Author: ianboichat
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Having a Wobbly
So the day has finally arrived when Maddie has her first wobbly tooth. She is being unbearably impatient though and is desperate for it to fall out. Culminating in a massive strop this evening (or should I say wobbly!) Apparently she is the only girl in her class that doesn’t have a gap in her…
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Obligatory Snow Pictures
Yay the one big dump of snow which is becoming the norm, thought we weren’t going to get any. Went out and did the usual stuff, threw snow balls, built a snowman and then later went sledging over in Boxmoor. Normally I hate graffiti but it does make a good backdrop for pics! (Click on…
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She was a Skater Girl
Took Maddie Ice Skating in Hemel. After about an hour with Pete the Penguin I’d had enough but agreed to stay a bit longer only if she would skate without him which of course she did! Nothing like a bit of extra playtime for motivation!! Managed to do whole laps on her own, ok so…
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Daddies Little Helper
Had a shoot in a larger studio today as we needed to get a group shot of 8 people and Maddie came along to “help”. Loved these chairs so much I bought a couple for my home studio! I did get her to take a few shots and carry things around but she was more…
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Daddy & Maddie do London!
So we had a proper outing today up in London, the London Eye and the London Aquarium complete with sharks. With all this to look forward to it was somewhat of a disappointment that Maddie was more interested in the various buskers lining the embankment doing a poor imitations of various characters (Minnie Mouse amongst…
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Party Time Again!
Maddie’s 5th birthday. We had a great party at Bedmond Village Hall with a Hannah Montana / High School Musical theme. The highlight of which was definitely the bubble or snow machine.
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Need you now
Just lately I seem to be managing to break Maddies habit of only letting Mette put her to bed. Its still only occasionally and today was one of those days – well it was fathers day today and Maddie was trying to be nice. Most of the songs I suggest for Maddie’s playlist she doesn’t…
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Poppy adventure
Having taken some nice pictures when the bluebells were out I decided to try and hunt out some poppies. This wasn’t the easiest task as mostly all I could find was the odd one or two. We heard on the grapevine of a field near Chesham that was “amazing” so one evening we set out…
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Peppa Pig World
Not sure how much longer I will keep this blog going. Maddie is going to be 5 soon and I can already see it becoming a bit redundant with the rise and rise of Facebook. (Frankly I’m surprised I’ve kept it going this long!) That said, this was always meant to be an archive to…
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Chip off the old block
The whole nature nurture thing is a really interesting debate. Obviously you can “lead a horse to water etc” and maybe they’ll take up an interest, sport or hobby. But how much can we as parents really influence other than by exposing our children to different things and seeing what they like. I have no…