In between house moves and work pressures, I just haven't felt the urge to write a blog recently. I've decided to take a break so I can spend the small amount of spare time I have on creative writing rather than blogging.
I'll be back at some point. I have a dolls' house that I want to renovate for Munchkin and it would be good to record my progress online.
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Sunday, 10 January 2016
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Poogate and Parties
It's been over a month but I'm finally writing another blog. In the world of Angmering Mummy, there are three things going on at the moment, Munchkin has taken to saying, "Are we nearly there yet?" in addition to "Why?", Angmering Nanny is very poorly, and we're trying to plan a third birthday party.
Due to Nanny's illness, we've been staying with Sweetpea's family. This has involved Munchkin and Sweetpea sharing a rather large single bed. In addition to the usual staying awake at all hours and group trips to the toilet, we've had Poo Gate. Child A did a poo in her PJ's in the middle of the night, then threw it on the floor. She said Child B did it. Child B said Child A did it. Neither were budging on these stories, however Child A said, "B did a poo in my pyjamas". To top this off, Child A has a history of pooing her pants, hadn't pooed during the day, and her end of the bed smelt. The jury is still out on who threw the poo on the floor.
Munchkin is going through a really shy phase at the moment. When we go to groups, she refuses to join in, even though she claims to enjoy them and wants to go back. As a result, we decided to arrange a birthday party for her that wouldn't involve group participation. Soft play seemed the obvious choice so I made enquiries about Amazon Adventure at Worthing Leisure Centre. They had availability of the right date, and the party package seemed to be what we were looking for - an hour in soft play plus 45 minutes for food in a separate room. Since we'd never been, Munchkin and I made a trip to check out Amazon Adventure... We will NOT be having a party there. The equipment has seen better days; it's threadbare in places. The slide is a nightmare. If you were there with a group of three year olds, you'd either need to man it to help them get up there, or ban them from using it. We've considered every other soft play in the area and ruled it out for one reason or another:
That brings me up to date with our news. Must try harder to blog regularly.
Due to Nanny's illness, we've been staying with Sweetpea's family. This has involved Munchkin and Sweetpea sharing a rather large single bed. In addition to the usual staying awake at all hours and group trips to the toilet, we've had Poo Gate. Child A did a poo in her PJ's in the middle of the night, then threw it on the floor. She said Child B did it. Child B said Child A did it. Neither were budging on these stories, however Child A said, "B did a poo in my pyjamas". To top this off, Child A has a history of pooing her pants, hadn't pooed during the day, and her end of the bed smelt. The jury is still out on who threw the poo on the floor.
Munchkin is going through a really shy phase at the moment. When we go to groups, she refuses to join in, even though she claims to enjoy them and wants to go back. As a result, we decided to arrange a birthday party for her that wouldn't involve group participation. Soft play seemed the obvious choice so I made enquiries about Amazon Adventure at Worthing Leisure Centre. They had availability of the right date, and the party package seemed to be what we were looking for - an hour in soft play plus 45 minutes for food in a separate room. Since we'd never been, Munchkin and I made a trip to check out Amazon Adventure... We will NOT be having a party there. The equipment has seen better days; it's threadbare in places. The slide is a nightmare. If you were there with a group of three year olds, you'd either need to man it to help them get up there, or ban them from using it. We've considered every other soft play in the area and ruled it out for one reason or another:
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| Not my choice of a party venue. That red star definitely looks ready for retirement. |
- P.LA.Y. - You're just in soft play with members of the public, then you get called to a small party room. Although not as run down as Amazon Adventure, it's seen better days.
- Harbour Park - You're just in soft play with members of the public for 45 minutes, then you go to a party room. Apparently their catering is attrocious. I've never been, but my friend says the coffee is undrinkable.
- Flying Fortress - As above, you're sharing the softplay. It's so big, we'd probably lose a toddler along the way. Might be a viable option next year.
- Wyevale Findon - No party room, you sit in the open plan cafe.
- Old Barn - According to Angmering Daddy, the soft play is smaller than Wyevale's. No party room, though it's less open plan than Wyevale.
