The Beesley Buzz: November 2013

Love Your Appliance - The day we didn't have Turkey!

Nowadays I have my own fabulous Beesley Brothers to make sure we have lots of Christmas treats baked on Christmas day! When we saw this fab blogger competition over on Tots100 with PartSelect to share our favourite domestic appliance story, it was actually really hard to...

To feed or not to feed

When T was born 19 and a half months ago, both boys were being home-schooled (and that was pretty much a full time job) so we knew it may well be a bit of a juggling act fitting a new baby into that. For that reason, I didn't have high hopes about breastfeeding for very long....

My picture: His words

Mich over at Mummy from the Heart has just started a new blog hop called My Picture: His Words. I knew I wanted to join in with this as I have been desperately trying to take tiny little steps to re-build my faith. Over the past year, I have found my faith hanging by a thread and...

Duck Tape Colours crafts

When you hear the words duck tape, most people think of the colour grey. That strong silver/grey tape that comes in handy round the house for odd jobs and repairs. Getting its name from being waterproof like a duck (full story here), there is no question about just how essential...

#This is my child and there are too many others like him

This is my child and if I don't stand up for him, who will? When we joined in the Mumsnet #This is my child linky in August, I tried to show the positive side of Autism. The fact that J is not his diagnosis. He is a child first and foremost and he also happens to have ASD. He...

Wot so funee: Non-stop Nose picking!

Whilst Actually Mummy has had some wonderful Wedding vow celebrations recently, we have also had some celebrations of our own. We had Miss T's dedication recently. T wore a special new dress (that impressively Daddy had found for her at ASDA at a totally bargain price!), and the...

Design your dream car with Carcraft

You may remember back in the Summer that Carcraft got kids to get creative and come up with their dream car and 7 year old D put together quite a creation in the garden. Well now it's the grown-ups' turn. We put our thinking caps on and started to come up with ideas about...

Makies Doll Review - Part 1

D has been asked to review an amazing new product which is designed by you and then printed on a 3D printer! How cool is that? We think this is such a unique and creative gift idea - it would really make someones day to get a Makies Doll for Christmas! Here's the first part of D's review: Thanks to Kids' Blog Club, I was put in touch with Makies Dolls to review this...

A day of play at Moshi HQ

Our three little monsters visit Moshi Monsters. We were sooooo very excited to be attending a Moshi Monsters blogger event at Moshi HQ, not least because we had not yet had the chance to visit their new offices in London since they moved out of their Shoreditch offices. We had...

R2BC - A week to be thankful

This week we have a lot to be thankful for. Last week we had various hospital appointments pretty much each day of the week. Thankfully all went well. T was being seen for a squint in her eye (which although they are going to see her again in 6 months, wasn't anything obvious to...

The Grunts All at Sea - Review by J aged 9

The Grunts All at Sea is the second fabulous grunts book by Philip Ardagh (You can see what J thought of the first book, The Grunts in Trouble, here.) Over to J for his review: Mr Grunt has to deliver a POGI to a Mrs Bayliss at a certain time. She lives on an Island. Other...

Book Review: Vulgar The Viking and the Spooky School Trip

Author: Odin Redbeard Publisher: Nosy Crow Review by J, aged 9. Vulgar's new teacher is called Otto the Bone-Cruncher and he's a proper Viking! Otto is big and he headbutts giants. Otto teaches them how to light fires. They go on a school trip up a hill to go camping. They...

Chips Please!

We made a recent discovery the other day after visiting a McD's drive thru and mummy having to distribute chips in the car to the kids. J and D kept calling out 'chip please' when they needed another chip and Miss T started to copy. Since then whenever there are chips in sight,...

19 months old today!

Today, T turned 19 months old. Here's the monthly update of how she's getting on. Oppy and Pah (Hoppy and Patch) now have a new collective name. 'Patch' can be said clearly now complete with the 'tch' sound at the end but both Hoppy and Patch seem to now be called Patch....

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