Tomorrow is the first day back at preschool after a fun filled Easter break and Sammy has already started saying he doesn't want to go back! I can understand that after days full of games, treats and chocolate over Easter, that this holiday has been much more appealing than routine! 

But I have to get back to my own work routine instead of fielding emails ​and shoe horning calls into a day with the boys.

So we have been reading a favourite book all about going to school and he has a monkey lunch to enjoy!​

Books are great inspiration for Bento ideas.

Featured in this Bento Babies monkey box (I got the box in Asda for £1) :​

• ​Yoghurt covered dried apricot
• Cinnamon bear crackers
• ​Cheese spread wraps cut into mini rolls
• Cocktail sausages
• Red grapes
• Strawberry fruit sticks
• Fruit jellies
• Animal biscuits
• Lemon mini muffin cake

Have you tried making any Bento creations? I would love to see them and share all our ideas to help get all our little and big ones trying new things and old!

Link them up here and I will also be adding them to the Bento Babies Pinterest Board.​

You can link up anything that you have posted on the web. A blog post, Facebook or Twitter picture. ​ Just add the url link (the text that appears in your browser bar). I can't wait to see! If you have any questions just ask away!

I have been visiting Moors Valley ​Country Park and Forest since I was as young as Ollie.

Every time we walk along the woodland trails it brings back wonderful childhood memories and ​I love that our boys are making their own memories on the same wooden spider web!

If you get a chance to visit, even for an hour - go! ​We only had time for the play trail as we were on route home to Weston, but you could actually spend a whole day here for just the cost of the parking.

Ollie is normally a complete Daddy's boy but on Easter Monday he was like my little shadow. It was adorable listening to him babble away as we walked hand in hand. I managed to take some lovely snaps of him too - normally Sammy tends to be the star of the show! 

Happy times. Have a lovely weekend everyone.​

My sister is 39 weeks pregnant and at 37 weeks was told by her midwife that her baby was lying in a rare position. Only 1% of babies decide to get comfy in the transverse breech position (think an upright Buddha cross legged pose) ​and my sister has been desperate for the baby to turn naturally.

With only 3 months of maternity leave from full time work she is hoping for a nice quick water birth and just one night in hospital so that she can make the absolute most of her time at home without the added pressure of recovering herself from a caesarian. 

She has tried everything! Bouncing around on a birthing ball, leaning over the kitchen table doing hours of jigsaw puzzles and even a number of handstands in the swimming pool!​

We did some good walks over the Easter weekend too down at Southbourne and on the Saturday afternoon we tried out the principle of Spinning Babies, to try and map the babies fetal positioning.​

Lie flat on the floor, take a piece of paper and draw an oval shape.​

Divide the oval into quarters for the 4 areas of your tummy!​

Use your hands as well as the Mummy to be's feelings, to mark on the paper the different lumps and bumps you can feel. If you ​feel hiccups mark them as well as a heart shape if you know where the heartbeat was last heard.

​It's a great way to use your senses to get an understanding of where the baby is lying as well as giving the Daddy to be a chance to really feel the baby's movements and get their opinion.

​So that was how their map turned out. Showing that the baby has indeed turned by itself! All slightly sceptical but thinking positive, we headed to the hospital at Frimley in Surrey yesterday afternoon for her scan and potential turning appointment. Sure enough, within 20 minutes they were sent away with smiles like Cheshire cats! 

The baby is head down and 4/5th's engaged! ​

The map was right!​

Now we just have to wait..... and we are quite an impatient family, this is going to be a long week! ​