Category Archives: My Boys

Date day with my no.1

Date day is something I have been meaning to introduce for a while as a way of spending some quality time with my eldest son. I’ve posted before about the jealousy issues we have experienced since his little bro was born and now I’m not feeding 24/7 it’s great that we can get some 1:1 time together again.

So the plan is that every few weeks my husband stays with the littlest allowing me and F to get out together. We may go to the park or swimming but on this occasion we decided to take a trip into town on the bus.

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How to make a Postman Pat’s van birthday cake

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I searched high and low for instructions to make a Postman Pat’s van cake for my son’s 3rd birthday and surprisingly really, really struggled. Ok maybe it doesn’t take a genius to work it out but for a (very) amateur baker like me i need instructions in very basic form.

I wasn’t planning to do a blog post on this BUT the results (sans instructions) was a bit better than i though. To be fair i was very bloody pleased with it, looks pretty good in a rough round the edges homemade type way huh? His nibs was happy anyway.

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Little F turns the big 3!

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One day after your little brother turns 6 months it’s your big day – the big 3! I’d say the years have flown by and i guess they have but i can hardly even remember a time when you weren’t in our lives – what the hell did we do with ourselves?!

0,1,2 and 3!

This birthday feels like a bid deal. Firstly it’s the first one you have been properly excited about and anticipating – you put in requests for your presents (Postman Pats van), your birthday cake (Postman pats van!), and told me who you would like to invite to your party. You are VERY exited about your party!

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