One of the most adorable and endearing things about toddlers is their complete honesty, the lack of pretense, the way they are lost in the moment.
Of course as with anything that is extremely adorable and cute it can be a double edged sword and can cut you to the core. Luckily for me I was […]

Do you ever get the feeling that one of your main roles as a parent is to just try and not completely screw up your kids?
More and more I am coming to the reluctant conclusion that this is a major part of being a parent. Sure you have to teach them the skills needed to […]

It would appear in our toddlers fantasy world that I have been assigned the non de plume of B2. That’s right, even in a fantasy world, I have been relegated to ’second banana’ in the Banana’s in Pyjamas dichotomy. You see she has started making up little fantasy games in which we are the two […]

Today it happened, one of those milestones I have been dreading as a parent, Little Miss put on her fairy dress and demanded we sit and watch as she put on a ’show’.
I have to be honest and say that for someone so insistent that we watch her show, it turned out to be quite […]

I have looked back over the posts in this blog and apart from being struck by just how appalling my typing and grammar is at times one other thing has struck me, and that is how focused the entries have been on Little Miss the toddler and not Usurper the baby. This ot me thinking […]