No chocolate in the house

What does a mother do when there is no chocolate/comfort food in the house, it's too much effort to get out of the unit with 2 small children, down 2 flights of stairs, into the car and to the supermarket to buy some?

Raid the two-year-olds tiny teddies to have with her afternoon coffee.....mmmmm!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I SO wish this was:

a. me right now, or
b. my daughter from 7pm- 7am every night.

Unfortunately things are more like this at night for Zoe:


and more like this for Mummy:

Finally....she rolls!!

In other breaking news today, at 7 months and 3 weeks, Zoe finally manages to roll from back to front all by herself......and I missed it!! I put her down on her mat for a while to play while I attended to a few work things, and lo and behold when I returned to her she was on her tummy!! Go Zoe! Now, I just want to witness the event myself.



She can already roll from front to back. That was the easy direction. So I'm very proud of today's efforts. Now crawling, here we come!

Big boy bed....

I've been thinking non-stop about Josh transitioning to a single bed some time soon. I have decided that once we move into our new house that I will start him off in the bed then. I'm hoping that will be ok for him (besides, Zoe will need his cot very soon!). He usually loves going to bed so I'm hoping that moving to a bed won't be too troublesome for us all.

I have been looking for a while for some nice bed sheets for his new bed, and today while at Myer decided to get him this car themed Sheridan set as it was 30% off. He is car-obssessed at the moment - he has about a gazillion of those Matchbox/Hot Wheels type cars and insists on going to bed with a few of them each night. I'm guessing he will like his new bed and so not have a problem sleeping in it!





I bought him the quilt cover, pillow case and decorative wheel pillow in the first picture and the sheet set in the blue gingham in the second picture.

Hope he LOVES it!

The cheeky two

Just thought I would share this very cute pic of my cheeky two.....Josh's latest thing is for me to put Zoe in his bed and for them to lie down together and pretend to go to sleep. He just LOVES having her in his bed. It's the sweetest thing to watch. He puts his head down on the pillow next to her and makes these loving and contented noises while sucking on his beloved dummy. I hope he always is this loving to his little sis.

about mum/toddler/babe

I am a mum.

I am 37 this year (aaaah! when did that happen?).

When I started this blog in 2009, I had a toddler and a babe.

Now my toddler is starting school this year, my babe is starting preschool and we have a new newborn baby.

I love coffee.

I love where I live.

I love peace and quiet.

I love getting packages in the mail. If you'd like to send me something, please email me at mumtoddlerbabe@yahoo.com or send it straight to PO Box 135, Oyster Bay, 2225.

I love to play piano.

I love listening to my fave music in the car turned up really loud.

I'm often tired and sleep deprived.

I'm finally running my own business - yay!

I have a VERY big sweet tooth.

I need to lose weight. Again.

I can roll my tongue both ways.

I have an iPhone but would love a laptop, maybe a MacBook Air.

I love to tell people about the things I've found or bought that I believe are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I'm still learning to use my camera.

I used to love reading books before I had children - now I just don't have the time or I fall asleep after reading 10 words.

I love my sleep but don't get a lot of it.

I love doing the clothes washing but hate packing away the clean clothes.

I love manicures, pedicures and massages.

I'm more of a night person than a morning person. Which is not so good for getting the much needed sleep I need.

The thing that makes waking up in the morning more bearable is my little boy squashing my cheeks and saying 'i love you so much mummy'.

My husband wanted one more baby......and finally got his way in November 2011 with the arrival of baby number 3.

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