The Scamp Baby Gifts Blog

Hair Do

Not one to shy away from excess Ava and her friend did each others hair today as they played after school … I think the look they were going for tonight was not for any minimalists out there

Yay it's pancake day

the kids LOVE pancakes so couldn’t quite believe their ears when I told them that they could have them for their dinner tonight.  to celebrate this momentous occasion Ava made a poster expressing her delight!

The Great Ship Blue Peter

Blue Peter, that great bastion of British Children’s Television … during the 1980s there wouldn’t have been one Christmas Card of theirs I didn’t make or one craft project I didn’t try.  The pinnacle of amazingness for Blue Peter fans was your ability to get into various (although in reality probably very few) places for free if you were one of the chosen few owners of a Blue Peter Badge.  I only ever remember the Jorvic Viking Centre being one of those most special of places but I’m sure there was at least one more.  Imagine my joy when I re-found my very own Blue Peter Badge tonight.  Received because I wrote to tell the team of the Octocentenary Celebrations my home town were having (I was only about 12 so please don’t laugh).  I’m already struggling to curb my excitement about the adventures I will be having when I attempt to flash the badge at every national museum and venue I can in the very near future.  Now, where’s Janet Ellis?

Dens

After the excitement of multiple cousins visiting this half term week come 1pm this afternoon it was only Ava and Jonah left to fend for themselves. This could go either way … lots of good playing is possible but the potential for it to go pear shaped with two tired kids was ominously close.  Cue Den Building – a home for dollies and teddies for one little lady and a dragons castle (or something along those lines) for a little man.  5 sheets, 20 pegs and lots of imagination = an argument free afternoon … RESULT!

Penguin Pool

this photo was taken on the 3rd visit (this week) to the zoo with the Leeds cousins and fellow Scampettes.  I absolutely love the Penguin Pool at the zoo – it’s Grade I listed so a rather special place – not sure if the penguins ever thought that though.

I take no credit for writing the next paragraph – straight from the ZSL website …

“The Penguin Pool is perhaps the most famous building in the Zoo. Like the Round House, it was designed by the influential Tecton architectural firm, led by Russian emigre Berthold Lubetkin. Tecton’s brand of Modernist style was unusually elegant and playful and is a reminder of how innovative the style must have looked when it first appeared”

office shots

Today was a bit of a crazy one.   Stacey and I have been chosen to be filmed for a pilot for one of the terrestrial channels about Home Businesses … the lovely Coco and her camera came today and took lots of shots of us (and the five kids) as we tried to chat to her coherently about Scamp, working from home, our business aspirations and being sisters.  Not easy when you have semi naked 3-6 year olds racing around the living room whilst you are trying to talk!  However this is a very true to life reflection of both our attempts at balancing running a business and keeping your family life sane at the same time … not the easiest of juggles but our reality.