A year on :)

Ok so its been nearly a year since I updated my blog. Dexter is now 1 and walking. Logan is now 4 and Lexi will be 6 next month. Time really does fly by. We have had a very busy year keeping busy.

Logan has started a new nursery which he will be staying at until he starts school in Jan, he should have
started school in September but we chose to put it back as we were hoping we would be further along in his autism assessment and that his speech would start and pick up. He is doing well but really does need a lot of 1 on 1 help and is not quite ready for school yet.

Lexi has 2 more days left in year 1 and will be in her final year at infant school in September, im amazed how quick the years seem to be flying by and I am incredibly proud of the progress that Lexi has made over the last 12 months and so please that she has formed a close bond with a few great friends.



Dexter just had his 1st birthday and is a little sweet heart, he has just started walking and is very chatty and happy. He is a complete pleasure all the time, ok maybe not on the odd few nights where he decides 1am is time to wake up and try wake the whole house up, but thank fully those nights arnt as frequent as they used to be.

Funky Giraffe bibs & more review (part 2)

Back in May I blogged about some fab products we received from funky giraffe bibs!


Now little man is here and big enough to fit in them its time for part 2!


Lets start  with the bodysuits! We received the sky rocket vest! 

Here is my little poser showing it off


The material is high quality and very soft and you may remember me saying in the part 1 review how good the quality of the print is!


I love the designs because they are not the standard slightly boring things you tend to find in high street shops.


I like things that stand out and these sure do :)


The vests cost £8 and while this is higher than the average baby vest I do believe they are well worth the extra pennies due to the high quality and the uniqueness of them :)

Next is the hats :)


Its still pretty big on Dexter but as you can see it is very cute!


I like the unusual style and it reminds me of a little elf.


The hats are £4 and come in a variety of colour combos. Again the hats are very good quality and very soft :)


I Particularly like the pink and green one but not so sure my little man would agree with that .

Bibs :)


The bibs are funky little things that come in so many fantastic designs!


As shown in part one of the review they are backed with fleecy material and attach using poppers.


So far they have passed the absorb test of do they keep clothes clean and dry as it has caught all of Dexters milk and keeps his clothes dry!


The real test will be when we start to wean him!


The bibs are £4 if you buy them individually but funky giraffe have a fantastic discount scheme where the more you buy the cheaper they get! For example if you buy 5 they cost £11 working out at £2.20 each or 10 would be £20.50 working out at £2.05 each!


I believe they are well worth the money! They look awesome on looking more like a clothing accessory than a bib and do exactly what they are supposed to. I plan on buying at least 5 closer to xmas when we will be starting to consider weaning :)


All in all I am loving funky giraffe bibs products and I think Dexter does too :)

1st Weekly slimming post :)

I am going to blog about my weight loss journey once a week until Im slim (and thats going to take some time lol) 


I joined slimming world on 9th July and so far have lost 15.5lbs, but my will power is really starting to be a struggle (for example last night I ordered a pizza and chocolate cake and washed it down with wine at 10pm lol) I am already dreading mondays weigh in...


Im wearing my zaggora hotpants everyday but have done a lot of exercise yet (waiting until the 6 week check to start on the exercise as i dont want to over do things)


Im hoping that my total weight loss this time next year will be 5 stone so I have a very long way (3 stone 12.5lbs) to go!


Weight loss progress


16th July - 10lbs off
23rd July - 3lbs off - 13lbs total
30th July - 2.5lbs off - 15.5lbs total

Birth announcement and back to blogging

Ok I have had quite a while off from blogging (just over 2 months) The end of my pregnancy was so tiring and I had so many appointments and hospital visits I didn't have much time for anything else lol!


For those who dont know I had my baby boy on July 2nd - 4 days late weighing 7lbs 15oz. We have called him Dexter Eli :)


Here is a few photos of our precious little bundle :)

 Dexters 1st photo

And finally at 4 weeks old, he has changed so much already!

Mummy and Dexter look forward to blogging and reviewing!

Beauty and the Bib Review

 We were kindly sent this beautiful bib and bloomers set from Beauty & the bib.


My first impression was that the bib was a good size to keep dribbles off clothing, is a bright and funky design and the bloomers are the perfect match for it ( I particularly like the little green green ribbon bow on the bloomers which is very cute.


We tried them out with little Liara :)

The set came beautifully presented in a matching Organza bag (although if you buy from them it comes in a fab gift box)


As you can see the bib covers every way dribble could get down onto her clothes and it looks very cute on!


We found that the bib soaked up all the milk and dribble Liara was able to spill and dribble down with ease and would have been able to handle a lot more as well




The bib washes beautifully and comes out looking new with every wash!

This particular set costs £20 on the website   while this may seem a touch expensive it would make a fantastic gift for a christening or baby shower and really does look fantastic! Bibs can be bought seperatly at £8 each. All in all I would say that these bibs are fantastic quality and look stunning on. I personally would probably only buy them as special gifts due to the price tag but I would say if you have the money go for it as they are worth it!

Beauty and the bib have a very large range of products which isnt limited to just bibs, I personally LOVE these cute pirate slippers (£6) There is also the option on their website at the moment to sign up to their newsletter and get 20% off your 1st order!

