Alphabet Project - C

I recently discovered a lovely linky, The  Alphabet Project, over at www.podcastdove.com. So here's my contribution for this weeks letter C.

C is for Cuddles.

I have an "owl" baby! She is nocturnal and I am not. But in order to  see the silver lining... I am grateful for these night time cuddles.

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Thankful Thursday Week 21

Welcome back and thank you to last weeks lovely linkers! I was very cheered to see your posts, I loved Max face-diving his cake over at Family Fever, and this weeks list from Beckey at My Really Real Reality contained some really lovely things, cold ginger beer and warm cookies would definitely get my vote  

Thankful Thursday is my weekly linky for us all to share our silver linings, brags, boasts or just something that made us smile. Be it a picture, a word, a sentence or a great big essay lets share what we are thankful for this week. It can be a new post just for this linky, a picture, a video, one word or a thousand this linky is all about thankfulness so whatever has made you grateful this week I would love to know

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My Good Girl

This week Peanut went off on a day trip with the school, some of the mums went along to help but unfortunately I couldn't volunteer as I had no childminder. She had a great day and returned home full of stories, it was really lovely to hear of her adventure.

After she had gone to bed I received this text from one of the mums who had helped out during the trip

It made me puff with pride, I'm really very lucky to have such lovely children and this week I'm thankful that others got to see how lovely my girl is, and what a joy it is to spend time with her.

Read With Me - Oxford Reading Tree

This isn't really a review as such but I really wanted to share with you how wonderfully my Peanut is coming along with her reading.

She  is coming to the last term of Reception and has always done really well with her letters and numbers so I wasn't surprised when her teacher told us that she was excelling in reading group, her school chooses to use Oxford Reading Tree system which has a great resource for helping at home called Oxford Owl with loads of free ebooks and activities to support your child's learning.

Three weeks ago Peanut was on level 4 and this week she came home on level 7 ! This weeks book is called The Jigsaw Puzzle, part of The Biff Chip and Kipper stories, in this adventure the children travel to a far away time depicted in their jigsaw. we are relly looking forward to reading this one. Peanut has really enjoyed all of these books and found some of them very funny especially Monkeys Magic Pipe which she read last week, about a clever monkey who rescued his friends from a mean monster by making the monster dance and tricking him into releasing the animals from his bag.

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 If you have a little person learning to read these books are a great place to start. They have really helped build peanut's confidence in reading.

Green Earth Friying Pan By Ozeri Review

I've loved the look of these pans ever since I read a review over on Outnumbered Mum so I was very excited to be asked to test one.

The pan has a really heavy feel to it, which made me think immediately it will be great for making my Roti bread. It's a really cool colour and totally matches my current colour scheme! 

I decided to try making an omelette in it mostly because I'm really rubbish at making decent looking omelettes. They always stick and end up in several bits, normally the pan gets the blame!

I set to making my current favourite of Red Pepper and Feta. First I fried off some onion and pepper in few squirts of Fry Light Olive Oil. Then while they were softening I whisked up 6 eggs and crumbled in some feta. When the onions and peppers were soft I poured over the eggy mix, stirring it in the pan for a few minutes then left it to cook flipped it halfway and they sliced it to serve three of us for lunch.

 Well I'm pleased to say the omelette made it in one piece and the pan is still non stick, it wiped clean effortlessly with a soft cloth looked as good as new and was ready to go again in no time!

The price is comparable with many big brands on the market and at £23.99 I think it's worth the money, I would really like to collect a set of these now especially this Wok 

Termites Tales -9 months

Yoohoo, well I've now be out almost as long as I was in! Can you imagine? 

This month has been a bit of a crazy one for me, I now have 7, yes I said SEVEN, teeth through and growing rapidly. I can eat pretty much anything Mummy does my favourite is curry and rice or mummy's paella. 

I can do a real proper big kid crawl without looking like a caterpillar and I'm super fast, I mean speedy as can be mummy watches me like a hawk. Better than that though I can pull  myself up, not just on my cot like last month, but on anything. I can climb up Furniture, people, prams, even on the toilet when mummy was running my bath. She didn't seem too impressed with that though! I can also 'cruise' this sounded funny to me when mummy said it but she means I can work my way around the furniture by moving those wriggly things at the end of my legs! I not too keen on put those flat on the floor yet mummy says I have to because walking on my tippitoes isn't very comfy.

I can clap, wave, use my pincer grasp and shake my head to tell mummy I no longer want food.  I still don't like to sleep all night though, mummy has taken me for something called Bowen which has really stopped my reflux pain. But I'm so used to seeing her through the night that I still like her to come give me a few cuddles! 

Wonders of Life App Review and Giveaway

We are BIG Professor Cox fans in Monkeyfeet HQ so I was really excited to be given a chance to review The Wonders Of Life App . A new app from Harper Collins, this is loaded with features, videos and information about, well Life and our World and all of its wonders.

The pictures and videos are super quality and you can zoom around the world looking at Different areas,creatures and insects, there is bucket loads of information under the headings of  North America, Australasia, Sensory, Microscopic and Elements and Processes, there are loads and loads of videos and information and the app is really easy to navigate, its sort of like going on a tour of Life with Professor Cox as your personal guide. I think this will come in really handy when The big kids are looking to research their sciences and geography at school, but for now,its just a remarkably interesting app filled with great features and  priced at £3.99 it really is bargain for the wealth of knowledge that  it comes with.

 You can follow Professor Cox on Facebook or you can read more by visiting Haper Collins

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