First things first, let’s get the big revelation out the way: I didn’t really watch Star Wars a child, it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I discovered Star Wars and whilst I wouldn’t describe myself as a fanatic, I love watching all the movies again and again and again!

Fast forward to Boo and she’s a fully fledged Star Wards Fan, we watch one of the movies at least once a month and she can often be found humming the imperial march! 😉 When Egmont got in touch to see if we’d like to get our hands on the two Where’s Wookiee books I just knew that Boo would love them. Having discovered my old Where’s Wally books from my childhood she was already familiar with the search and find model. Throw in a plethora of Wookiees and you’ve got yourself Stars Wars Heaven for a Wookiee loving Boo.

The books arrived along with the snuggliest of Wookiee onesies for us to recreate our own Where’s Wookiee – however as you can see the old adage of never working with children or animals couldn’t have been truer… The only time Boo made great efforts to hide where when she was showing me where Wookiee was!

The only time Boo made great efforts to hide where when she was showing me where Wookiee was!

Call me bias but I still think that that hunting a Wookiee on a weekend morning is one of the best things to… especially when they’re as cute as Boo.

If you’d like to get your hands on both the first and second Where’s Wookiee books then enter the competition below… good luck!

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It’s the first full week of the new school year and the reality of the routine has well and truly set in. This week marks the first week of all the extracurricular clubs. Somehow Boo’s managed to amass four (not too sure how) and each one is something Boo has taken an interest in. Today was her first after school football coaching session. She greeted me hot and sweaty and most importantly with a smile on her face. I may have committed the cardinal football mum sin of not getting her a football kit – spare PE kit anyone 😉 but as we walked home she explained why a sly tackle isn’t allowed and that she hopes to be able to master a rabona!

I mentioned a few weeks ago on social media that Boo was starting football club and the popular response I got was ‘Oooh never realised Boo was a tomboy, she’s such a girlie girl’ and the like. Boo isn’t a girlie girl or a tomboy she’s a girl; a child with enthusiasm and appetite for life and I can’t understand society’s need to pigeon hole her interests; and her gender shouldn’t define either what she likes or what she can achieve.

Boo is the girl who plays with Barbie while humming the imperial march – she isn’t a contradiction she’s a child and we need to spend less time attempting to justify children’s diversity and curiosity and more time nurturing their individuality.

The only pigeon holing I’m doing this evening is when it comes to cheese – Boo is most definitely no longer a fan of Babybel and only a cheese string will do! Oh and apparently after football Boo feels the need to recline on my bed while watching Aladdin… standard!

Football has joined the ranks of Boo’s extracurricular pursuits and is just another string in the bow of Boo’s quest to have it all.

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Jumping on the bed is one of those childhood pursuits that always seems like a good idea but if you’re anything like me you’d quickly remember that it was a bad idea as your Mum shouted up that “You’d better not be jumping on that bed!” Although I have to confess that whenever we check into a hotel one of the first things that Boo does is jump on the bed, and yes on occasion I have been known to join her!

To celebrate the launch of the new Virgin Kids App today, Virgin TV invited children of all ages to jump for joy on a 15 square metre bed outside Kings Cross Station, London.

The Virgin TV Kids app has been designed for children 3-7 and the first thing that impresses me is that’s it’s free from advertising, and other commercial influences including in-app purchases which helps to reassure parents that it’s a safe space for kids online. We got a chance to have a play with the app today and Boo was immediately drawn to the bright and easy to navigate interface and with over 2000 episodes of on demand kids TV, along with reading books and interactive games there’ll be no more 5am wake up calls on a weekend that can’t be entertained – yes I’m one of ‘those’ mamas who fully utilises the child-minding capabilities of an iPad while I snooze next to Boo!

It was also great to learn that TV shows can be downloaded to allow kids to watch them offline, such as on a plane or car journey.

As you can see Boo absolutely loved jumping on the gigantic bed, firstly she couldn’t get over just how big it was – I always thought my super king bed won in the size stakes but this was something else! Boo also couldn’t quite believe that I wasn’t shouting at her to stop jumping on the bed; although I did gently remind her on the way home that jumping on beds was only allowed when outside a train station – or in a hotel! 😉

The Virgin TV Kids app is available from today for all Virgin TV customers on the Fun and Full House bundles to download for free from the Apple App Store, and Google Play.

Disclosure: A travel fee was paid.