34 week baby shopping

I have had a busy shopping week trying to get everything sorted as I was feeling a little bit unorganised!

On Monday I went to boots to take advantage of their 3 for 2 on baby items offer and some vouchers I had from he parenting club!

I  did it in 3 till trips because im strange like that lol 

1st I got

Tomy Classic monitor - £35.75

Avent Microwave steam steriliser - £24

Grobag egg room thermometer - £21.99

Avent Philips Future mother must haves - £15.75

The future mother must haves was discounted to £0 as I had a voucher to get it free when I spent £10 on avent products, the gro egg was free because of the 3 for 2 offer and I have a 20% discount code for the steriliser knocking off a further £4.80

This lot cost £54.95

I got 590 boots points with this lot as well worth £5.90 :) 

Im always very careful to make sure I get the best over all price on things I want! While one item may be cheaper elsewhere it might not be on 3 for 2 or have other freebies or bonus points/ added extras with it!

Ok so the groegg might not have been an essential purchase, but ive always wanted one and decided to use the excuse of it will be free to the hubby lol :)

 This freebie is going to go in my hospital bag

Next trip to the till

Mam soothers £4.75

Tommee Tippee Disposible breast pads - £4.09

Huggies New born starter kit - £5 

These newborn starter kits are fantastic value for money, they come with a packet of newborn nappies, a packet of wipes and they have started to come with some cotton soft sheets. (Wipes not pictured as I pinched the wipes out of these boxes for Logans sticky fingers, and I plan on using Johnsons wipes for baby to start with). Even better, inside the box their is some discount vouchers one for £2 off new born huggies (which you can use against this box) and 1 for £1 of huggies wipes - which im keeping stocked up for next time they are on offer for £1 at boots or in a local shop.

This lot cost me a total of £7.75 as I had one of the £2 vouchers off huggies from a previous box i had bought, and the breast pads were free in the 3 for 2 offer

I also got a further 90 points on my boots card worth 90p :)

Final trip to the till

I decided to spend the boots points I had just earned from my shopping to stock up on Johnsons wipes

I managed to get 6 packs for FREE using my points :)

(I could have got 7 packs if the special box of 6 for £5 had been in but my boots never has stock of the bargain in for long - still cant complain at 6 packs for nothing :D)

 Total spend in boots £62.70 :D

On to my amazon spending lol :)

1st of all I was rather excited when I found the Fisher price Precious Planet bouncer was on offer on amazon for £14.99 so snapped it up very quickly! I already had £1.40 in my gift balance from an old competition win so it only cost me £13.59 :) Bargain - I got it at just the right time as well as its now gone back up to£36.95. When it arrived I was a tad over excited and rather than being sensible and leaving it in the box to save space until baby arrives of course I set it up straight away :) 

Its my favourite purchase for bump so far I love it :D

My 2nd amazon purchase is probably a little boring but a very much needed item that I had been planning on getting for a long time but never getting around to remembering to buy when I had the money. A pack of 2 crib sheets. for £8.99!




Maybe boring, but an essential purchase! 


In total I spent £85.28 this week, but I think I got a lot for my money and Im very happy with that :)


Im finally starting to feel like im nearly organised enough to have this baby :)


Ok maybe not quite organised enough, here is my stash of baby items that I have no where to put right now.


I really need to sort out a better storage plan lol :D

Funky Giraffe bibs & more review (part 1)

Funky Giraffe bibs & more review!

I have decided to do this review in 2 parts, one now to show my initial impression on the products and one later on when Dexter has arrives to show him in these goodies :)

We have recieved 2 bibs a hat and a body suit to try out.  

We have the following designs

Sky Rocket Vest

Blast off Bandana bib

Red Racing car Bandana bib

and Navy blue hat

The quality of all the products is fantastic, the 1st thing I noticed was how soft the back of the bibs are they are lined in a fleecey material that is lovely for baby :-) 

As you can see the bibs connect at the back of the neck using poppers.

I have noticed the design print is of very good quality. I wondered when I saw these how they would wash and if the design would wear off after a few washes but the quality of it tells me that it wont come off easily. Its not the cheap tshirt transer style that you some times see on products its a very high quality print, I have tried to get a close up photo so you can see how good the quality is but im not sure how well it shows :) 

The hat shape is quite different to what you see in the shops, it reminds me of elves :) and I look forward to trying it out with Dexter.

For the prices...

Initially when you look at the website and see the prices at £4 each for the bibs it could be easy to be put off, but funkygiraffe have a fantastic quantity discount that kicks in as soon as you add a 2nd bib to your basket. 

Here is a copy of the current price chart as you can see they work out much better value for pennies if you buy a few £2.20 each if you buy 5 or £2.05 each if you buy 10. There is a lot of fantastic designs so it is very easy to get 10 or even more in your basket.

The hats are priced at £4 and the vests at £8.

Postage is FREE in the UK which is also pretty fab.

I can quite easily see myself becoming a little bit of a funky bib addict when Dexter arrives. I am really looking forward to trying these out with him. I do love funky designs and so far I am very impressed with the quality.

Go and take a look at all the fab designs at Funkygiraffe and see what you like :)

(part 2 of this review to follow after Dexters arrival)