Adventures in Baby Wrangling


10
Jan 11

Janus * 3

Time certainly flies, and it hard to believe that that young person who we had a very verbal battle of the wills with over dinner was ever the little shaggy haired baby who could be kept immobile in a bumbo!

2009

We are now redundant...

2010

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2011

Trainspotter

Taken at Stevenage train station last Tuesday. It was very cold but there were trains and planes (overhead) which means it was the best day ever!

Dad Type Urchin

And she's looking more and more like my dad every day!


4
Jan 11

Handmade Concentration

Last week I introduced Amelia to the game Concentration which we were playing on the Lego website. However, Jon and I have decided to introduce and enforce a no iPhone/iPad usage routine for now (and are also limiting TV/Wii access until after 4pm) so while routing through my endless array of craft materials I decided I’d make Amelia a set of a cards for off line play.

What you need:

  • Paper cutting implement of choice
  • Heavy Cardstock
  • unless you can find some Dutch Ivory Board in the ‘smalls’ size which one of our local news agents has stuck away in a corner.
  • Card making/scrap book motifs. I picked up some today in HobbyCraft in the sale that are self adhesive
  • Glue

What I did:

  • I have a corner rounder cutting thingie so I rounded the corners on the cards (16) – they are about the size of playing cards.
  • I then stuck a motif in the middle of each card so that I had two cards with the same motif on them.
  • I had a cup of tea, because that’s it!

These would make great little gifts/favours with motifs chosen in a specific theme if you like, and tied with a bow to keep them together.