Little Owl was a very easy baby.  She didn't mind where I took her or when, she didn't mind crowds and fireworks, and equally woul...

Toilet training or potty training is something you see come up on facebook and twitter time and time again.  Its like its a magic art, an...

The lovely Baked Potato Mummy has tagged me in the Mummy Tag.  The idea is for me to answer 20 questions about myself so that my readers...

Testing and assessments start at birth with the APGAR test being carried out at just a minute old. On Friday Little Owl will be assess...

Teeth Still no sightings of those pesky back molars although they are giving Little Owl some gip!  She has however, had her first visit...

When I imagined parenthood, I somehow thought that I was going to magically turn into a domestic goddess, with healthy home cooked meals m...

Little Owl had her first visit to the dentist this week.   She spent the morning practising showing  her teeth. Little Owl wasn...

Last night I wasn't at home. I had travelled 200 miles to go to a meeting I had waved goodbye to Little Owl early in the morning ...

 They don't happen often Actually, in the 21 months that Little Owl has been with us, we've had two date nights. Just two. W...

Papa Owl treated Little Owl and I to a Sunday roast last night.  Its not something we do often but its a lovely treat when we do.  We even...

I've always had an interest in Sign Language ever since the Comic Relief fundraising pack in 1989  included a guide to some basic sign...

...don't wanna be all by myself... (imagining scene from Bridget Jones in my head...) Papa Owl and I are both teachers which has t...

Slow and unsteady, nearly 3 months after her first steps, Little Owl is toddling! The start of the next adventure...

Today we took a trip to the park. We didn't know what to expect, we thought we might be there for an hour, perhaps longer if we ...

Little Owl is a true bum shuffler!  She places both feet together and makes a kind of scooping action, lifting her bum and bouncing forw...

When you find out you are expecting your first child, you start imagining how family life will be together, and what adventures you will ge...

So here I am, my first blog and I’m not really sure why I am here.   I have been fascinated by the blogs I have read over the last year, ...