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A Tour of My Kitchen

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15 years ago
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Jen over at The Mad House Blog has posted a video tour of her ever so “untidy” kitchen, and has challenged us to post a video of our kitchens (no tidying up allowed!) so for your entertainment I give you my kitchen…

The Gallery – April

12
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in ,

This post is this weeks entry for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers

The prompt this week is April.

Now April for us has been a busy month and with two long bank holiday weekends and the easter holidays we have had plenty of time to go outside in the glorious weather we’ve been having and have some fun.

This weeks photo is one that I love, for some reason the sunshine almost looks like a shower of rainbows on this photo, no idea why :)

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Something happier to share with you

4
15 years ago
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I’m very aware that Oscar hasn’t really featured much on here yet and that’s because the last 11 weeks have been pretty boring to be honest. With him being born 6 weeks early it’s been a long time waiting for a little bit of personality to show through and I’m only now starting to see something appearing. And just to prove that the male obsession with toilet humour starts at a very early age, I give you Oscar….


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Silent Sunday

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15 years ago
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Silent Sunday

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Two very different babies (Can you tell which is which?)

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15 years ago
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Both of these photos were taken by my sister Sonia who is a professional photographer, you can check out more of her work on her website Sonia Thorpe Photography. I’m very lucky to have a photographer to take beautiful photos of my babies, below are two photos that she took of Oscar and Zara. One when Zara was 10 days old and one when Oscar was 5 weeks old. Can you tell which baby is which? (It’s far too easy isn’t it ? :) )

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Introducing my Cybermummy Sponsor – B Websites

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15 years ago
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I’m really looking forward to attending Cybermummy 11 this year and this is helped greatly by my having found a lovely sponsor – B Websites.

B Websites is a reputable and well established Surrey based company. It began in 2004 and has a large portfolio of over 200 live websites all managed by a highly committed and talented team. As digital online experts they plan, design, build and promote websites, online shops, blogs and web applications that help their clients win new business. They have strong and trusted relationships with their clients, many of whom have been with them for a number of years as they help them further grow and develop their online presence. And 60% of their business comes via referrals and repeat orders.

Just a few of the services B Websites offers are:

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) for Beginners Workshops

WordPress Workshops

SEO Action Sessions

Internet Marketing Planning

Website Planning, Design, Build, Promotion and Support

E Commerce Websites

WordPress Blogs

Check out their website to see what other services they offer that may be of use to you!

You can find Zoe Brown (Managing Director of B Websites and busy mum of 5!!!) over on twitter @BWebsites

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The Gallery – Green

21
15 years ago
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This post is this weeks entry for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers

The prompt this week is Green.

I’ve decided to post this photo this week as it’s one of my favourite ever ones of Zara. She was sat outside in the garden playing round and round the garden on her hands and I just love how she is sat there in a sea of green :)

Round and Round the Garden

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Silent Sunday

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15 years ago
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Silent Sunday

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Win a Pair of NEC Baby Show Tickets with Mamascarf

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15 years ago
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The lovely Keira from Mamascarf has offered me a pair of NEC Baby Show tickets to give away to one of my readers. She will be on stand M10 so make sure you pop by and say hello!

Mamascarf is an award winning breastfeeding scarf that not only allows mothers to breastfeed stylishly and discreetly but also provides essential support without the need for a cushion.

The Mamascarf can be worn as a scarf, or neatly folded away. It even comes complete with a hidden pocket to store your breastpad.

  • It is easy to use and won’t draw attention to you.
  • Less distraction for your baby.
  • Hides your post pregnancy tummy.
  • Covers you before and after feeding.
  • 100% cotton and machine washable at 30 degrees.
  • The perfect gift idea for someone special who is pregnant.
  • Was invented by a breastfeeding mum for other breastfeeding mums!
  • One size fits all.
  • You can still see your baby and maintain eye contact.
  • New improved soft tactile cotton.
  • Can be used to feed any age baby.
  • The textured fabric is great for disguising creases.

To enter all you need to do is the following:

Go and “like” Mamascarf’s Facebook page here then pop back and leave me a comment letting me know you’ve done it, make sure you leave me a twitter ID or email address so we can contact you if you win!

For an extra chance of winning tweet the following message and then leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve done it.

“I’ve entered to win tickets for the baby show at the NEC from @mamascarf and @dawnie_brown http://wp.me/pWTCL-g0 ”

Max 2 entries per person

Winner will be picked on Sun 1st May at 7pm.

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Baby development, by now your baby should be juggling whilst riding a unicycle

5
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

We all know those emails right? You know the ones that tell you by week 9 your baby may even be able to roll over and should be able to do…etc etc I really need to unsubscribe to them or stop reading them as it’s been getting me down recently.

It was great with Zara, she was always miles ahead of what the emails and books said and I used to get a rush of satisfaction knowing my baby was doing everything that was expected. She was always strong from the start and could hold her head well, she smiled early followed quickly by laughing. Ok so she was a bit slow on the crawling and walking front but not too late really.

Zara taken 14/1/10 at just under 8 weeks old!

Oscar however is a whole different matter! He was 9 weeks old on Monday and is still very much a newborn. He can’t control his head yet, isn’t really very responsive and I’m sure most of his “smiles” are due to wind. He spends most of his time just feeding and sleeping and doesn’t show any interest in the world around him yet.

Oscar aged 9 weeks, still very much a newborn!

By 9 weeks Zara was sleeping through the night and Oscar is still feeding like a newborn and showing no signs of increasing the gap between feeds and I’d been finding myself wanting to push him somehow as 9 weeks of having a “newborn” baby is exhausting work and the lack of progress is very frustrating at times.

It’s only when I got thinking that I really came to realise that there was actually a 7 week age gap between when Zara was born at 41 weeks and Oscar born at 34 weeks! So really in comparison terms I should only be expecting Oscar to do what Zara was doing at 2 weeks old (ie being a newborn!). It makes 100% sense really, Oscar spent the first 7 weeks of his life doing on the outside what Zara did on the inside – growing! He has over doubled in size from his lowest weight so it’s not like he hasn’t been developing at all, just not necessarily in the way it tells you on the emails or in the books!

So today I am going to unsubscribe from all those emails and put away the baby books and just let Oscar develop in his own time. So what if he can’t juggle with flaming clubs whilst riding a unicycle yet 

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