Book Review - Scaredy Boo!



Front cover of the book

BoyG having a look

BoyG loves having a story before he goes to sleep. I enjoy reading with him as its usually once BabyG is in bed so we get to spend some real quality time together.

I have kindly been sent a book to review from Parragon Books. Its a picture book for children. It is called Scaredy Boo! and is written by Claire Freedman and illustrated by Russell Julian.

I really enjoyed reading this with BoyG tonight and he sat quietly throughout the whole story (very rare indeed!).



BoyG's favourite page

  

This is a story about a little monster named Boo who lives under a bed and is afraid of everything and everyone - even his own shadow! This is until he starts to play with Spike and the other monsters and go exploring. Scaredy Boo! is written in rhyming verse and it is beautifully illustrated with brightly coloured pages. This is definitly a new favourite of ours!

Boo and Spike

This book is available in book stores, the cover price is £5.99 but I was kindly sent a copy by Parragon.





My little fighter battles again!

Well... What a day!!!

Little BabyG has been a bit poorly lately with a cough and cold. We have had a bad couple of nights, and he has been hard to settle. He has been very sleepy as well. This is what rang alarm bells with me as that is what would happen if his heart wasn't doing what it should be, like before.

I was unsure if it was anything serious. I thought maybe it was just because he had a cold. That always knocks me out when I am ill!

Luckily I thought to send a text to the doctor who I have mentioned in a previous blog. She helped to save BabyG when he was poorly with his heart and I have stayed in contact with her. So I text this morning asking for advice, thinking she would say it sounds fine. She told me to take the baby to a and e so he could get checked as it could be more serious. This lady is wonderful. She is an amazing person, and has helped Riley so much before. So if she says take him then I take him!

I dropped BoyG off at my neighbours and I drove straight to hospital. BabyG and I sat in a and e for hours, we saw a nurse, a doctor and a paediatrician. BabyG was diagnosed with Bronchialitis. As if he hasn't had enough to deal with already, poor little boy!

So much for the doctor telling me a few days ago 'Its just a cough. No need to worry'.

We are now on a ward full of babies who all have the same thing. Breathing is hard work for BabyG. He is mostly managing when he is awake but when he is sleeping he needs a bit of help with some oxygen. He has had an inhaler which seems to have stopped him coughing as much. They are expecting him to get worse before he gets better but BabyG has already proved to be such a brave little fighter so I have every confidence he will come through this quickly.

Get well wishes for my precious little boy please! Lots of prayers for a speedy recovery!

Slow Cooker Sunday

Here is one of my favourites for the slow cooker - Chilli!!

I had never made this before until BoyGs Birthday this year where I made it for 20 people! Now I make it quite often for just the 3 of us (BabyG doesn't have dinners yet!). It's one of DaddyG's favourites. BoyG doesn't love it but he doesn't love anything with crunchy bits (thats vegetables to you and I!) but its good for him so he gets it anyway!

This time it was just me and DaddyG having dinner as BoyG had been out at his friend's for tea so I was able to make it fairly spicy! It was delicious! It fits perfecty into my diet, and there was enough that I could have some the following day as well.

Very simple-

Brown the minced beef and put it into the slow cooker. Fry some red pepper, onion and garlic and add to the cooker. Throw in some tinned tomatoes, kidney beans, and spices and your away! Yummy!

Swimming Lessons!

BoyG has started swimming lessons at Birch Farm. We told him he was going to go, and bought him a swimming bag. He was so excited!! The first thing he said to me this morning was "Is it my swimming lessons today?". We had a little bit of confusion with his trunks or trunk.... BoyG told me very seriously that we need to go and buy him a trunk. I explained that he had got swimming trunks already and that I would make sure we took them with us. He shouted at me as if I was stupid, and said "I didn't say trunks I said trunk!!!!'. I tried to explain that it was swimming trunks.... He was covering his eyes and I figured out what he meant when he said trunk... "Sweetie do you mean goggles...?". He nodded at me as I finally understood what he meant. I went on to explain that he didn't have any but that he didn't need them yet!

He was still excited despite not having a 'trunk'. So we set off for the pool....

Well he howled for half an hour and didn't relax at all!! DaddyG and I could hear him from behind a glass window!

When BoyG came out of the pool I asked if he liked his lesson. He replied 'No!'. I asked why he didn't like it.... He burst into tears and sobbed 'Pos I thought I was having a truuuunnnnkkkk!!!!'

We will have to buy a pair of goggles before next Wednesday I think!! Fingers crossed he likes it a little bit more next week.....

Silent Sunday

Slow cooker sunday

I needed something quick and easy for tonights dinner as I was out all day with the boys. I also needed something a fussy 3 year old BoyG would eat....

I used a piece of gammon, some potatoes, apple, onion, garlic and peas. I added a vegetable stock cube, a bay leaf, some water and some ground black pepper. The slow cooker was set on high and I went out for the day.....

I came home after a busy day to a house that smelled divine!! The gammon just fell apart when I took it out of the pot. I served it with some carrots.

And the best part of it.... BoyG ate the lot!! Nice healthy dinner and a full up boy. Can't beat that can you?!

A day out at Birch Farm

BoyG has been a good boy and has been getting lots of stickers on his chart. So as promised, we went to Birch Farm. We met some friends there with their children and ended up staying there all day.

The children are kept busy, with a bouncy castle, lots of toys, a big caterpillar tunnel, two big slides, a ball pit and play houses.

There is an area for small children and babies. BabyG was happy to use a bouncy chair from the little area. He sat and watched the bigger children play.

Mummies are also kept happy with coffees, teas, lunches and cakes! They have lovely home made food and lots of choice.

We stayed for lunch and I had taken a cake with me so we all had some yummy beetroot & chocolate cake.

There is also a swimming pool there but we didnt swim today. We have done before, and BoyG will shortly be starting swimming lessons there.

BoyG was suitably worn out and promptly fell asleep in the car on the way home! He really enjoyed himself. If he gets all his stickers this week he will get to go again next Friday!