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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.

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.

Bella Vista

The view from Bibsey Towers

On motherhood

All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups...

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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…]

Noisy, noisy, noisy Spain

February 6, 2011 by bibsey mama Leave a Comment

It is positively spring-like here in Andalucia. The blossom is out on the hillsides and we are walking everyday with the Bibsey in the backpack (an item right up there on our list of baby kit we could not have done without). And with the arrival of warmer weather comes more noise. Spain, I think, … [Read more…]