That brings me up to date with our news. Must try harder to blog regularly.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Dummies are for dummies
For the third night in a row, Munchkin has gone to bed without a dummy -"a soother" if you're reading this in North America. Angmering Daddy has been trying to persuade her not to use them for a month or two, with limited success. I hadn't imagined we'd be at this point so soon since Sweetpea was nearly three when she gave up dummies. I'm very proud of Munchkin and if this continues, I'll be throwing away all her dummies -she has about ten.
She's been a good girl generally over the past week or so. Her confidence is coming back after half a term of no gymnastics or swimming. Last week we managed the gym warm up with no screaming and a small amount of participitation. Post warm up, she was back to normal and showed off her skills on the big beam - it's lower than a full sized one but there's still room to fall off. Her late granny, who was a gym coach, would have been really impressed. She smiled during most of this week's swimming lesson, though she's still lacking confidence and won't do half the things she was doing last term.
I've posted on here about potty training in the past. These days, Munchkin hates the potty and will only sit on the toilet, using her Peppa Pig toilet seat. Unforunately she only sits on the toilet, she hasn't done anything on it yet. Despite repeatedly showing signs of being ready for potty training, we're no closer than we were eight months ago.
Munchkin's toilet habits have caused me to change nappy brands. Being environmentally conscious, but wanting an easy life, I've usually opted for eco disposables. We started out in Beaming Baby, which was great until Munchkin ended up between sizes; their mini nappies leaked but we couldn't do up their midi nappies tightly enough. I gave up on Beaming Baby and switched to Sainsbury's eco nappies. These served us well for a year but are now leaking like mad. I changed from a size 4+ to a 5, which was slightly better but still not great. I bought some Naty pull-ups, the only other eco brand they sell in Sainsbury's to see what they were like. They seem much more absorbent so I'll give their regular nappies a go. I think, until we're really potty training, Munchkin can have a mixture of nappies and pull-ups depending on where we are and what we're doing. The pull-ups were brilliant yesterday because we went to a family party at a pub with no baby change and they were easy to whip off in the Ladies' without having to lie Munchkin down.
Well, I think that's enough blogging for one week. I'll try to blog more regularly in future but certain aspects of my writing regularity are just shocking. I've got three international penfriends whom I haven't written to for almost a year, and a novel in my head that refuses to be put onto paper.
She's been a good girl generally over the past week or so. Her confidence is coming back after half a term of no gymnastics or swimming. Last week we managed the gym warm up with no screaming and a small amount of participitation. Post warm up, she was back to normal and showed off her skills on the big beam - it's lower than a full sized one but there's still room to fall off. Her late granny, who was a gym coach, would have been really impressed. She smiled during most of this week's swimming lesson, though she's still lacking confidence and won't do half the things she was doing last term.
I've posted on here about potty training in the past. These days, Munchkin hates the potty and will only sit on the toilet, using her Peppa Pig toilet seat. Unforunately she only sits on the toilet, she hasn't done anything on it yet. Despite repeatedly showing signs of being ready for potty training, we're no closer than we were eight months ago.
Munchkin's toilet habits have caused me to change nappy brands. Being environmentally conscious, but wanting an easy life, I've usually opted for eco disposables. We started out in Beaming Baby, which was great until Munchkin ended up between sizes; their mini nappies leaked but we couldn't do up their midi nappies tightly enough. I gave up on Beaming Baby and switched to Sainsbury's eco nappies. These served us well for a year but are now leaking like mad. I changed from a size 4+ to a 5, which was slightly better but still not great. I bought some Naty pull-ups, the only other eco brand they sell in Sainsbury's to see what they were like. They seem much more absorbent so I'll give their regular nappies a go. I think, until we're really potty training, Munchkin can have a mixture of nappies and pull-ups depending on where we are and what we're doing. The pull-ups were brilliant yesterday because we went to a family party at a pub with no baby change and they were easy to whip off in the Ladies' without having to lie Munchkin down.
Well, I think that's enough blogging for one week. I'll try to blog more regularly in future but certain aspects of my writing regularity are just shocking. I've got three international penfriends whom I haven't written to for almost a year, and a novel in my head that refuses to be put onto paper.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
To blog or not to blog...
