens.
Chic-Hens is a Donegal based business making hen...
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Belle and Boo
Belle and her bunny companion, Boo are two characters from the picture books of illustrator Mandy Sutcliffe. From their world comes a collection of beautiful prints, homewares, clothing and bits and bobs which have, in her own words “a contemporary twist on vintage charm”. Something about the style reminds me of books I read as a child. From a place where there was more time for...
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Plan Toys - Green Toy Company
For those of you trying to meet the requirements of an environmentally friendly, stylish, reasonably priced toy that it is also fun, amazingly it is actually possible. Plan Toys create toys aimed to inspire children’s imagination, they are environmentally responsible and for toys that also look good not too badly priced. Their range of baby, pre-school and activity toys are available here...
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Snowman Inspection
Cabin fever has started to set in so this afternoon baby and I decided to venture out the door to have a walk around the local area and inspect some of the snowmen. As no pram was making it through the snow and we have no sleigh at the moment (please Santa…maybe a nice wooden sleigh..?), baby spent the walk in my arms shouting random abuse at snowflakes and children playing. More snow to...