Photos: My Dad in the 80’s with me and my brother (I’m the one who looks like Orphan Annie) and then me and Eliza taken yesterday. What’s it like to walk in Eliza’s shoes? It’s fresh, new, exciting. Everything in her path is something to investigate, from tiny toys to the big pieces of furniture…
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Subtracting Ofsted from the early childhood learning equation
Read moreToday we have a very special guest post, from none other than Grannie G, my mother-in-law and the original Gill Crawshaw (yes, it can get confusing at Christmas). She’s been the manager of the lovely Slinn Street STARters Community Pre-school in Sheffield for 28 years and is passionate about the nurturing the happiness and well-being…
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Minding the – baby age – gap
Read moreWhat’s the perfect gap between babies? I know, déjà vu, I’ve talked about this before. But it’s been on my mind today as I realised that if I got pregnant this month then there would be exactly two years between children. We’d previously thought that would be along the lines of the right gap size…
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Walk the walk: on baby milestones
Read moreThis weekend we were at my parent’s house near the beach, and on Easter Sunday we all went down to the pier. It was, to everyone’s surprise, a beautiful day, so we took Eliza out of her pram to have a walk around by herself. She took a few tentative steps at first, gripping our…
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On sickness and sofa days
Read moreSigns my child was ill: #1: she refused toast #2: she refused my toast #3: I handed her my iPhone and she wasn’t interested Poor Eliza! She’s been struck down with the dreaded lurgy since Tuesday. She did seem vastly better yesterday, but then had a sudden relapse early evening, and indeed we were up…
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A Tale of Three Back Teeth
Read moreOnce upon a time there was Alex, Gill and Eliza, and there was the next instalment in the tale of the terrible thing called teething… Our story begins during lunch three weeks ago. My mum, who was visiting, spotted something unexpected. “What is THAT in the back of Eliza’s mouth?” she asked. It was a…
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How to travel by train, with a toddler
Read moreWe’ve just got back from a lovely, long weekend in Sheffield (Eliza had a lot of Grandparent time, hung out with her cousin and went to a playgroup. Alex and I even had a baby-free night in the pub). Living in London means we don’t need to have a car, and as we have no…
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