http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com All about babies and children Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:34:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After much thought, we have decided to make The Baby Classifieds a free ad site. This will allow businesses and individuals who supply products or services to families to gain free exposure. The aim in the long term is to make The Baby Classifieds a useful resource for parents.The changes ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2007/06/27/updating-the-site/ Ian and I had a weekend away without the kids- first time in 4 and a half years!!!We were invited to his friend Sarahs wedding in Scotland and it just happened to co-incide with a visit from his mum from South Africa.I have to admit that I found it quite ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2007/04/04/a-weekend-away-without-kids/ I really can't believe that this time has come around... Byron started pre-school last week amid much excitement. He really settled in extremely well. In fact when I arrived at preschool with him on his second day, he ran straight to his key worker and gave her a big hug.Why ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2007/03/06/10-top-tips-for-settling-your-child-in-to-pre-school/ After putting up with spammers for the last five months I finally made the decision to pull the plug on the forum.Unfortunately it is virtually impossible to moderate a forum 24/7 and I could no longer believe what type of sites were spamming us- good riddens I say! Anyway, now that ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2007/02/17/and-down-comes-the-forum/ We had a really lovely break in Bahrain. We visited friends who are working out there and got to sample "the life of the ex-pat". Wow, what luxury! I will go into it in more depth the next time I get a chance to sit down and update the blog. ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/23/cbeebies-live-2/ WE had an unexpected phonecalll from a friend at about 12:45pm to say that she had 2 spare tickets to the Cbeebies LIVE performance (starting at 1.45pm) at Wembley Arena.Somehow we managed to make it in time and I have to say that Ashleigh (my 4 year old daughter) absolutley ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/23/cbeebies-live/ I don't know how many of you have ever had the misfortune of having to hold your 2 year old while a doctor attempted to take blood or insert a cannulae. All I can say is that this last weekend was one of the worst of my life.Both my children ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/21/it-felt-like-my-heart-was-being-torn-from-my-chest/ Yesterday I said I wished my daughter would get chicken pox while she was young... today she's been poxed! Yep, just 3 little spots so far but there none the less. She felt really bad towards the end of the morning at pre-school and had to be collected.As for my ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/12/watch-what-you-wish-for-watch-what-you-say/ My little boy was really grumpy over the last week or so. I thought "surely you're not teething anymore?!" Well as it turns out the poor little fella has chicken pox (or as his 4 year old sister says- chicken pops).Chicken pox is pretty easy to spot (no pun intended). ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/11/chicken-pox/   src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> My daughter has recently started "lunch bunch" at pre-school. Here is the top 10 favourite goodies to choose from.1. Sandwich (the good old favourite. We choose between jam, marmite and cheese spread. The school does not allow peanut butter sandwiches for obvious reasons).2. Fruit (usually an apple, banana ... http://blog.thebabyclassifieds.com/2006/12/08/top-10-ideas-for-packed-lunches-for-kids/