Parenting a deaf baby
Our little girl has now completed her hearing tests and is severely deaf in both ears. Believe it or not, this is good news, severely deaf means she can have hearing aids! By next week or the week after, W… Read more ›
The best laid plans
Radio silence broken once more. We are now a family of four! Miss Wriggles arrived at the start of August, 38 weeks gestation, not so wriggly. I went into labour naturally and was progressing nicely, visualising the sea lapping in… Read more ›
Pregnant and breastfeeding a toddler is no picnic
Before I gave birth to Chops, if you’d have asked me how long I intended breastfeeding my reply would have been, “first birthday or teeth”. Ha! Teeth came, barring a few minor nips and one sleepy falling off the breast… Read more ›
Invitation to play, play table ideas : Coloured blocks 1
Back online after house move
It’s been a funny couple of months, while I’ve been without a mobile with decent internet we’ve moved house and I’m now 31 weeks pregnant. Chops continues to grow in body and mind and as he approaches two years old… Read more ›
Make Your Own Montessori Materials
While Montessori materials, objects and equipment are undeniably beautiful, they’re also very expensive and out of reach for so many people. Yes, you get what you pay for, but I’m sure you can also use top quality materials and make… Read more ›
Make Your Own Montessori Materials Part 1 : Sensory bags
This will be an ongoing activity I feel, we’ll build our collection as fabric and textures present themselves. These are so easy to make that I had my 20 month old son help me. He picked out the fabric and… Read more ›
Montessori-inspired Sorting Game for Toddlers
After the failure of our coloured pasta for using tongs for the first time, they were just too tricky to pick up, I got to thinking what would be a better first item and out came the pom poms! An… Read more ›
Coloured pasta
We tried rainbow rice, Chops just wanted to eat it or dump it all on the floor, now I thought we’d try some rainbow pasta! Making it is SO easy, just put some dried pasta (different shapes if you have… Read more ›
Fleece pond
Who would have thought that a piece of scrap blue fleece in my remnants bag would provide such entertainment!