For the first time in a while the plague or some other similarly destructive illness has entered into the household. Of course the first one to be affected was the toddler Little Miss - and she was the most likely one to bring it into the house.

Not to be out done Usurper (the baby that occasionally rates a mention here) has quickly followed suit and has the same disease. And I don’t care how cute babies are, no one can be cute with two rivers of snot running out their nose. Well, maybe I can, but then again I’m special

With both of the offspring being contagious it was only a matter of time before Wife joined the party. And there is nothing quite as special as Wife when she is sick. She has a knack of going out of her way to prove that she isn’t that sick by doing more things and pushing herself harder than she normally does. This has a lovely flow on effect of making her even crankier (I can say she is cranky as she says it often on her own blog) than being married to me normally makes her. She also pushes herself to the point of collapse hence ensuring she is ill for as long as possible.

Hmmm. That’ll be her on the phone now I am guessing pointing out that it may be Valentines Day today but that I needn’t bother rushing home from work as she just read what I typed.

Happy Valentines Day sweety - to both you and your two lovely gifts to me (that was actually a sincere thought - don’t let it throw you, I promise not to make a habit out of it).

So that is life here now, sickness and tantrums. But there have been a couple of highlights of late:

The toddler deciding that the whammy bar on the guitar controller for Guitar Hero 3 is actually a microphone and she would help Daddy by singing into it while I played the Sex Pistols ‘Anarchy in the UK’. This included the made up, but quite memorable lyrics of ‘I Loooove you….. Love you in the Morning………..bloody bloody bloody!!!!!!!!’. I think she has talent.

The toddler showing us her ‘new trick’ of how she can walk while holding toilet paper between her butt cheeks making a ‘tail’. It wasn’t that gross as it was all clean, and it was so funny that I snorted coffee out my nose, but I hope it was a one shot deal as it has the potential to be a real stuff up one day.

Usurper also has a new trick - she likes to pull the little fold up table that sits beside me in the lounge room down with a bang so that it all collapses around her. She then giggles uproariously as I marvel at how nothing actually hit her.

Even I have a new trick, I am learning when is the right time to shut my damn fool mouth - Wife has promised to inform me when I have mastered it, somehow I think my report card today will not be that glowing