In August, we went out and bought Rosemary’s school uniform. There was a list of items, which included things like: school sweatshirt (worn once so far, incidentally, and bought two of them) summer dress grey, navy or black dress, skirt or trousers, black shoes white or blue polo shirts black …
This is what Eleanor tends to do when she wakes up in the middle of the night (wakes up properly I mean – not when she wakes up, has some milk then goes straight back to sleep): Now (showing off cute pictures of my almost-one-year-old daughter aside), I am obviously …
As you probably know, Rosemary started school a few weeks ago. She seems to really enjoy it and even tells us some of the things she’s done on a given day, only rarely uttering the till now ubiquitous ‘Nothing!’ Though they are starting slowly and still mostly concentrating on letting …
The picture’s just a pretty picture and absolutely nothing to do with the post. If Rosemary wasn’t in bed already, I’d go take a photo of her wardrobe, or get her to dress up in her skeleton costume to illustrate it properly. But, instead I want to show off this …
Rosemary’s always been quite interested in the body – especially bones and skeletons. Last Wednesday, at school, they went to visit the Life Education Bus, where they got to find out about the human body. Apparently, she was answering lots of the questions and very interested. That evening, she interrupted …
Rosemary’s only at school for the mornings for a few weeks, so we’re trying to make sure her afternoons aren’t only filled with DVDs and acrobatics. Eleanor’s still going to my mum’s for the whole school day, so there’s an opportunity for one of us to spend some one-on-one time …
I am constantly amazed at how grown-up Rosemary is becoming – though, as she says ‘Well, I am four now!’ She’ll notice something I’ve left in Eleanor’s reach, or tell me all about the story Chris read her the night before, or recognise and write a bunch of letters, or …
Usually, the living room has a small corner with toys in it. Well, actually, there are usually some on Rosemary’s small table, some on the mantelpiece, some on the sofas… But, this was after an hour or so of Rosemary’s favourite activity at the moment – acrobatics. Mostly this involves …
As many of you will know, we have been using baby-led weaning with Eleanor, and we used it with Rosemary, too, a few years ago. Back then, it was really quite a new idea (though, in actuality, quite an old one, of course) and many, many people thought we were …
It’s Rosemary’s fourth birthday on Thursday. That is, of course, a post in itself and maybe I’ll write it on Thursday, at some point. But this post is all about party bags. Rosemary is having a ‘Go Bananas Birthday’, which is what she has been asking for since the day …
