A great chair... for more people than you might think...

We bought Sparky a Junior chair from Ikea about a month or so ago. Previously, we had been using a travel highchair as a booster at the table, and due to having straw seated chairs (very van Gogh like) it didn't sit right and was rather unstable. Our dining table is slightly taller than normal - it is an old work table from one of the islands in the harbour, complete with chisel marks etc. So, he will need boosting at the table for a while. I wanted to share that this new chair from Ikea has been fantastic - he loves sitting on a proper chair, and it is so easy to clean too.

The only worrying thing is that I have found it good to sit on, and have now realised that I really need a booster chair....(see the title of my blog for a hint why).

Is it just me?

Does anyone else do this? I have a little book I write favourite recipes in - one side adult, the other kid oriented. I write down my own little changes and tips when I copy recipes. I take this when I go away so that I can cook my own recipes. I lent it to my mother when I had my youngest so that she could cook food for my eldest from the recipes he was was used to eating. I lost it for a while (which was quite distressing!) but recently found it when I did a big clean up. But here's the morbid thing - I make sure my husband knows where it is in case I get run over by a bus. I reason that it's hard enough to lose your mum, without losing all your favourite reassuringly familiar food as well.

In other news (using the word in the broadest sense), Sparky just got his winter shoes, and at 3.5 years, he is now wearing (gasp!) size 11. By my reckoning, he will have the same size as me by around age 7. Which will be handy - stilettos go down a treat with the other boys in the playground LOL.

big babies

No 2 son has caught up already to No 1 son at the same age, despite being 3 weeks early. Now he is above average in size - trying to catch up to tall older brother. Considering I am only 5 foot, I am amazed I give birth to these big boys. I am sure this amazement will only increase. Anyone want to bet when they will catch up to Mum in height???

My first blog:

Wouldn't have thought I would become a blogger, but having lately realised this is a great way to catch up with people I never see cause I have little kids consuming my time, here goes.

The title? from Lord of the Rings: fellowship of the rings. "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future". Yes, my stature is hobbit like. A reminder to myself that even tiny insignificant people can be used by God. My other reference to this is Balaam's Ass - to remind myself that God can speak even through the mouth of asses.

What will you talk about in this blog? anything really, though hopefully nothing harmful. Just expect it to be short and irregular until baby 2 gets bigger.