Name labels and wall/window stickers. As the latest craze and with two girls that LOVE them, Stickerscape has got it spot-on with their new range of unicorn wall stickers and name labels. Stick on…
View PostFinally, we have some beautiful weather and what better time than to get outdoors with the kids and enjoy the sunshine. Emily has been taking her Baby born interactive boy doll out and about on adventures with his changing bag all ready for feeding, nappy change and a nap.
She loves her dolls and playing mummy and daddy with her cousin Mason from Mummy and Moose. They visited a little café and took Theo to play but he soon got hungry and needed his lunch so grandma (me) prepared his food which was a baby born food sachet and a bit of water, gave it a stir and then mummy and daddy both fed him and gave him his bottle before carried on playing.
They had a lovely afternoon and they both worked together to take care of the baby, there was a little argument along the way however that was just Emily wanting to take over. They took Theo to the play area where he got to experience a slide and a see-saw for the first time.
Luckily we had his changing bag because Emily thought that he might need a wee, after all the water he drank. They opened the baby born changing bag and pulled out his blue potty, they took his nappy off , once you have adjusted baby’s legs to the sitting position and sat him down on the potty, you just press his belly button and his wee will come out, both kids were very fascinated by this.
When Theo finished his wee, they both helped put his nappy back on and carried on playing until it was time to go home.
Our next adventure was to watch Emily’s sister perform with her Majorettes troupe at a local school fete, Theo came along too and they all enjoyed the day out.
She carried his changing bag around which contains a rattle, a play bottle of talc, nappy and a changing mat. The changing bag is sold separately to the doll and is something Emily loves carrying around with her. We also added the accessories included with the doll into the bag which contains;
You can also buy different outfits separately and extra food sachets separately.
Another one of our adventures was to Asda to do the food shop where Theo got pushed around with Emily on her trike.
Emily is looking forward to more summertime adventures with her baby born, Watch this space.
Baby born Interactive doll retails at £39.99 and can be purchased at all good toy shops.
Following on from My Fairy Garden, Interplay has brought out a new and exciting Unicorn Garden and with the popularity of unicorns at the moment this went down a treat with our girls.
These kits offer children a delightful experience of imaginative open-ended play whilst discovering the magic of growing real plants.
Watching Emily create her own Unicorn Garden was not only exciting and fun for me but also for her to experience. Creating the Unicorn Garden is so much fun as its YOUR garden so you can place the contents wherever you want. The Garden does not come with soil, but you can just pop into your garden and get some or buy a cheap bag and then they can plant other things later.
When the bowl was filled with soil, Emily sprinkled the grass seed all over. Once she had finished placing the contents, she sprinkled the magic fairy dust (glitter in the vial) all over her garden and we found a home for it on our window sill.
The little figures are so cute and she loves taking them out and just playing with them, but she has to put them back after or the magic won’t work.
Over the next week I secretly watered the garden and within a few days, the new grass had started to sprout. I shouted Milly to come downstairs “Something ‘Magical’ has happened”, I lifted her up to see the fairy grass poking up through the soil. Her face lit up with the biggest smile and she said “Wowwwww…”
The grass grows really quick and will need trimming down after a week which Emily liked helping me do. Then the magic continues as it carries on growing.
I would, yes. It would also make an awesome birthday gift for a boy or a girl. I loved watching Emily think about what went where and seeing her eyes light up when she saw the magic grass that the fairy grew. She checks on her every day. The Rrp for this product is £19.99 and can be brought from any good toystore.
If you love mermaids then you will also enjoy reading my review on My Mermaid Lagoon by Interplay.
Before half term chicken pox was doing the rounds at Lydia’s school so it was no surprise that she would get it. I had been on the lookout for spots anyway simply because she has not had it yet. Wednesday morning I noticed a spot on her forehead, I thought it was nothing as it was just one spot so I sent her to school, later when I picked her up she was itchy but well in herself so I just kept a closer eye on her. 
As the afternoon progressed so did her spots which had started to look like blisters, so I ran her a warm bath, cut off a leg from an old pair of tights and filled it with porridge oats, tied a knot and put it in the running bath water to try and soothe the itching, It helped a lot.
Later I went to Asda and bought everything there was for chicken pox relief. Calamine lotion, Virasoothe, Calpol and Piriton syrup, I couldn’t find Poxclin so nanny had to go to boots.
Apart from being itchy, Lydia was more or less her usual self, just felt a bit tired so we spent the day watching films and doing crafts. She went to bed absolutely fine and slept through.
She woke up at 4.30am and got into my bed, she was itching frantically and crying and was really hot to touch, her spots had spread even more and she was full of blisters. They are in her hair, ears, mouth, eyes, face, armpits, back, belly, bum, front bum, legs, behind her ears inside her nose, I had to put socks over her hands to try and stop her ripping them open. So I gave her some more Piriton and Calpol to get the temp down.
At 7 am I ran her another Oaty bath which she didn’t like at first but kept her in it as it stopped the itching. It was heartbreaking knowing there’s nothing more I could do as she had taken all the meds she could.. The itching was so intense and she was exhausted. Someone recommended Poxclin which is a foam type treatment you gently massaged into the skin to stop the itching and reduce scarring. Throughout the day I tried to get her to sleep but she was just crying, screaming, begging for me to make it stop. She had 4 baths that day. Despite all this, she still managed to eat her meals and drink plenty of fluids.
Lydia woke up in a much better mood, still itching but definitely better than day 3. Later in the afternoon she started getting a fever again and some of her bigger spots looked infected and I was worried she was getting sepsis or something so I rang 111 who advised me to take her to the walk-in centre and made me an appointment as she was still infectious. The Dr had a look and agreed that they were infected and prescribed her an antibiotic cream to apply on the infected spots
This is what an infected chicken pox spot looks like
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Lydia was feeling so much better today and her spots have started to scab. I can’t even explain how much I want to pick her and obviously I wouldn’t and didn’t.
No itching and all the spots have scabs on.
Back to school, still spotty and self-conscious however she quickly got over it when she saw her friend Ivan who had also just gotten over chicken pox so they were spotty together
2 weeks later and the spots are still there and fading slowly.
(Dress and shoes from Roco Clothing)
Read all about when Emily had chicken pox here.
Making the slime was so much fun and very easy to do. The girls chose which colour slime they wanted and poured the powder into the shaker. Then they chose which confetti they wanted and added it in. Finally, all they needed to do was fill it to the line with WATER!! pop the lid back on and give it a good shake, leaving it to stand for 5 minutes after.
Now all you need to do is personalise your shaker pot using the stickers included.
It really is as simple and easy as that.
Once you have finished with the slime, pop it back into the stylish carry case to keep it all together. The kids love getting it out and playing with it over and over again. The glitter shines through beautifully making it really pretty to look at and you can hide the little figurines inside your slime to make it even more fun to play with.
Absolutley. This particular product is priced very fairly at £14.99 and there are a variety or different kits available to buy at different prices. The minimum age recommended is 6+, however my nearly 4 year old loved getting involved creating her slime, so with supervision younger one’s could do this too.
