The Week According to Sam- Week Five
Week FIVE?? How did we get to week five with me still partially SANE? Having survived Christmas as well, I think that’s not half bad. The week according to Sam this week included the family we so looked forward to visiting, leaving us. Grandma left on Tuesday and Auntie Julie and the cousins left on Friday. Thankfully Auntie Julie and the family will be back for one night before heading back to Australia, however. We don’t know when we’ll possibly see them again for a long while so we’re very much looking forward to this last upcoming visit.
In addition to having to say goodbye to family, we had some other fun family adventures while Daddy enjoyed some much needed (and deserved) holiday from work. Mid-week, we had a wonderful family photo shoot at a local photo studio. Despite our best intentions to leave the house with plenty of time to arrive, we ended up being 30 minutes late and my last shred of patience was obliterated. We were rushed through our shoot and while we did end up with some lovely images and the whole family was very beautifully immortalised, we just didn’t get enough time to get some of the shots I wanted. Hey-ho…we’ll just have to go again.
Sam continues to grow, change and develop. We’re even getting proper SMILES now! It takes some coaxing (and is usually brought on by Mummy’s voice) but they are REAL and not just wind. Sam is also staying awake longer after feeds and settling into a teeny bit of a routine. We are still co-sleeping but are also weaning a bit by having Sam sleep a few hours in his Fisher Price Cruisin’ Motion Soother which makes Mummy and Daddy happy too.
Here we have the week according to Sam- week five, in pictures…
Grandma gets one more evening to spend with Sam. Sam is suitably soothed and chilled at the same time!
Time for one last photo with Grandma and the kids before Grandma flies back to the US. We’ll miss you Grandma…hope to come visit YOU this summer!
Wonder of wonders! A picture with Sam and ME! Of course, taken by my fair hand…again! But still, a lovely moment with me and my boy.
A nice little cuddle with Daddy. Sam seems to be staring at the picture on Mark’s shirt…or wondering whether to poop! Could be either or both!
Told you! He’s smiling! We had a series of several smiles while Nanny held Sam. A real treat for Nanny and one I managed to capture on camera!
New Year’s Eve…and all is quiet! One of those rare moments. Shhhh…
We’ll start the year as we mean to go on, shall we? Loves and kisses anyone?
Next week we’re back to normal…Daddy back to work…Ella back to school…Mummy freaking out! What will happen in the end…God only knows!
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AMD Experience- HD Quality Clips
If you’d like to learn more about AMD, please visit their site to explore all of the options available. Now if someone can just teach me how to stream movies to the Toshiba notebook or how to download movies, I’d really appreciate it. I am SO behind the times on this stuff! I only just bought my first downloadable album on iTunes last month. It’s dangerously easy! I can’t wait to play my Glee Vol. 5 download on these Toshiba NB550D speakers though…get down and boogie!
I’ll see you tomorrow for another testing session on the AMD Experience.
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I’m trying to claim my site! Technorati…anyone who can explain the bloomin’ thing to me…let me know by commenting below. All this SEO stuff is difficult and spirit crushing!
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Read MoreGreat Ormond Street Hospital Charity
For those of you in the UK, you’re probably well aware of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. For those of you who don’t know about Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), here’s a little information about it:
Great Ormond Street Hospital is full of remarkable children whose bravery touches everyone.
As one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, with our supporters, we help keep the magic alive for children who need our help.
The hospital sees over 200,000 patient visits every year, and is often the only place of hope and expertise for children with complex and life-threatening illnesses.
The Hospital for Sick Children first opened it doors at 49 Great Ormond Street on Valentine’s Day, 1852, with ten beds. Dr Charles West was the driving force behind its opening, driven by the shockingly high level of infant mortality in the capital.
The first in-patient was Eliza Armstrong from Lisson Grove, suffering from Phthisis & Bronchitis. The first child admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital as an out-patient was two-year-old George Parr, who had catarrh and diarrhoea – not serious by today’s standards, but this was a time when one third of children born in London died before adulthood.
When I was working in Peoria, Illinois in the US I was very involved with fundraising for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital so it’s particularly important to me, now that I live here in the UK, to support other Children’s Hospitals when I can. One of my fellow bloggers, Emily at Brits in Bosnia, contacted several blogger to ask for their support of the latest charity appeal for GOSH. The X-Factor contestants have released a charity single, Michael Jackson’s “You are Not Alone” for this year’s appeal. I watched the show last Sunday when they performed (albeit lip-synched) the new single and it is very good…but then again, I quite liked the original as well. You can download the X-Factor single “You are not Alone” HERE as well as watch the video HERE. The real star of Sunday night’s X-Factor show was Oscar, a very brave young lad who’s had an extremely difficult young life. See more about Oscar HERE…you’ll be very moved by his story.
Having Little Miss in our lives now brings home how important it is to have quality care for children who are ill. Hopefully we will never need the services of Great Ormond Street Hospital but, God forbid, if we do, it’s reassuring to know they are there. Please support the cause of Great Ormond Street Hospital by downloading the X-Factor single. Thank you for your support.