Ooh, scary, I've left it so long, I'm not sure how to blog any more! Life just got in the way. I left blogging for so long, I wasn't sure if there was any point going back to it. My Christmas went with a bang, quite literally. I fell down the stairs, went to A&E in an ambulance and spent Christmas so drugged up, I slept through half of it.
Munchkin's grown up a lot in the last couple of months. She no longer uses a highchair and we took the sides off her cot this evening... Fingers crossed we don't get a 5am wake up call! We keep being told that she's a brilliant speaker for her age. We put this down to Sing and Sign. Despite my high hopes in the summer, she still isn't potty trained. She seems to have developed an aversion to the potty recently but has agreed that a Peppa Pig toilet training seat would be lovely.
I'm still unsure how my child (who only ever watched CBEEBIES and Disney) developed an obsession with Peppa Pig. She watched it a handful of times at cousins' houses and there was a Peppa Pig themed charity event at nursery in the summer. The next thing I know, she wants to watch Peppa every time the TV's switched on! I can only assume it sends out subliminal messages to all toddlers...
I've been thinking just recently that becoming a parent has given me a whole new social life. Admittedly, it's more difficult to go out as a couple now. But on the plus side, I've made more friends in the past two years than I did for donkey's years pre-baby. Last night I met up with some mummy friends and friends of friends for a meal at The Lamb in Angmering. I highly recommend The Lamb. It was recently converted into a gastro pub and has a busy bar on one side and a decent restaurant the other side. The only thing I wasn't so keen on, was that I'm always on the lookout for child friendly pub/restaurants for weekend lunches. I wasn't impressed with the children's menu since everything appeared to be served with chips. Not one to add to our list of family favourites!
Well I did it, my blog is resurrected! I've got another defunct blog out there somewhere and it will have to stay defunct for now because I can't remember the password!
Munchkin's grown up a lot in the last couple of months. She no longer uses a highchair and we took the sides off her cot this evening... Fingers crossed we don't get a 5am wake up call! We keep being told that she's a brilliant speaker for her age. We put this down to Sing and Sign. Despite my high hopes in the summer, she still isn't potty trained. She seems to have developed an aversion to the potty recently but has agreed that a Peppa Pig toilet training seat would be lovely.
I'm still unsure how my child (who only ever watched CBEEBIES and Disney) developed an obsession with Peppa Pig. She watched it a handful of times at cousins' houses and there was a Peppa Pig themed charity event at nursery in the summer. The next thing I know, she wants to watch Peppa every time the TV's switched on! I can only assume it sends out subliminal messages to all toddlers...
I've been thinking just recently that becoming a parent has given me a whole new social life. Admittedly, it's more difficult to go out as a couple now. But on the plus side, I've made more friends in the past two years than I did for donkey's years pre-baby. Last night I met up with some mummy friends and friends of friends for a meal at The Lamb in Angmering. I highly recommend The Lamb. It was recently converted into a gastro pub and has a busy bar on one side and a decent restaurant the other side. The only thing I wasn't so keen on, was that I'm always on the lookout for child friendly pub/restaurants for weekend lunches. I wasn't impressed with the children's menu since everything appeared to be served with chips. Not one to add to our list of family favourites!
Well I did it, my blog is resurrected! I've got another defunct blog out there somewhere and it will have to stay defunct for now because I can't remember the password!
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Getting Started
I'm nearly 40 (shh... don't tell everyone!) and mummy to a little girl who's currently 17 months old. We live in the village of Angmering in West Sussex. There are four in our family, the other two are Daddy and an ageing siamese cat, who still hasn't recovered from the arrival of a small person!
I used to write pre-baby and want to use this blog to get back in to writing. The main things I'm hoping to blog about are parenting related. This will include details of activities we've done with our little one, who will hereafter be known as "Munchkin", my experiences as a new mum, and anything parenting related that I happen to have an opinion on. My writing style tends to be quite light hearted, so I'll try to keep this as amusing as possible, even if I end up having a rant about something!
I used to write pre-baby and want to use this blog to get back in to writing. The main things I'm hoping to blog about are parenting related. This will include details of activities we've done with our little one, who will hereafter be known as "Munchkin", my experiences as a new mum, and anything parenting related that I happen to have an opinion on. My writing style tends to be quite light hearted, so I'll try to keep this as amusing as possible, even if I end up having a rant about something!
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