Well we finally achieved it. After several practice runs to the emergency rooms over the past couple of years we finally made the big time and got checked in to the wards.
Little Miss managed to run some pretty good temperatures and got to spend two nights in the hospital attached to a drip and all the rest of it. She is fine now and has been checked out without a clear indication of what it was - at least we know it wasn’t life threatening. So let’s call it a virus shall we?
About the only thing that was life threatening was the meltdown she had on the second day. It was such an act of cut off your nose to spite your face defiance that it even prompted the paediatrician to comment on it to Wife during rounds the next day. You know when a paediatrician of 40 years comments on the hissyfit of your child that it is world class.
Ahhh, our high strung little angel - it is going to be a very long couple of years.

Now, as for the youngest one the terrible twos are almost upon us. As with most things involving you you are hitting them a little early, also as with most things you are involved with you are doing them in an extra cute way that makes it hard not to laugh when you go off the deep end about whatever it may be. I especially like tantrums that involve our up until now mini tomboy insisting that she be allowed to wear a ‘pretty dress’. Of course she then wants to play in the mud in it - torn between cute and evil that she is. Why do I get the feeling that you are both going to confuse many a boy, and break many a heart in your life - all without so much as a backward glance or any knowledge of what is happening. I look forward to mocking all those boy ‘friends’ who hang around in the misguided belief that it may develop into something else.

You are both soooooo like your mother, just in VERY different ways……….