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Now she is Five
… nearly six actually. Now that she is five she is at school from 9am until 4pm everyday. She has had her first solo playdate in the pueblo with a boy from school. She tells me that they fight “but not hitting”. OK, great. They mostly play Barbies.
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Glamp Lamp
Looks gorgeous, right? Butter wouldn’t melt? Wrong. She has just handed me the biggest bogie ever to have graced this house, wearing exactly this expression. Stay alert, people. And beware 5 year olds bearing gifts.
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Bella Vista
The view from Bibsey Towers
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On motherhood
All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups...
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Baby

Terrible things I have done to my baby Part II

May 20, 2011 by bibsey mama 10 Comments

Hmm. It has been a while since I last wrote about the dreadful things that I have done (or let happen) to my baby. So long in fact that my baby is now more like a little girl. As they grow I guess so does a certain amount of complacency within mums and dads. Where … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Motherhood, Occasional confessional Tagged: baby, Bibsey, Crawford, Parenthood

I am drunk… with sleep

May 12, 2011 by bibsey mama 7 Comments

Alternative post title: MY BRILLIANT BABY My brilliant child slept until 7am this morning. She has been ‘sleeping through’ for a little while now, by which I mean not waking in the night but waking for the day at any time between 5am (horrible, just horrible) and 6.15am (barely sociable but acceptable). So this morning … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Sleep Tagged: baby, Bibsey, sleep

Nanny McThurerford’s famous patented Bum-slap and other ways to get your baby to sleep

April 22, 2011 by bibsey mama 5 Comments

Right, does anyone else bum-slap their baby to sleep? In this house we have moved pretty neatly from a bed-time boob dependency to a bum-slap dependency and I just don’t know how it happened. And before you all send round Social Services, by slap I of course mean pat. PAT. P.A.T. We call it the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Motherhood, Sleep, Weaning Tagged: Bibsey, gina ford, Parenthood, sleep

These are my lucky years

April 10, 2011 by bibsey mama 7 Comments

And so. I am struggling with the blog/life balance and of course life is winning hands down. And quite rightly when life has been looking a little like this… It seems that the heat has arrived here in Southern Spain and along with it picnics, barbeques and lazy días en el campo. Today we headed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Baby, Motherhood, Spain Tagged: Bibsey, Parenthood, spain, Totally Smitten Daddy

10 things I can tell you about giving birth in Spain

March 25, 2011 by bibsey mama 17 Comments

Parental Advisory. I have been trying to write this post since I started the Bibsey Blog a couple of months ago. I wanted to write something responsible and helpful, but every time I return to it, it seems to me that what I have written is perhaps too negative. So, I think that this post … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Childbirth, Expat files, Spain
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