Read MoreMiffy Comfort Blanket Competition
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I’m sure everyone who sees this image immediately knows who it is! “Ah, yes, Miffy!” Miffy was created in 1955 by Dick Bruna who, while on holiday with his family, would tell his oldest son bedtime stories about a white rabbit who lived in the garden of the holiday home. And thus began a loveable childhood character. I was contacted by Highlight PR to see if I was interested in running a competition for my faithful readers with some Miffy products as the prize. But of course I was interested…I’m always trying to find lovely things for my readers! And so I present you with the following, courtesy of Highlight PR and Miffy:
Pink Miffy Comfort Blanket
Blue Miffy Comfort Blanket
Yes, that’s right! There are two different Miffy Comfort Blankets on offer! A Pink Miffy Comfort Blanket and a Blue Miffy Comfort Blanket! But not just one of each, but TWO of each. There will be 4 WINNERS in total…2 winners of the PINK Miffy Comfort Blanket and 2 winners of the BLUE Miffy Comfort Blanket! How very generous!
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
Pink Miffy Comfort Blanket- Laura Campbell and Sian To
Blue Miffy Comfort Blanket- Susan Hopkins and Kelly Smythe
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners (you have been notified by email) and THANK YOU to all of you who entered. Come back soon for the next great competition at Cafe Bebe!
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The Potato Story
McCain, the UK’s major potato company (they make lovely chips!), is working to extend their national roadshow programme in a bid to close the food knowledge gap of UK kids. In their “Food for Thought” survey of 1500 children between ages 7 and 11, taken in February 2009, McCain discovered the following nuggets of information:
- 1 in 10 children aged 7-11 think chickens lay potatoes
- 1 in 5 have no idea that potatoes are grown in the ground
- 1 in 5 didn’t realise that chips are made from the humble spud
This is a bit more than a little distressing! I remember watching Jamie Oliver in his School Dinners Campaign a couple years back (I know…it’s controversial!) and the kids that he was trying to help had no clue what most vegetables looked like or what they were called. Granted, they were in a rather impoverished part of the country but they didn’t know what broccoli was! My previous post focused on the Tesco site, Greener Living, and touched on the idea of food provenance. How can we let our children grow up not knowing where potatoes come from? Potatoes are lovely! Chip form is my most favourite as is evidenced by my expanding waistline!
McCain, lovely maker of all things potato, are embarking on a major project: The Potato Story. And because I believe in educating children, particularly about where their food comes from and to have an appreciation for the process, I am giving The Potato Story a little plug. The website is lovely, educational and fun and I really admire McCain for kitting out a very cool potato double-decker bus and chugging it around the country to help our uneducated youth. The Potato Bus has already been travelling across the country, visiting over 130 UK Primary schools and has, to date, reached out to more than 17,400 primary school students. The Potato Story aims to plug kids’ food knowledge gap. Now a part of a wider campaign by McCain called “It’s all good”, The Potato Story highlights the company’s long term commitment to educating kids on food provenance and is set to visit around 30 schools throughout September to November of this year. So, if you’re lucky, a giant potato plastered double-decker bus will pull up into your child’s school car park and your child will have the experience of seeing, first-hand, where potatoes really do come from. The bus also provides curriculum-aligned lesson plans for teachers to use in class. What more could you ask for from a Potato Bus??
The lovely and talented Kim Hong, at Fleishman Hillard, sent us some brilliant information about The Potato Story, including a packet of potato seeds which will be actively “digga digga” by Little Miss and Daddy when the season is right. Little Miss also has some new gardening tools to be the next great gardener. Thanks Kim, Little Miss will have the dirt flying in your honour. I’ll send you her dirty clothes! I’m really excited, though, to see Little Miss learning about gardening and can’t wait for next spring/summer because I promise you, there will be vegetables growing in this household. Little Miss is brilliant at picking and liquidising tomatoes at her Nanny & Grandad’s; can’t wait to have it happen here. Although Little Miss is not old enough to see the Potato Bus, it is one of my silent promises to her; that I will do my very best by her and part of that is learning about the world around her and having a greater appreciation for it. She doesn’t know that wasps are nasty or that some flowers are poisonous or that sometimes it’s not just dirt that she’s “digga digga-ing”, it just might be some cat poo. All she knows is that she loves being outside, seeing nature and being a part of it. I’ll try to keep my obsessions in check and let her explore and learn. And when it’s rainy, we’ll grab our Crayola Crayons and colour some pictures of what vegetables are until we can learn some more. Go check out The Potato Story and learn a bit about potatoes! I guarantee, you won’t be disappointed.
For those of you who are Americans and are old enough to remember the first President George Bush and his Vice President, Dan Quayle, you will laugh at this one: ever since Dan Quayle screwed up spelling the word POTATO (he spelled it POTATOE), I have constantly checked myself anytime I wrote the word POTATO! Imagine how much checking I have just been doing. I think I’m OK though…please let me know if you spot any POTATOES!
Wonder if the fare is "cheap as chips"! HA!
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