Wednesday's thumbs up round up.

5 things (in brief) that have made my day brighter, post a comment for more in-depth details!

1. 'My First Classical Music Book' ( Helsby/Chapman)

 

 I am blessed with a son who has music in his heart, he stops and draws his attention to music playing, he'll sit for hours just listening, he falls asleep to heartfelt singing of hymns and lullabies and he dances, oh does he dance! He is a joy to watch with music and this book (new to us) is an immediate favourite. It covers different tones and tempos, different composers and instruments and has a wonderful CD of the perfect classical accompaniments. Double thumbs up, it's lovely!

2. Lillebaby/Tokidoki Carry On

 Anyone in England who went outside today probably got rained on, we got soaked everytime we went out! As enthusiastic as man cub is to walk everywhere sometimes we need to get there right away, like now. Incredibly grateful for having this around today, one snug dry man cub and three journeys made swifter and slightly drier as a result. Did I mention it's painfully funky. It's painfully funky!

3. My Slow Cooker

More than you will ever know do I love my slow cooker. Tomight's incredibly lazy fall part roast chicken is gonna be just as wonderful in pastas and pies for the next few days as it was tonight. Did I mention it makes the flat smell tasty for a bit too. Om! I should probably thank my brother and his fine lady as they bought it for me for Christmas. Great choice guys, great choice.
p.s. I eat my food, I don't photograph it but this is the slow cooker that adorns my work top.

4. Babywearing

Can I still call it that? Childwearing? Boy toting? Either way it's brightened my day. I've spent a long time (so much for super fast broadband...) creating a photo book of our whole babywearing journey. It's been lovely to look over all those cuddles, snuggles, adventures and smug faces. That combined with 'back cuddles' to rescue us from the rain I can't fault babywearing today. Did I mention I've booked onto the Trageschule course for this year? I'm very excited, I get to teach others how to share such a lovely skill. Wear all the babies friends, all the babies!

5. Patrick Ness' 'Chaos Walking' trilogy

 

Oh my word! These books are amazing! I'm tearing through book two at the moment and yes I've resorted to late nights, early mornings and highly anti-conversation tactics to read one more chapter. I can't believe I've never read them before. For my friends who have read them, why didn't you tell me how awesome they are. For my friends who have not read them, you simply must! And on that note I'm back to my book!

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Welcome back nerf herders, shall we begin?

It's been a long long time so I'll not do a recap, I'll just add more detail to my posts when necessary. First things first I'm shuffling this blog a little. It's still going to be quite child/family (note no more baby!) orientated but I'm branching out. I'm gonna talk about general life with a now 4 year old, things I like and don't like, tips for living in a 1 bed apartment as a family of three, book reviews, complaints about lack of cake, cosplay stuff, crafty stuff, basically this is me. Reviewing my life and everything in it. How long before I forget to post regular updates? Place your bets now!