New years eve..a fishy outing!

As much as time as a couple is important in the world of Parenting, I cannot understand the need to go out and waste lots of money on new years eve only to have a hangover to show for it the next day.  So instead, this year we've opted to use a fraction of that cost and go for a day out at THE DEEP!

We told Rio the night before and getting into bed, and up the next morning, was a constant chant of 'fishes'. Rio was also convinced he'd see a penguin. Highly unlikely little man!

See the middle photo? That's his cheeky little reaction to seeing penguins, okay...not real penguins..but I had told him repeatedly there'd be NO penguins!

He spent the rest of the time running around and sitting at various tanks in awe!

As for when 12 oclock comes? We'll all be tucked up in bed waiting for the fireworks and text messages to wake us up again. We're so rock and roll! ;)

Christmas Craft: Lightbulb edition!

I've been working non stop up to Christmas, so getting in the festive spirit this year has been harder than usual. I use every minute I get with Rio getting him to be excited for Santa, crafting and singing away. So when I was asked if I wanted to enter a Christmas craft competition I thought why not? I'm not really good but every little helps ;)

The task? To decorate a lightbulb!

My first attempt, a reindeer, kind of 'melted' when I dried him with the hairdryer. Oopsie!

So I raided the cupboards for another bulb, the last one, remind me to buy another, and started again with a more 'simple' design.

- First I covered the metal with red tape then added red ribbon.

- I then let Rio splodge some gold glitter glue on and added little pom poms to those areas.

- I then finished off by putting little dots of silver glitter glue to the bulb. And although it doesn't look in the pictures, in real life the clear glass with the little dots actually does like quite pretty.

If like me, you'd like to do some Christmas crafts, or even enter to win £100 John Lewis vouchers last minute. You can read all the details here.

Christmas crafts with Hobbycraft

I hear "want to draw", countless times a day. Rio loves drawing. He'll get out his crayons and his paper and will happily sit and draw circles ("snowmen") endlessly. Recently we've been venturing out into crafts.. leaf art, footprints, painting and what not. So when asked if we'd like to try out Christmas crafts I thought, why not?

Annalise is craft crazy so of course we invited her over to join the fun.

The candy canes, glitter gingerbread men etc given to decorate the tree were so creative and easy to use but the star was a little fiddly to keep balanced.

If you've ever been to Hobbycraft you will know that the list of things to do/create is endless, so there is something for everyone, quite literally! If tree's aren't your thing why not have a go at creating your own wreath?

This kit retails at £5 and is currently included in hobbycrafts 3for2 offer!

Overall they were lots of fun to do, even at Rio's age, and made great personal decorations for the Grandparents!!

This product was sent to me free of charge for review. The content and opinions however are all truthful and my own!

Rio's first advent experience

Other than buttons, Rio wasn't really much of a chocolate eater last year so we didn't get him an advent calendar. This year he's a bit more interested in Christmas, and chocolate, so when Craigs mum offered to quilt him one we was like "yes please grandma". Its filled with a mixture of things, mainly Christmas themed chocolates and kinder. And although he doesn't know how to find the right number, he has pretty good fun guessing :)