"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail."

In keeping with my recent post about boys and pink, Opeie being the glamour queen that he is, on a recent trip to asda he took an instant shine to a pair of wellies. They have some great Spider-man wellies in at the moment, they even have some great Avengers wellies in too. Opeie being Opeie though decided on something a little different. i think he wants to be a bit more cutting edge. Plus... (if you remember the post) it may be because they will go nicely with his pearls?! Ive said it many times before, it's all about accessorising!

Opeie wore them out of Asda and barely took them off for the next two days. It was so cute watching him all excited running around wearing them. In fact for the first two days he fell asleep wearing them. (i wish i had got a picture of him for the post).

There was an incident last week when he wore his new fancy boots to Birmingham and we realised one was missing as he was in the baby carrier. Luckily i didn't have to follow my tracks to far to find poor Peppa lying by the side of the road.

 

I really love that he picked pink wellies, he's so much like me. Id love to wear more pink but as Ive got older Ive definitely become more reserved. It may not be the way a lot of dad's would be but i will always encourage him to wear the things that he wants to wear and anyway i think he look fabulous!!

"Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!"

Hello, It's Mrs M again!!!

I wanted to write a quick blog about an amazing offer I found on Lego, Duplo kits & brick sets yesterday! Boots are doing Lego Sets 3 for 2 at the moment, which is really good value! The 3 for 2 actually spans over lots of brands of toys and is a real money saver for Christmas!

I have been saving my Boots advantage points for ages, and I was also given quite a few thousand extra a few months back for being a loyal Boots customer, so I thought i'd put them to good use and buy some bits of Lego for the boys and Papa as Pauly has been wanting some for a while!

I bought 6 boxes of Lego using my Boots points, which in total cost me £0! A brilliant bargain!

 I think Opeie loves Boots as much as me!

The 3 for 2 lego! We also bought a box of blue lego for Seth for Christmas... Pauly said he wanted to start collecting the Pink Lego because he really loved the blue, green, purple and orange shades you get within the boxes... I totaly agree , the colours are beautiful and it is really lovely to look at visually!

I decided to treat Opeie to a couple of boxes of Duplo with my Boots Advantage Points, as he only had a really small collection of Duplo, about 30 bricks, and it was hard to make and build something with a very limited amount. So these are technically part of Opeies Christmas presents , but he's had it early.

The boxes are clever as the lids click tight on, and you can stack them perfectly too.

Opeie really loves playing with bricks and I think he finds the Duplo easier due to the size.

The boys had fun playing today and made a very colourful house for their Duplo bunnies.

 As I said before I love the colours of Lego bricks, and the Pink brick boxes are really lovely. Pauly being a big fan of green & pink combos is really in his eliment.... when we popped into Toys R Us earlier to pick up The Sun's free Lego Offer the store manager said he'd been to the Manchester Lego shop & how amazing it was.... apparently you can make Christmas baubles there & fill buckets with bricks of your choice! I think we will be going there at some point soon......

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

We bring the boys up to be as open minded as we can, well Opeie doesn't really understand but we try our hardest with Seth. Unfortunately outside influences are damaging our good work. Last week while we were in Toys R Us Opeie picked up a Toy Story Barbie doll and Seth said those words i hoped i would never hear come from his mouth 'Opeie you cant play with that, those are for girls'. That's what starting school does to you i guess, Seth instantly became that little more Macho. I took Opeie to Toys R Us about 6 months ago and he picked a doll to take home which personally i thought was really nice. There's loads of action figures in our house and for him to choose a doll over his beloved Spider-man was really sweet and showed us that he's not growing up to quickly (which I'm sure makes Mrs M very happy).

Changing the subject completely, although we will come back to where i started, Opeie has become a nightmare with his feeding. He's going through an 'i don't want to eat, bath or brush my teeth phase' everything seems to just send him into floods of tears so we thought we would change around his plates and bowls etc to see if that might spur on some proper eating. I was so impressed with the I Monster range from Nuby when i wrote my last post about Opeie's eating habits that i decided to give the flower child range a try, this was also spurred on by Seth's macho comment (told you I'd find my way back to the start).

The great thing about this range for us is that as you know if you've been reading the blog a while Opeie loves Yo Gabba Gabba, in fact we all like it and the range looks a little like Foofa which Opeie loves. She's a flower child herself...

 The plates went down great. He didn't eat loads but the fact that he ate some if his food today was a bonus and means Mrs M can rest that little bit easier. It can be a little worrying when he just refuses to eat anything but he is still milking Mrs M dry so at least we know he's getting his nutrients. 

I did actually prefer this range over the I Monster range, first and foremost because I'm a sucker for anything pink, but also because of the soft rubber around the base. When eating with the I monster range if Opeie was in an excitable mood meal time would turn into a mini game of air hockey.

Thank fully we didn't hear a peep out of Seth about them being girly`and hopefully after me talking to him we wont hear anything like that for a while at least. I think its really important to let your children play with what they want in terms of colour etc. There's no need for macho behaviour when it comes to your toddler, their going to go for things that are bright and colourful, i still do myself. If Opeie wants to play with dolls, wear mommy's shoes, push a pushchair around or have a tea party with his toys then obviously I'm going to join in with him

We tried the Flower child feeder too as i loved the monster one that we had brought. It had lost the Flash Gordon feel (if you remember my previous post) but Opeie loved it just as much. I think that anything that he has to push his hand in to find out whats inside is going to be a winner.

Im really impressed with the whole range and would definitely advise people to give them a try. I still looking for some tableware with suckers on the bottom to try so i will be keeping them peeled for them. If you have any idea's then please let me know. I'm sure there will be many more post's about Opeie's eating. He's now starting to use cutlery more so I'm sure thats a post ill be writing soon.

Now its time for me to try and get Seth wearing something pink...