It's that time of the week again and it's been a pretty uneventful week! Apart from realising whilst at BlogCamp with Tots 100 this weekend that I am in fact smaller than I feel! After feeling huge leading up to it, I felt much better leaving BlogCamp seeing people a few weeks behind me with much bigger bumps and people being shocked when they found out I was almost 22 weeks. You can see my little bump below!
Our latest book buddy item from Parragon Books was the 'Jiggly Giraffe Book and Rattle Set' from the little learners range. This is our third of these lovely soft toy/ book gift set combinations. This time the soft toy is a lovely bright giraffe rattle, easily held by little hands. The book is similar to the others, which just happen to be Zach's favourite books, it is a rhyme book containing lovely illustrations.
I'm a few days late with my update this week. I'm finally having to face the fact that I need to calm down and look after myself a bit more. With work, housework, looking after the kids and trying to have fun days out with the kids, I am finding it is really taking it's toll on my body and the Braxton hicks have kicked in at exactly the same point as my pregnancy with Zach.
Well we have had a lovely few days. Was nice to have a break and spend some quality time with the kids. Was hard to keep away from the computer even at night time when the kids were sleeping but I somehow coped!
Just when you think gNappies couldn't get any cuter they announced their new summer collection for girls. It is called 'Gingham Girl', It is a beautiful design, perfect for summer. I can't wait to get hold of it! The collection features the 'Gingham Girl' gPant and matching dress. I'm definitely glad to be having another little girl now so we can invest in some beautiful girly sets.
Today I am 20 weeks pregnant. The weeks seem to be passing by quicker and quicker. Later on today we have our 20 week scan so wish me luck! Hopefully we will get to find out baby's sex once we've checked everything is ok. Gracie is determined it is a girl, I also have an inkling it may be a girl and Andy has voted boy just to be different, so let's see who is right this time.
This week one of the main jobs I wanted to get done was the back garden. Since we moved in in September it hasn't been touched. The borders were full of weeds growing between the flowers, the grass was overgrown and add in the pile of floorboards we have been waiting for the time to take to the local tip, it didn't look pretty!
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The poor overgrown garden |
Our biggest problem was although Zach will happily have a long nap in the day, we still had Gracie to keep busy so I came up with a plan to get her involved. I wanted her to have fun in the Garden but without being told constantly what to do. Last summer we let her grow her own plants but they were lost when we moved house shortly after. So we popped to B&Q and I bought a few little plants for myself and spotted some single Strawberry plants and thought what better idea could we have than letting her grow her own fruit plant? She loves Strawberries which is why we chose that particular plant. I bought a big plant pot and her own little set of gloves and she was very excited to get out in the garden.
We started straight away firstly with clearing the borders. Gracie feeling all grown up, grabbed her choice of garden tools out of our bucket and set to work helping me remove everything. As I wasn't sure what was a good plant and what wasn't, we decided to completely gut it all except my small Rose bush and start from scratch. She loved helping, pulling out weeds, raking the soil and filling the waste into our bucket. We were at it for almost three hours with absolutely no complaining!! So as we had nearly finished it all we left Daddy to finish the last bits while we re-potted the Strawberry plant.
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Gracie's very own Strawberry plant |
I gave Gracie the pot and a small spade to fill it with soil herself then together we took the plant out of it's original pot and I showed her the roots and told her how she needs to water her plant everyday so it'll grow nice and big. She chose a little spot in the Garden to keep it and immediately watered it. Just as we had finished Zach woke up right on cue and she was so excited to show him what she had done and has been remembering to water her plant each day. She also keeps asking to go do more plants with me so the plan has obviously worked.
If you haven't tried it I would definitely recommend as a nice fun activity. It has got us all interested in making the garden look really pretty.
I'd also love more tips for fun in the garden if anyone has any?
We have worked with Great Gizmos a few times now, our most recent being Great Gizmos Christmas Gifts. We always enjoy unpacking our parcel to see what lovely goodies they have sent us to test out and this is our favourite yet! They have sent us a selection of their products that are perfect for Easter from Plan Toys and NICI. Our parcel contained a Jolly Amy cuddly sheep from NICI, Plan Toys My First Baby Book and Plan Toys Chicken Puzzle.
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Having a bit of a moment. As the news hits of the unexpected death of Peaches Geldof at just 25 years old, leaving behind two very small babies, it really makes you realise you just never know how long you have got. We all think about the future. I often wonder what my children will look like as adults? What job will they choose to do? How many children will they go on to have if they choose to have any at all? I never really think will I will be around to see all that?
Wow the time is flying by now! This week I've had a bump suddenly appear out of nowhere, I'm starting to look pregnant rather than fat. Yay! The sickness that consumed me the first three months has completely disappeared. Although has been replaced with some kind of pregnancy related Insomnia, if that is even a thing. No matter how tired I am I am finding it a huge struggle to sleep at night which is so frustrating. I'm getting a max of 4 hours sleep per night. Luckily the kids still nap in the day so I'm managing to have a quick power nap each day with them giving myself energy for a few hours.